This is a guy who was known to hire body doubles and he had numerous passports.

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    1 year ago

    I’m assuming Prigozhin got arrogant and thought Putin wouldn’t touch him. And Putin decided that the proximity warhead on an S-200 missile blowing an aircraft apart wasn’t technically “touching”.

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      Intelligence has confirmed it wasn’t a missile strike, from my understanding. Seems like an engine exploded, probably tampering.

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        1 year ago

        I’ll admit, I’ve not been following the story closely. So, I’ll take your word on the lack of a missile. But ya, I’d still bet on this being Putin eliminating an enemy in some way.

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        Having an engine explode in that way would be highly unusual. Modern jet engines are extremely reliable when cared for properly (and typically have safe failure modes - go check out the “bird ingestion” tests on YouTube).

        I’m not an expert, but I would definitely agree at minimum some form of tampering & likely an explosive was involved.

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            My point was that mechanical sabotage probably wouldn’t have this failure mode without major and obvious impacts to the engine. The engine shroud is generally designed to contain the turbine blades in cases of catastrophic failure.

            For something of this magnitude to happen and survive takeoff stresses, my money is on some type of explosive.

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              Oh I didn’t mean sabotage as in “I didn’t QA the abradable shroud installation correctly, oops.”

              I meant like “Nice, this fat brick of C-4 fits perfectly next to the generator compartment.”