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getagrip_already

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14. My guess is it was a boat bomb of some kind....

Reply to csziggy (Reply #9)

Sun Oct 9, 2022, 01:33 PM

Oct 2022

You can get thousands of kg of high explosives into even a small boat.

Semi submerged and running with the tide it could come in very quietly and unseen.

If Russia deploys sub netting, that will be a clue.

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