Nice, nice, VERY nice: Man-****table *vacuum bombs* ---
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British Army deploys new weapon based on mass-killing technology
Parliament not told, minister says
John Byrne
Thursday August 23, 2007
A new 'super-weapon' being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan
employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle which uses heat
and
pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out
of
lungs and rupturing internal organs.
The so-called "enhanced blast" weapon uses similar technology used in the
US
"bunker busting" bombs and the devastating bombs dropped by the Russians
to
destroy the Chechen capital, Grozny.
Such weapons are brutally effective because they first disperse a gas or
chemical agent which is lit at a second stage, allowing the blast to fill
the spaces of a building or the crevices of a cave. When the US military
deployed a version of these weapons in 2005, DefenseTech wrote an article
titled, "Marines Quiet About Brutal New Weapon."
According to the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which released a study on
thermobaric weapons in 1993, "The [blast] kill mechanism against living
targets is unique--and unpleasant.... What kills is the pressure wave, and
more im****tantly, the subsequent rarefaction [vacuum], which ruptures the
lungs.. If the fuel deflagrates but does not detonate, victims will be
severely burned and will probably also inhale the burning fuel. Since the
most common FAE fuels, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, are highly
toxic,
undetonated FAE should prove as lethal to personnel caught within the
cloud
as most chemical agents."
A second DIA study said, "shock and pressure waves cause minimal damage to
brain tissue... it is possible that victims of FAEs are not rendered
unconscious by the blast, but instead suffer for several seconds or
minutes
while they suffocate."
"The effect of an FAE explosion within confined spaces is immense," said a
CIA study of the weapons. "Those near the ignition point are obliterated.
Those at the fringe are likely to suffer many internal, and thus invisible
injuries, including burst eardrums and crushed inner ear organs, severe
concussions, ruptured lungs and internal organs, and possibly blindness."
British defense officials told the UK Guardian that British bombs were
"different."
"They are optimized to create blast [rather than heat]", one said,
speaking
on the standard condition of anonymity in Britain. The official added that
it would be misleading to call them "thermobaric."
Officials told the Guardian the new weapon was classified as a soldier
launched "light anti-structure munition" and that the bombs would be more
effective because "even when they hit the damage is limited to a confined
area."
"The continuing issue of civilian casualties in Afghanistan has enormous
im****tance in the battle for hearts and minds," said Liberal Democrat
leader
Sir Menzies Campbell in the article. "If these weapons contribute to the
deaths of civilians then a primary purpose of the British deployment is
going to be made yet more difficult."
According to Campbell, the deployment of the weapons was not announced to
Parliament.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/British_Army_deploys_new_weapon_based_0823.html
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