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kleinbl00 · 2084 days ago · link · · parent · post: “Depending on the final number, this might actually be the strongest ‘tornado’ in California history, even if it wasn’t formally a tornado.”
Thermobaric weaponry works by making all the air go somewhere else in a goddamn hurry. It's really tricky to accomplish in a controlled, tactical fashion but nature does a helluva job of spreading it wide.
I think this was mostly good old fashioned incendiary bombs, nothing fancy. It was during ftom the bombing of Cologne in World War II, when this kind of thing was still pretty new. It was one of the first truely massive bomber raids of the war, almost 1000 bombera in the first pass
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Oh, American war machine! So predictable. You'd R&D weaponized pigeons if it might kill people efficiently.
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