Photos are captioned to imply Israeli airburst artillery shells over civilian areas are 'raining fire' on Gaza; but I do not recognize the ordinance, which look more like anti-missile flares dropped from an aircraft descending to the ground.
Inquiring FReepers want to catch Reuters in the act of misleading again, and then inform Fox news.
The top photo on this page http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475664,00.html may be especially misleading with the caption stating the arty set the building ablaze, since the building underneath the 'artillery shell' is fully involved in flames, with no evidence of a recent secondary explosion.
Any arty guys out there who can ID this?
I think they are naval star shells and artillery smoke shells.
That particular burst didn’t set the building on fire. It’s already well engaged with fire.
WP smoke round.
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Multiple warhead shells, like Cluster bombs for cannons controlled by a radar altimeter and set to go off a specific altitude vary similar to shells used in flak cannons during WWII.
Aboard ship, we used star shells and flares to throw off IR seekers. Hamas probably has ground weapons that utilize infrared.
I think illumination shells...and maybe the other is a star cluster. I don’t think they are smoke rounds - you don’t use them at night. Certainly no WP. The Gaza hospitals would be full of civilian burn victims. I don’t KNOW what WP looks like, since we don’t use it anymore. In fact, I have never heard of a modern round specifically for fire bombing...but I’m thinking it would be a heavy shell set for groundburst....not delicately hang in the air and flicker.
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I am not sure what that round is but they were using air burst cluster rounds to clear landmines.
I’m pretty sure they’re phosphorous shells. Which explains the “rain of fire” comments.