No but you rarely get such guarantees in war. It's quite possible that there were no, or few, civilian casualties, given the remoteness of the area and the fact that it was a conflict zone but no guarantees. What's absurd is all this hand-wringing about the type of weapon, "Ooooooh, it sucks people inside out ...." as if that was a worse way to die than being incinerated, butchered, or vaporised, by regular HE or incendiary ordnance.
I read that too. The proposition was that because the first explosion atomises and disperses the fuel that the secondary explosion ignites, anyone caught within the initial cloud would die from the chemical effects even if it weren't exploded. It's bollocks of course, because the entire point of the weapon is to ignite the fuel blanket, to create the over-pressure that this thing relies on to do its business.
Who lot? Can't say anything on here anymore. If it ain't Killary fans calling me a Trump supporter it's right-wingers calling me an Obama fan.
Lots of criticism of Obama's drone strikes on here. Lots of it.
As for this, this bit is ridiculous. IS are not a strong force in Afghanistan, and the Taliban of all people have been fighting against them. So this mahoosive bomb appears to have taken out a target that, in the big scheme of things, is pretty irrelevant. So it's a gesture. A gesture no doubt designed to show strength to various people, DPRK included, presumably. And I cannot help but think that it is the kind of gesture designed to show strength that in reality merely demonstrates weakness. Worrying - as Trump and the US become weaker, what else will they do?
, fortunately, most of them were used in the desert so mostly away from anywhere kids normally go. Still, a squaddie lost a few finger tips playing ball with one the imbecile.
Of course it's a gesture. Half the point of weapons like this is the psychological factor. Bollocks is it a demonstration of weakness. There's a fair chance that they wanted to ascertain its effectiveness too. Ffs, there's plenty going on that you can slate the American govt/military for at the moment, but dropping big bombs on scumbags isn't one of them.
I was hoping people would pick up the similarity of the bombs colour and the complexion and hair colouring of the TTT, aye wheySo they can find it if it doesn't go bang.
It is pushed out of the back of a Hercules transport so no need to paint it in camo colours so it doesn't ruin the aesthetic of a fighter jet is my guess.
They made a bomblet which was shaped like a ball the idea being it would bounce when dropped and then be easy to find if it didn't go off no one thought a bright orange ball might be something a kid would pick up
It has to be delivered by a C130 which would have been shot down way before it reached the target.
It's deflected the medias attention away from TTTs And his affiliates Russian connections?
