Originally Posted by
etudiant
Trouble is that with the site so open, someone could drop in a few HIMARS fragments and make a big deal of it.
If there is no crater, they would presumably say it was a new air-blast type, but somehow configured to leave the walls standing with the roof on. ORAC's comment on the torpedo is particularly prescient and appropriate. One has the feeling that the Russians on the spot are desperate and capable of any level of stupidity.