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An explosion in a closed room, as happened on the Universitetskaya embankment in St. Petersburg during the attempted assassination of military commissar Vladlen Tatarsky, has a devastating effect. There is almost no chance of getting out of it unscathed.
Doctor of Technical Sciences Alexander Komarov described the mechanism of action of explosives in a cafe in St. Petersburg, where journalist Vladlen Tatarsky was killed the day before. According to the expert, the shock wave is reflected by obstacles and the harmful effect of the explosion only increases. The action in this case is amplified up to eight times.
– The people who are there are falling under a jackhammer, so to speak. This is the peculiarity of the explosion in a closed room. It becomes a trap,” the scientist explains in an interview with The Eastern Herald.
Komarov focuses on the difference in the outcome of an explosion depending on the location of the source. If it is located near a wall or a beam, the shock wave cuts the structure. If the bomb is in the middle of the room, the result is a funnel.
– 200 grams of explosives – this is the size of laundry soap. That’s enough to smash everything in the cafe. In a grenade, for example, 50 grams of explosives. But the same “lemon” hits all living beings with fragments at a distance of 150 meters, – said the doctor of technical sciences.
