Thermobaric weapons - killer extordinaire

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RedMercury

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In case you missed my drift, which I don't blame since I'm terse, I was commenting about how "humane", or whatever adjective you'd like to use, thermobarics are. My point is that they are no less humane than weapons like napalm. Being blown apart is far less painful than burned alive. The force required to dismantle a body will most likely cause unconsciousness from concussion. At least with thermobarics, you're more likely to go quick (a pistol whip to the head and all goes dark) than burn to death (jump into a boiling pool of oil). So I find the talk of thermobarics being some new barbaric weapon hollow and probably due to ulterior motives. If you want to limit barbarism, start with the people who start wars.
 
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Quickie

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Some unknowns here.
What kind of injuries would this kind of weapon lead to if anyone were to somehow survive the aftermath of it? Someone not directly in the nucleus of the blast, but at its outer regions and such? For all we know, it may be worser than the napalm bomb or a land mine.
 
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RedMercury said:
In case you missed my drift, which I don't blame since I'm terse, I was commenting about how "humane", or whatever adjective you'd like to use, thermobarics are. My point is that they are no less humane than weapons like napalm. Being blown apart is far less painful than burned alive. The force required to dismantle a body will most likely cause unconsciousness from concussion. At least with thermobarics, you're more likely to go quick (a pistol whip to the head and all goes dark) than burn to death (jump into a boiling pool of oil). So I find the talk of thermobarics being some new barbaric weapon hollow and probably due to ulterior motives. If you want to limit barbarism, start with the people who start wars.
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No problem. I was responding to sandyj's assertion that napalm was an "outside weapon" as opposed to an "inside weapon" (as with thermobarics) n response to your own comparison of thermobarics to napalm, napalm mostly definitely not being restricted to "outside" use. That said, for those who are caught in the more marginal areas of a thermobaric explosion, their deaths are little or no less agonizing than if by napalm.

Pics of victims of thermobaric weapons are best not exhibited in public.
 
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adeptitus

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There's a lot of Russian theromobaric weapon videos on YT, like this:
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It's interesting that the MLR is referred to as a Heavy Flamethrower System.

Here's an old RPO Shmel in action, with slow-motion video:
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