From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 14:57:31 MST
We'll se how practical these weapons are. Will they be used in the Bagdad
battle? But if workable, these weapons seem to be effectively revolutionary
in their goal. Why lug or manufacture Artillary, when you can possess a super
mortar? It also makes a terror weapon (at least to my imagination) all the
more possible. These weapons, if not hyped, are as big a change in fighting
capability, as the introduction of air-ground and air to air missles.
MMB goes Lorrey!
<<The Russians, just by the way, are reported to have been fielding a two-
shot disposable thermobaric weapon for some time now. They coined the term,
and some of the translated documents I've read seem to indicate that the
Russians make a distinction between thermobarics and fuel-air munitions
like the ones the US has employed in the pre-Afghanistan past. Not sure if
that's just NIH at work. (Not Invented Here, not National Institutes of
Health).
From the "baric" part of the name, I am guessing it has to do with the
creation of a convection cell to enhance the kill effect, whereas FAMs, I
deduce/recollect, are area effect, just go boom and explode or fry the
lungs, eardrums, etc. of anyone unfortunate enough to have breathed in the
mix.>>
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