From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 12:51:13 MST
When a Gun Is More Than a Gun
<A HREF="http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,58094,00.html">http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,58094,00.html>
Thermo-Baric rifles don't kill, people do!! ;-)
02:00 AM Mar. 20, 2003 PT
<<PICATINNY ARSENAL, New Jersey -- It is among the most horrific weapons in
"This significantly increases the firepower that can be put in a single
Thermobaric grenades and mini-rockets were among dozens of current and future
According to Picatinny officials, thermobaric ammunition will be tested this
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5
: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 13:00:43 MST
any army's collection: the thermobaric bomb, a fearsome explosive that sets
fire to the air above its target, then sucks the oxygen out of anyone
unfortunate enough to have lived through the initial blast.
Last year, the U.S. military used such weapons for the first time in combat,
to incinerate suspected underground al-Qaeda hideouts in Afghanistan. In the
next few months, the U.S. Army will start putting this sweeping power in the
hands of individual soldiers.
person's hands," said Reuben Brigety, an arms researcher at <A HREF="http://www.hrw.org/">Human Rights
Watch</A>. "I'm not aware of any other conventional munitions used by a single
person that can have the same destructive power."
munitions the military demonstrated this week at Picatinny Arsenal, the
Army's lone research-and-development center for armaments and ammunition.
spring with the Bunker Defeat rocket launcher -- a shoulder-mounted,
disposable system that was first deployed in Afghanistan. It'll also be tried
out with the M203, the grenade launcher American grunts have used for
decades.>>