Yeah I just found it in my logs… according to the log that’s bottle #07…
Pretty sure Tatiana is a she.
And you are right. She’s also the one who writes “the journal of a Soviet soldier” found in the mission “One Last Excursion”. There she reveals that the talking machine’s name is FNIX.
The a at the end of Tereshkova would indicate female gender so use she. Nice summary though.
What about a massive fuel-air (thermobaric, moab) type bomb? Easily a kilometre radius and no fallout. The radioactive stuff in the crater is likelyy from radioactive materials stored on the site.
Maybe they have modded one of the firebirds which was intended to crash from high above on the enemies instead of fighting the like normal firebirds
Very old topic…
Firebirds came later.
The answer is in the lore of the nesting dolls.
It was a nuclear warhead, even if just a small one.