Wednesday, 2 March 2022

VACUUM BOMBS:

 Hmm .. I just heard this today on RNZ National radio - the Russian invaders in Ukraine are supposedly using "illegal Vacuum Bombs" as they advance towards Kiev.

Ukrainian thermobaric Weapons:

Well - as it turns-out - the media person had as usual, chosen the most ignorant inaccurate inane description of such materiel  that she could find. In reality the biggest VACUUM around is inside her head - likely caused by her needing to listen to the producer's prompts while reading her screen stories on air.

The misnomer 'vacuum bomb' should refer to THERMOBARIC WEAPON or as I learned it -"fuel air explosives".

This form of killing tool works best at normal atmospheric levels where people can exist - because it contains almost 100% fuel - without the needed oxidizers for combustion. The warhead disperses it's fuel over wide areas into the air before igniting and as it goes woompha it efficiently consumes it's needed oxygen leaving a short lived deadly depleted zone or vacuum? - but that's not particularly worrisome as 99.99% of victims will have been macerated & vaporized anyway.

I'm not sure what you think - but when you are instantly killed by a 'two-two' mouse gun or a legal hand grenade .. does that feel any better than an illegal "Vacuum Bomb"? 

- If I cark it from a brain-storm stroke brought-on by fury at the effing 'POP-UPS'  on the screen that keep interrupting my work and even closing the screen where I am - is that any less tragic than a bloody "vacuum bomb"?

Marty K.


3 comments:

  1. First used towards the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 and wistfully marveled at for having been available too late as they killed every Viet Cong within the wide area. A critical condition was that for max effectiveness the air not be moving.
    I hadn't read of it being used in Korea '50-53.

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  2. Cheers Michael. - I guess if you got it - You use it eh.

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  3. Air Fuel Bombs featured in the film, "Outbreak" starring the guy playing rain man. The actual bomb shown was a BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" which is not an air fuel bomb.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2-YxWkRxk

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