Black Raven Dragoons

[Zancarius]

This is finally starting to hit the news over here in the US. Tirian will probably have something to say about it. Looks like a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk (?):

http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-ural ... binsk-283/

Several sonic booms:

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/Meteo ... elyabinsk/

Some crazies speculating the end of the world/UFOs:

http://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.co ... elyabinsk/

The Twitter feed is going crazy (might not be able to view this without
being logged in):

https://twitter.com/search?q=Chelyabinsk&src=tren

The videos coming in right now are pretty terrifying. Almost wonder if this was traveling along with the smallish (40-90 meter wide) asteroid scheduled to fly by tomorrow?

One source claims that the Russians were able to intercept the meteor with their air defense systems, but there's no obvious contrail leading up from the ground, and I'd expect that something traveling as fast as a meteor would be somewhat difficult to intercept. They're usually traveling quite a bit faster than a satellite in LEO even when slowed by atmospheric drag. Otherwise, if they did, that's an impressive feat.

Edit:

Judging by the trajectory of the one coming in tomorrow, if I'm reading this right, I suspect today's event was just a coincidence.

[Grimblast]

[Zancarius]

ahahah that's genius.

Sources today are reporting that the rock that hit was around 10 tons.

[Highgrade]

[Zancarius]

Too soon? Or not soon enough?