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UK drones in Syria using controversial 'vacuum' bombs
Middle East Eye ^
| 3 May 2018
| Will Horner
Posted on 05/03/2018 1:59:14 PM PDT by BeadCounter
Britain's defence ministry have acknowledged using controversial thermobaric missiles in Syria that rights groups have described as "indiscriminate".
Royal Air Force drones used the weapons, often called "vacuum" bombs because they suck oxygen into the powerful blast, against targets in Syria in January and February of this year, an FOI request sent by Drone Wars UK, a campaign group, has revealed.
The missiles work by sucking in oxygen from the environment to create a high-temperature explosion with an extremely powerful blast radius. Unlike conventional explosives that cause injuries through shrapnel, the blast effect of thermobaric weapons causes internal organ damage including to the lungs.
(Excerpt) Read more at middleeasteye.net ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: drones; fakepeaceactivists; russia; syria; thermobaric; unitedkingdom
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If you don't make these weapons, rest assured, your enemy will. I know nothing about these, perhaps, these 'vacuum' bombs have been around for decades.
To: BeadCounter
Sounds like fuel/air explosives.
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:00:42 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
To: headstamp 2
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:01:28 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
To: headstamp 2
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:02:24 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
To: headstamp 2
In the Tokyo firebombing(WW2) the winds picked up speed over 100mph just to feed the fire.
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:05:34 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: BeadCounter
Chips are crisps.
Diapers are nappies.
Cigarettes are fags.
Baby buggies are prams.
Trucks are lorries.
Girls are birds.
Fries are chips.
Fuel Air bombs are Vacuum bombs.
Those crazy Brits!
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:06:38 PM PDT
by
Spruce
To: BeadCounter
‘vacuum’ bombs. No these are not Fuel Air Explosives. Nope.
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:08:19 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Bring our troops home. Defend our border.)
To: Spruce
The hood is a bonnet
The boot is a trunk
a lift is an elevator.
England is cold damp and sarcastic.
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:09:26 PM PDT
by
spokeshave2
(Formerly as spokeshave...now restarted after computer issues.)
To: BeadCounter
The North Vietnamese complained about the use of FAEs on SAM sites.
A few years back, British "peace" groups complained about a new small thermobaric rocket or charge used to take out doors and rooms in urban conditions.
The reasoning?
It would most likely be used to take out islamics that practiced that kind of urban warfare hiding in rooms waiting to ambush troops.
To: BeadCounter
We’re trying to kill them, idiots.
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:16:40 PM PDT
by
youngidiot
(God will bless you for doing what you ought to be doing any damned way. He's amazing.)
To: BeadCounter
My idea of a "vacuum bomb" would be dropping old TV picture tubes, which would implode when they hit and send shards of glass everywhere.
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:17:46 PM PDT
by
snarkpup
(Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:18:45 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: BeadCounter
Oh man...I feel so bad about this.. Those poor muslims getting the oxygen sucked out of them.... Horrible..!! I would much prefer to use the tire around the neck thingy... :)
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:21:16 PM PDT
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: BeadCounter
Does this mean pressure cookers are out of style with terrorists?
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:28:11 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(YETI deathwatch, tick, tick, tick......)
To: BeadCounter
How do they not suck CO2 also?
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:29:23 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Spruce; spokeshave2
“Those crazy Brits!”
What language do they speak there (Britland)?
To: SaveFerris
“She’s gone from ‘Suck’ to ‘Blow’!”
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:29:53 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BeadCounter
Since the fifties at least. Called Fuel/AIr Explosive (FAE).
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:52:58 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: spokeshave2
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posted on
05/03/2018 2:56:37 PM PDT
by
Thibodeaux
(Long Live the Republic!)
To: youngidiot
rights groups have described as "indiscriminate". Well ISIS does subscribe to the Geneva Convention. They would never indiscriminately murder anyone. /s
Hitler was ripped off. He never had a "rights group" to advocate for him and the Nazi War Machine.
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posted on
05/03/2018 3:05:09 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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