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Bat Bomb
25 November 2017, 09:09

Posted on 01/15/2018 4:41:43 PM PST by keat

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1 posted on 01/15/2018 4:41:43 PM PST by keat
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2 posted on 01/15/2018 4:45:07 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: keat
This seems to be a cut & paste out of Wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

3 posted on 01/15/2018 4:47:06 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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4 posted on 01/15/2018 4:48:31 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Liberalism, as with all else evil, can never create. It can only corrupt.)
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LOL, that’s funny. ;)


5 posted on 01/15/2018 4:51:35 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“Some Days, You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Bomb”.

Batman


6 posted on 01/15/2018 4:51:40 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: keat

I though Genghis Khan invented this, but used sparrows.


7 posted on 01/15/2018 4:53:46 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Men stand up for freedom; slaves kneel before their masters.)
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Imperial Japan had their own rodent army they plan to use against the US. They wanted to release plague infected insects into the population where they would first attack rodents stateside. They would be released via clay pots carried by balloons. It was to be an attack on the West Coast of the continental US


8 posted on 01/15/2018 4:54:39 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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“I’ll take ‘What If Wile E. Coyote Were The Secretary of Defense’ for $200, Alex”


9 posted on 01/15/2018 4:56:23 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Menehune56

Yes.


10 posted on 01/15/2018 4:58:51 PM PST by keat
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11 posted on 01/15/2018 5:00:19 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Batman's bomb run, Benny Hill Mode
12 posted on 01/15/2018 5:00:24 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: keat

There was a TV program about this several years ago. I guess it was on “The History Channel”.

I think the gist of it was that it worked but was not that much better than just dropping incendiary bombs plus it was a whole lot more trouble.


13 posted on 01/15/2018 5:03:22 PM PST by yarddog
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To: a fool in paradise

They also had these, which some people have thought may have been what came down at Roswell; the remains of one was found as recently as 2014:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon


14 posted on 01/15/2018 5:20:02 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: keat

so a deliberate war crime ?


15 posted on 01/15/2018 5:24:41 PM PST by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp as)
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To: Jamestown1630

Arms race of fire balloons and rodent troops


16 posted on 01/15/2018 5:29:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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Hey; the fire balloon was the first ‘intercontinental weapon’.


17 posted on 01/15/2018 5:38:42 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Ciaphas Cain
LOL! I remember that scene!

You win the thread.

18 posted on 01/15/2018 5:42:45 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Would have loved to have been in the room when that bomb idea was first proposed. Those generals must have fallen out of their chairs laughing.


19 posted on 01/15/2018 5:48:39 PM PST by SamAdams76
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Judges 15:4 & 5:

Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails. 5 When he had set fire to the torches, he released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves...

This is the oldest use of animal-borne incendiaries I know of, but someone may come up with an earlier one...

20 posted on 01/15/2018 5:55:40 PM PST by CurlyDave
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