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comment by kleinbl00

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.





cgod  ·  2084 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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

kleinbl00  ·  2084 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah yeah totally I get that. what I'm saying is that the air pressure/wind force from high-scale conflagration is a weapon in its own right substantial enough that the US Air Force spent billions developing it.

tacocat  ·  2084 days ago  ·  link  ·  
kleinbl00  ·  2084 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey man Project Pigeon was fuckin dope. If you look at it it's the Imperial Japanese Navy's Oka bombs only without the suicidal volunteers.

Skinner wanted to make skyrats into heroes. I salute that shit.

tacocat  ·  2084 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I honestly also think it was pretty cool based on the limited footage of it I've seen. I wonder if we missed out on smart bombs by like 50 years and if pigeons are smarter than modern guidance technology

kleinbl00  ·  2084 days ago  ·  link  ·