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Main Missile and Artillery Directorate [GRAU]

The chiefs of the Red Army Artillery management
Corps Commander G. Kulik	1926	1929
Corps Commander N. Efimov	1931	05/22/1937
Corps Commander G. Kulik	23.5.1937	Jan 1939
Divisional Commander G.K.Savchenko	Jan 1939	07/13/1940
Chief of GAU Red Army and the Soviet Army
Marshal G. Kulik	07.13.1940	06.14.1941
Marshal of Artillery NN D. Yakovlev	6/14/1941	1948
Colonel-General of Artillery M. Nedelin	1948	1950
Colonel General of artillery I. Volkotrubenko VI	1950	1952
Chief Marshal of Artillery C. Varentsov C.	1952	1955
Colonel General of artillery Nikolai Zhdanov	1955	1965
Marshal of Artillery P. Kuleshov	1965	1983
The chiefs of the Russian Defense Ministry GRAU
Lieutenant-General Yu M. Lazarev
Colonel-General Yu M. Andrianov
Colonel-General M. E. Penquin	1984	1991
Colonel-General A. P. Sitnov	1991	1994
Colonel-General Nikolai Sentries VI	1994	2000
Colonel-General Nikolai Svertilov	2000	2007
Major General O. S. Chikirev	2007	2009
Major General A. B. Kochkin, Vreede Head	11.2009	08.2010
Major General A. L. Romanovsky	08.2010	08.2012
Lieutenant-General N. M. Parshin	08.2012	05.2024
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The primary tasks of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (GRAU) are planning and organization of the Armed Forces armament, military equipment and other materiel for fixed nomenclature; and improving the organization of the elements of the missile-technical (RTO) and Artillery Support (APTT) and coordination of military control bodies on the PTO and APTT.

It is responsible for the organization of the development, production islands, operation, storage and maintenance of assigned weapons, equipment, and other military property. This includes the operational cycle of tactical rockets, complexes, anti-tank systems, military air defense missile system, MLRS, tank weapons, close combat weapons, ammunition, means of automation and electronic warfare.

GRAU is the central body of military control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, engaged in the organization of rocket-technical and ordnance logistics (PTO and ATO) troops, the general contractor and fund holder of rocket and artillery weapons (PAB), the central contentment authority of the Armed Forces, other troops, military formations and bodies of the Russian Federation assigned to the nomenclature and it reports directly to the Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Main Missile and Artillery Directorate, in the performance of tasks assigned to it, interacts with the central bodies of military command of the Armed Forces, military district administrations, as well as in the prescribed manner with other troops, military formations and bodies. GRAU consists of a command headquarters, departments, independent departments and services. The organizational structure is defined by the Main Directorate of the Defence Minister of the Russian Federation, and his staff approved by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

According to the Regulation of the Main Rocket Artillery Directorate of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation dated 26 May 2003, the main tasks of the Main Department on peace and war are: the organization and conclusion of contracts (agreements) for the supply and repair of weapons and military equipment; organization of assembly and repair of ammunition, maintenance work with rockets and anti-tank guided missiles in the arsenals and bases; organization of maintenance of a stock of weapons, missiles and ammunition arsenals, bases and warehouses of the Main Department, keeping them in a state of combat readiness and recycling; the organization works to ensure the vitality and explosion and fire arsenals, depots and warehouses, its protection and defense; measures aimed at ensuring the rule of law, maintaining military and work discipline, safety and working conditions of military service and other civilian personnel.

General Directorate headed by the Chief of the Main Missile Artillery Directorate of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation, which reports directly to the Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Head of the Main Department is responsible for: combat and mobilization readiness, industrial, financial and economic activities, the organization of educational process and educational work, the state of the military and labor discipline, service troops and military service safety, training and education of his subordinate personnel of the General Administration, subordinate military units ; martial, social legal, financial, technical and logistical support of servicemen and civilian personnel of the Main Department of subordinate military units; the tasks entrusted to the General Directorate; implementation of a unified military and technical policy in the field of the PTO and the ATO of the Armed Forces; organization development of normative legal base of the PTO and ATO, regulatory and technical documentation on matters within the responsibility of the PAB, norms of consumption of material resources for technical maintenance and repair in the Armed Forces; manage funds under the responsibility of the General Management.

Organizational rocket forces consist of the units of the operational tactical and tactical missiles, and rocket artillery. The artillery consists of units of howitzer, cannon, rocket, antitank artillery, anti-tank missiles, mortars, as well as units of artillery reconnaissance, control and support.

Missile Forces and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation organizational include:

• Missile troops and artillery of the Land Forces;
• Air paratroop artillery;
• Missile troops and artillery coastal forces of the Navy;
• Military schools and military units of direct subordination.

Artillery weapons systems and spare parts were manufactured by companies in Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm ("Castle," "The Hurricane," "Twister"), Podolsk and other cities. Small arms came from internationally known Izhevsk, Carpet, Tula (automatic AK-74, sniper rifle SVD, a grenade launcher AGS "Flame", smoothbore weapon), Vyatskiye Polyany. Development of a unique small arms is conducted in Klimovsk.

Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Defense Ministry of Russia and the service missile and artillery military districts (fleets) are paying the most attention to the work on improving the system of rocket and artillery technical and logistical support troops. In particular, in the framework of the action plan to optimize the storage of stocks of rockets, ammunition and explosive materials, GRAU and service RAV military districts strictly monitored reduction of arsenals and ammunition depot hazards.

Russian occupiers will face an even greater shortage of ammunition after the Defense Forces' strikes on the BC depots in Crimea and on the territory of the Russian Federation. This was stated by the head of the Estonian Defense Forces' intelligence center, Colonel Ants Kiviselg, ERR reported 11 October 2024. “Attacks on Russian military depots will most likely continue, which will further exacerbate the shortage of Russian ammunition,” he noted. Kiviselg also added that Russian units in Ukraine have been ordered to speed up the pace of fighting in order to achieve tactical goals before the onset of the "mud season." The occupiers will try to isolate Kurakhovo and Selidovo in the Donetsk region, as well as strengthen the captured positions in the Ugledar district. https://www.google.com/maps/place/@46.4893036,38.2690634,2477m">Oktyabr'skii, Krasnodar Krai Oktyabrsky, Yeysky District, Krasnodar Krai 46°29'N 38°17'E On October 9, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that they had struck warehouses near Yeisk and added that they were used to store Shahed drones, which the Russian Federation forces regularly launch over Ukraine. The General Staff reported that about 400 attack drones were stored there. "According to the results of objective control, an accurate hit on the target was recorded. Secondary detonation was observed on the territory of the facility," the agency added. Explosions lasted for hours after Ukrainian troops hit the ammunition depot. A local Yeysk Telegram channel claimed the attack was a regular fire: "There have been no incoming flights. Please don't panic! It's just a fire, gas cylinders exploding," it wrote (https://t.me/novosti_yeisk/18692). The inept attempts to present the ammunition's secondary detonations after the Ukrainian attacks as gas cylinder explosions have been made several times before. Satellite images of warehouses with "Shaheds" near Yeysk in the Krasnodar region of Russia, hit by Ukrainian drones, were published online 11 October 2024. The photo was published by Schemes (Radio Liberty). The photo from Planet Labs is reported to have been taken on October 11. As noted by "Schemes", the satellite image " show the consequences of the attack of Ukrainian drones on warehouses in the Krasnodar region of Russia - damaged buildings, including the roof, and traces of a fire," the report said. The destruction of this base is expected to significantly diminish Russia’s capacity to deploy drones against civilians in Ukrainian cities and villages, the General Staff believed. The target was warehouses near a village identified as Oktyabrsky, according to the General Staff. Oktyabrsky is just 140 miles from the front line in eastern Ukraine. On October 9, Russian media reported explosions after a UAV attack in the Oktyabrsky district to the south of Yeysk in Krasnodar Krai, which is home to a Russian Naval Aviation airbase. The name Krasnodar means "The Gift of the Reds" or "Beautiful Gift". Not surpsingly, there are many patriotic placenames to be found here: Krasnoarmeiskoe; Krasnoflotskii; Komsomolets; Bol'shevik; Sovetskii, and so on The Russian word Oktyabrsky means "of October" and is often associated with the October Revolution of 1917. The feminine form of the surname is Oktyabrskaya or Oktyabrskaia. Oktyabrsky is the name of many dozens of districts and city districts in Russia, including: the urban-type settlement in Arkhangelsk Oblast founded in 1951 after the construction of a timber logging camp; or the urban locality and administrative center of Oktyabrsky District in Perm Krai. Probaby the most well known is the city of Oktyabrsky located in the west of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 180 kilometers from the capital - the city of Ufa, on the border with the Republic of Tatarstan. Oktyabrsky is the 5th largest city in Bashkortostan. As of 2012, nine rural localities in Altai Krai bear this name, for instance. As of 2012, twenty rural localities in Krasnodar Krai bear this name. On is Oktyabrsky, Yeysky District, Krasnodar Krai, a settlement in Yeysky Rural Okrug of Yeysky District. On 13 November 2009 a detonation during munitions disposal operations caused a series of explosions at the 31st Arsenal GRAU ammunition storage depot reportedly storing artillery munitions and torpedoes on the outskirts of Ulyanovsk, a city approximately 550 miles (900km) southeast of Moscow. The explosions, which lasted several hours, also forced the evacuation of over 3,000 nearby inhabitants. Reports of casualties varied, but at least two military firefighters were killed with an undetermined number injured as a result of the accident. Eight additional Russian bomb disposal personnel were killed and two others injured in a new explosion at the depot during clean-up operations. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for the dismissal of several high-ranking military officials for "criminal negligence."

http://karachev32.ru/">Our Karachev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS3hea5bA1U">Ukrainian Drones Hit Another Russian Ammo Depot! This One In Karachev, Bryansk Suchomimus https://www.google.com/maps/place/@53.1437921,34.9401957,2158m/">Sadovyy Uchastok, Karachev, Bryansk Oblast, Russia

Unit 55443 67th GRAU Arsenal - Karachev, Bryansk

Ukraine’s counteroffensive operations continue to target critical Russian infrastructure. Most recently, a Ukrainian drone attack hit the 67th GRAU military arsenal located in Karachev, Bryansk region. The GRAU (Main Missile and Artillery Directorate) warehouse in Russia is a specialized warehouse where ammunition, military materials and equipment are stored. This massive depot, covering approximately 3.5 square kilometers, stored significant amounts of military equipment, including munitions reportedly supplied by North Korea. The strike on the warehouse took place on the morning of October 9, 2024, and according to official sources, 12 strike drones were involved in the attack. The attack was carried out by units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces. According to the Ukrainian command, a significant portion of the ammunition was located in the open air. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted "Tonight, units of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces, inflicted fire damage on the 67th arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, located in the Bryansk region. "According to available information, ammunition for missile and artillery weapons, including those that came from the DPRK, as well as guided aerial bombs, were stored on the territory of the warehouse. A significant part of them was located under the open sky. "Explosions were recorded on the territory of the object. It is known that the local authorities have blocked the road in the area of the arsenal. The results of combat work are being clarified. "Damage to such arsenals creates serious logistical problems for the Russian army, which significantly reduces the offensive potential of the occupiers in threatening directions." In the morning, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that they had allegedly prevented attempts by the "Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type UAVs." "The air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 47 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. 24 UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Bryansk region, 5 UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region, 2 UAVs in the Kursk and Rostov regions, one in the Krasnodar region and 13 over the waters of the Sea of Azov," the report from the Russian terrorist agency says. The Russian authorities traditionally hide the incident at the GRAU warehouse. The Emergencies Ministry's report reported "a municipal incident due to the detonation of explosive objects." However, no one is officially talking about a drone attack on the ammunition storage facility . Military journalist Andrei Tsaplienko reported : "The 67th arsenal of the GRAU, Karachev, Bryansk region heroically "shot down" all the drones tonight. But for some reason, it itself began to detonate". Bryansk Region Governor Alexander Bogomaz stated that the air defense of the aggressor country, the Russian Federation, allegedly shot down 24 UAVs in the region. Explosions erupted following the strike, and the detonations showed no signs of stopping. Russian authorities claimed that 12 drones used in the attack were shot down, yet reports from the scene suggest that the situation remains out of control. Telegram channels, citing reports from local residents , report that Ukrainian drones have attacked an ammunition depot located near the city of Karachev in the Bryansk region. Videos circulating on social media show a glow and sounds similar to explosions. This ammunition depot is considered a key component of Russia’s war logistics, and the ongoing detonations could have long-lasting effects. While local sources have not confirmed any civilian casualties yet, the impact on Russian military operations is expected to be significant. The military warehouse is located close to a 20,000-strong settlement. There is no information yet about the evacuation of local residents. Z-channels write that, according to satellite images from 2021, some of the ammunition in this warehouse was stored in the open air. Near the city of Karachev in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, the 67th GRAU arsenal, closest to the front line, was hit. The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, Andrey Kovalenko, reported this on the Telegram channel, Censor.NET reports . According to him, it is located only 114 km from the border with Ukraine. "The warehouse contained ammunition, including from the DPRK, as well as KABs. I would like to note that some of them were stored in the open air," Kovalenko writes. The ASTRA Telegram channel has published footage that it claims confirms a fire at an ammunition depot. Near the city of Karachev in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, the 67th GRAU arsenal, closest to the front line, was hit. "Local residents write that the siren sounded from two o'clock in the morning, but there was nowhere to hide. Russian authorities have not yet commented on the information," the report says. ASTRA also publishes screenshots from local Telegram channels where Russians discuss the explosions. According to the Telegram channel " Nikolaevsky Vanek ", the "bavovna" at the GRAU BC warehouse was carried out by fighters from the 14th separate BpAK regiment. "An unknown number of aircraft were used under the code name "Vanya" (I didn't name it, by the way)," the channel's author noted. Google Earth labels this facility as "Sadovyy Uchastok" [garden plot]. A summer cottage and a garden plot are two completely different concepts, despite the fact that many people consider them synonyms. A summer cottage is a plot of land intended for recreation and resort living in the summer, usually with a cozy house or cottage. A garden plot , on the other hand, is primarily intended for gardening and growing vegetables, fruits and flowers. There is usually no house or cottage, only garden buildings such as vegetable garden sheds, hothouses or greenhouses. Usually, a summer cottage belongs to an individual or a family who use it for their personal needs. This form of ownership can be either private property or leased. The garden plot is part of a collective gardening community, where each owner has his own plot but shares common resources such as roads, infrastructure and services. A garden plot is usually intended for professional activity or farming. It can be used to grow food products for subsequent sale or use in the restaurant industry. The city of Karachev is located in the Bryansk region . It is the easternmost city in the Bryansk region. Distance to the city center of Bryansk on the map - 43 km (to the west). Distance on quality roads - 51 km. Railway station Karachev. Railway lines Smolensk - Anapa, Smolensk - Simferopol, Bryansk - Orel. Situated on the eastern edge of the Central Russian Upland, on the Snezhet River (a tributary of the Desna). Karachev is the center of the municipal district - “ Karachevsky municipal district ”. Karachev forms an urban settlement - "Karachevskoye". The population of the urban settlement is 23.2 thousand people. Karachev is one of the oldest Russian cities; mentioned in the chronicles under 1146. Since 1246, Karachev became the main city of a special appanage. In the 14th century, it passed to Lithuania. During the era of impostors, Karachev, like other cities of the Desnovye region, surrendered to the rebels. In 1654, half of the inhabitants died of a plague; in 1662, there was a raid by the Crimean Tatars. Since 1778, Karachev has been a district town in the Oryol province. Situated on the right bank of the Snezhet River, on an elevated plateau along which the Oryol-Vitebsk railway runs. Spring water was brought to the city from beyond the 10th century. The name of the city (originally "Korachev") comes from the Slavic "korka" or "korch"; there is also a widespread version that "Karachev", if translated from Turkic, means "black forest", although this name of the city was established long before the Tatar-Mongol invasion. The second with one of the "Vyatichi princes named Korach, who founded a small feudal estate here." The third derives this name from the Old Russian "krchy", i.e. "blacksmith". The history of Karachev is inseparable from the history of the struggle of the Russian people for the formation and strengthening of an independent state. The first mention of Karachev dates back to January 1147, when it was already a fairly significant city of the Seversk Principality. The city and its environs were repeatedly the scene of fierce battles between the troops of the Moscow state and Lithuania. The long-term struggle ended in 1503 with the annexation of Karachev to the Moscow state. The city became one of the links in the advanced fortified line of the Russian state in the fight against the Crimean Tatars. By the end of the 16th century, during the "Time of Troubles", the population of Karachev actively supported False Dmitry I, Bolotnikov, False Dmitry II. On December 1, 1618, the Deulino truce was concluded with Poland, according to which Karachev remained part of Russia. Since 1708, Karachev, as a district town, was part of the Kiev province, and since 1779 - of the Oryol province. In the 18th century, the city received its coat of arms: a shield, in the upper part of which, on a blue field, is a white city, on the triumphal gate of which is a black eagle with a golden crown, and in the lower part - in a silver field - a bunch of blossoming poppies. According to contemporaries, at the end of the 18th century, 2900 people lived in the city, rope and cable production was widely developed. The products of the hemp industry not only met the needs of the district, but were also exported beyond its borders. In 1894 the population was 16,888 (8,542 men and 8,346 women). There were 412 artisans, 766 workers, and 82 scientists. A total of 955 trade certificates were issued; including 164 to the 2nd guild and 556 to small traders. Two hospitals with 56 beds; a shelter for the poor; a boys' progymnasium, a girls' progymnasium, a teachers' seminary, a city college, a boys' parish college, and a girls' primary school; a committee of the Red Cross Society; a voluntary fire brigade; a drugstore; a chemist's shop. As early as 1855, intensive grain collection and the purchase of hemp, leather, butter and horses began here; but Karachev's trade did not achieve great development. Households with 1 horse were 31.59%, with 2 — 25.9%, with 3 — 11.56%, with 4 — 8.56%; without horses 22.39%. In the 1860-1870s, the first strikes of Karachev hemp rakers took place on economic grounds. On May 12, 1879, about one and a half thousand workers of Karachev took to the streets and demanded higher wages. The factory owners were scared to death by the workers' performances and satisfied their demands. On May 25, 1904, Oryol Governor-General Balyasny reported to the police department about a strike of 800 workers from the Karachev spinning factories. There was a danger that all the workers of Karachev (their total number in Karachev reached 5 thousand people) would join the strikers. In the first half of 1905, party organizations launched a broad political agitation among the masses. Leaflets were published by the Social Democrats of Bryansk, Karachev, and other cities. By the spring of 1905, the situation in the province had become so threatening that the provincial authorities were forced to issue an order stipulating that strikes and industrial action would be suppressed by armed force, and that those responsible for the unrest would be sentenced to hard labor for up to 8 years. The authorities actually carried out their threats: 10 infantry battalions, 4 cavalry squadrons, more than 10 hundred Cossacks, and a total of three infantry and cavalry regiments were sent to our region to combat the unrest. But neither threats nor repressions could stop the unrest that had begun. After the defeat of the revolution, a regime of cruel Stolypin reaction was established in the country. Punitive detachments operated in the villages. To improve the economy and ease the situation in the village, an agrarian reform was needed. Its author was the chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Stolypin. With the help of the reform, he wanted to strengthen the socio-economic base of tsarism in the village, to clear the way for the free development of capitalism in the village. To implement his plans, Stolypin decided to destroy the peasant community. Peasants were allowed to leave the community and separate into farmsteads and otrubas. But only wealthy peasants could do this. On 06 October 1941, the Germans captured Bryansk and cut the railroad, and in the evening their tanks and motorcyclists broke into Karachev. The Nazis marked the very first day in the captured city with mass murders of party and Soviet workers. The Germans began to establish a "new order" in the city. The former German surgeon Shepel turned out to be a traitor and executioner of the city. He knew many people in the city and gave the Germans lists of Soviet and party workers and members of their families and the families of the Red Army command staff. They shot them all. Right on the main street, the editor of the district newspaper "Na sotsialisticheskogo stroike" Nikanenok was shot. In front of the city residents, the fascist executioners tore apart Gorchakov, an employee of the Karachevsky city trade department, with tanks. The Nazis savagely mocked the director of the bakery Zyurin. Tortured and covered in blood, the fascist bandits threw him under the treads of a tank. A little later, the employee of the district financial department N. I. Zolotarev, the old communist, and disabled veteran of the civil war Dogomatsky were shot. During the 22 months of occupation, the German fascist bandits shot and hanged more than 1,000 people. Soviet partisans systematically destroyed enemy manpower and equipment, blew up railway and highway bridges, and mined roads. Already on October 14, 1941, in the area of ??the city of Karachev, a group of 8 partisans from this detachment attacked three German sentries guarding a building in which 100 captured Red Army soldiers were located; Having destroyed the sentries and the still sleeping German guards, the group freed all the captured Red Army soldiers. In a relatively short period of time, the partisans of this detachment derailed 4 enemy trains with equipment and enemy manpower, destroyed three locomotives, 36 carriages, 12 platforms, 311 German soldiers and officers; and 24 trucks. Beginning on August 5, 1943, the Nazi bandits began to destroy the city. All buildings were blown up by special teams, and what they did not manage to blow up was burned. Of the 1,850 houses in the city, no more than fifty remain at present, having survived by chance. Not a single enterprise, educational institution, theater, or club remained. During the occupation, the population was systematically taken away by the Germans to Germany. In May 1943, the entire population born between 1917 and 1926 was subjected to registration and medical examination, and all those deemed fit were taken away into slavery in Germany. During the retreat of the Germans, the remaining population was driven to Germany by force of arms, and only a few managed to escape the clutches of the German cannibals. Bryansk region is an active participant in the program to refuse foreign products. Moreover, the region provides itself with food, but also produces components for the Russian army. For example, the Karachev plant "Elektrodetal" produces unique electrical connectors for the Ministry of Defense. Over 50 years of its activity, the enterprise has displaced imported connectors by almost 70% and has become one of the monopolists in this area. The heating season started in Bryansk on October 9. The press service of the mayor's office reported on the date adjustment. The 2024 heating season was planned to start on October 11. However, according to updated information, the city started heating earlier. The decree on this was signed by the acting head of the city administration Ivan Kvasov. Traditionally, social facilities were the first to receive heat. Among them are schools, kindergartens and medical institutions. Then all boiler houses will be gradually turned on. This took a week. In April 2022 animal rights activists in Karachev were sounding the alarm. They are concerned about the fate of a malamute that was left without owners. The purebred dog was seen in the city center. Someone mistook it for a husky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcTzAkLxEVY">Satellite Imagery of Karachev Arsenal Hit by Drones Suchomimus observed the satellite imagery "it is a bit disappointing but still a successful strike. The facility isn't completely wiped off the map as we saw when Ukraine hit Toropetsk and Krasnodar. ... much of the facility does remain to be intact. However this was still a successful hit the area highlighted in red shows damage. This is very hard to make out because of the satellite imagery quality is poor. TG Kanal Oko Gora on telegram shared some red images which show it better... there are two impact markings and two destroyed hangers.... at the other locations we saw that Munitions were kept out in the open making it easy for the entire base to pretty much detonate in one big chain reaction of exploding missiles and rockets... if munitions weren't out to the open here and were all inside the warehouses then it would minimize the impact of Ukraine's drone strike. Another possibility is that the munitions were far less explosive than the missiles kept at those other facilities."