"The Prime Directive is a living document, Mr. Spock!"
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 ...
well.... they kill em more...conventionally.
It sucks to be be a Taliban jihadist.
About a year ago, they came out against the shoulder-fired version, intended to clear hostiles from rooms in buildings, as being "anti-Muslim", since surprise, muzzies like to attack from among civilians, and therefore, it will end up being primarily used against the murdering practitioners of Islam.
If being able to minimize collateral damage when taking out terrorists, the lefties lose the propaganda talking point multiplier.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
"The Prime Directive is a living document, Mr. Spock!"
I always thought the “Prime Directive” was stupid. They were constantly violating it except when it was mentioned.
Wow, you’re good.
“I always thought the “Prime Directive” was stupid. They were constantly violating it except when it was mentioned.”
Some great vids on that link.
Dayum. I’m trying to picture what this would look like to someone inside one of these buildings. Are we not the shizzle or what?
You could use just about any combustible power, grain mills, flour mills, and coal mines are all subject to dust explosions. The Nazi's developed a sort of "vortex" gun that expelled huge swirling clouds of flame, it was powered with coal dust. They found no practical use for them however.
Thermobaric explosives differ from conventional explosives in that they generate a shock-wave from the entire volume of the dispersed dust cloud whereas conventional explosives function as more or less a point source. The conventional shock-wave attenuates as an inverse square relationship and does not easily propagated around coroners. Because of these characteristics distance from the explosion serves to diminish the blast effects rapidly and passageways with coroners provide shielding from the direct blast. Thermobaric explosions overcome these shielding effects by spreading the explosive throughout the target before detonating.
IOW more "BANG" for the buck!
Regards,
GtG
I am not certain by any means but I always suspected it had something to do with making sure we didn’t think Western Civilization was superior to others such as cannibals and head hunters.
You've provided a very good description, but the coroner thing, very funny! (sorry :^) ).
Damn... Nice strike! Thx for the link!
That's the war Klintoon conducted against Yugoslavia. No pictures of dead Serbs. Only tomatoe patch Albanian Maoist invader "mass graves". No dead Americans.
yitbos
Within four months. The secondaries are truely something to see .............. FRegards
yitbos
Not good. How qualified do the coroners have to be? *\;-)
Thank ExTxRh
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