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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.
1 posted on 05/03/2018 1:59:14 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter

Sounds like fuel/air explosives.


2 posted on 05/03/2018 2:00:42 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: headstamp 2

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


3 posted on 05/03/2018 2:01:28 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: headstamp 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmRASCHJe2Q


4 posted on 05/03/2018 2:02:24 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: headstamp 2

In the Tokyo firebombing(WW2) the winds picked up speed over 100mph just to feed the fire.


5 posted on 05/03/2018 2:05:34 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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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!


6 posted on 05/03/2018 2:06:38 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: BeadCounter

‘vacuum’ bombs. No these are not Fuel Air Explosives. Nope.


7 posted on 05/03/2018 2:08:19 PM PDT by McGruff (Bring our troops home. Defend our border.)
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To: Spruce
The hood is a bonnet

The boot is a trunk

a lift is an elevator.

England is cold damp and sarcastic.

8 posted on 05/03/2018 2:09:26 PM PDT by spokeshave2 (Formerly as spokeshave...now restarted after computer issues.)
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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.

9 posted on 05/03/2018 2:11:54 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: BeadCounter

We’re trying to kill them, idiots.


10 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.)
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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.
11 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.)
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12 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 ......)
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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... :)
13 posted on 05/03/2018 2:21:16 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: BeadCounter
Does this mean pressure cookers are out of style with terrorists?


14 posted on 05/03/2018 2:28:11 PM PDT by Rebelbase (YETI deathwatch, tick, tick, tick......)
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To: BeadCounter

How do they not suck CO2 also?


15 posted on 05/03/2018 2:29:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Spruce; spokeshave2

“Those crazy Brits!”

What language do they speak there (Britland)?


16 posted on 05/03/2018 2:29:28 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: SaveFerris

“She’s gone from ‘Suck’ to ‘Blow’!”


17 posted on 05/03/2018 2:29:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BeadCounter

Since the fifties at least. Called Fuel/AIr Explosive (FAE).


18 posted on 05/03/2018 2:52:58 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: spokeshave2

a Paki is a Brit


19 posted on 05/03/2018 2:56:37 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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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.

20 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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