Posted on 06/21/2008 3:45:28 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Apache attack helicopters have fired the thermobaric weapons against fighters in buildings and caves, to create a pressure wave which sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies.
...When it hits the target, the charge disperses the aluminium powder throughout the target building. The cloud then ignites, causing a massive secondary blast that tears throughout any enclosed space.
The blast creates a vacuum which draws air and debris back in, creating pressure of up to 430lb per sq in. The more heavily the building is protected, the more concentrated the blast.
...When the American military bought them in 2005, President George W Bush said: “There are going to be some awfully surprised terrorists when the thermobaric Hellfire comes knocking.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Kewl...
If the description of the weapon’s effectiveness is correct, Lockheed Martin deserves a kudos for its design. We are Americans. We don’t shoot at people with the intention of not hurting them.
Oh joy! Will the creeps in congress outlaw this like waterboarding? We need more of these gifts to be sent to our fun loving Muzzies.
HAPPY ENDING.. More, more, more. Bring it on!!!!
It seems they are gearing up to attack it like clusterbombs.
This is soooo Nicholas Cage in “The Rock.”
Works for me.
(Don't want to get banned, so will resist suggestions for further use)
Are you taking about an FAE?
Wasn’t there a Star Trek episode about a couple of planets who were waging a sanitary war? People were still dying but it wasn’t so “messy”. So war itself became extended because it wasn’t so bad. Seems the crew put a stop to it by somehow screwing up the computers that “disinfected” the battles with the justification that if war becomes the horror it is meant to be, it will end sooner.
Without a doubt, long overdue on the battlefield!
Hey Islamic terrorists, say hello to America’s IED.
What do conventional bombs do?
That sucks!
NICE! Can we give it to Irael to use on Add-Mini-Dumb???
Are these the “bunker buster” bombs?
Same principle, but sounds like this uses aluminum powder rather than liquid dispersal. The Military Channel had a good show about thermobaric explosives. Very violent blast effects.
Pay for view.
This new bomb sucks. Conventional bombs blow.
These weapons use powdered aluminum. The concept is the the same as a grain elevator explosion. A powdered substance with a lot of surface area to bond to available oxygen. The powdered aluminum burns fast and hot.
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