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This could ruin your whole morning.
Strategy page also has some dope on a new Air Force bomb called HardSTOP,
… designed to destroy the inside of target buildings, without damaging adjacent buildings. HardSTOP is a GPS guided half ton cluster bomb. The GPS and computer in the bomb control the dispersal of 54 smaller bomblets, that are designed to penetrate the roof of a building and explode inside. The bomb software can be programmed to distribute the bomblets in an area as small as 20 feet in diameter, or up to 110 feet. When the bomblets go through the roof, they explode. Some of the bomblets can be programmed to go through one or more floors before exploding. With HardSTOP, the risk of damage to nearby buildings is minimal. Actually, the building the bomblets hit won’t be damaged much, as the small explosive charge in each bomblet is designed to kill people, not destroy a building. In effect, HARDStop puts 54 large hand grenades inside a building, allowing nearby friendly troops to quickly move in and take possession.
Sort of the conventional equivalent of the “neutron bomb,” I guess.
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May 12th, 2005 at 10:00 am
Hmm, it is meant to reduce damage to adjacent
buildings, and would reduce casualties amongst
our people, so naturally it will be condemned
by our home-grown Jihadi supporters as being
a violation of some Hague or Geneva convention.
May 12th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
Ever see the movie “The Arrival”? Not the inferior sequel with Patrick Muldoon, but the surprisingly good (IMO) first movie with Charlie Sheen. There was this little copper ball-shaped contraption, you see. Set it up in a room, and it would effectively cease the existence of anything in that room, including itself. The ultimate room cleaner.
May 12th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
welp, I have tendencies towards agreeing with my umptyump great uncle WT that war is cruelty and you can’t refine it. I wonder if the quest for ever more surgically adept applications of force is failing to force the supporting population to confront their failure. Flattening large chunks of Germany and Japan underlined their defeat. Damage limitation makes sense in crimefighting, not so much in warfare. And no I’m not advocating scorched earth warfare.
May 12th, 2005 at 7:07 pm
Man, I was really looking forward to getting on here & cursing like a sailor, personally attack you & plugging my husband’s computer company, but I guess I’ll just say Hi & tell you that my new favorite word is “bomblet”.
My brother is back over there in Afghanistan right now TCB (I’m such a southern girl!) He claims things are quiet there, but I’ve been reading differently! I’ve been keeping up with you here & it sounds like you are well…which makes me happy! Love to you & the family!