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| US To Use Magnetic Bombs In Invasion Of Iraq |
| 2003-01-08 |
| Source: IRNA The Saudi-Arabia based Radio Voice of Iraq (VOI), said in its Monday night news, monitored here that the US army will take advantage of "Microwise Bombs" that can generate magnetic caves in its future attack against Iraq. "Magnetic caves," is it? Generated by "microwise bomb"? I agree. It really was brillig, and then the slithy troves did in fact the mome raths outgrabe... The VOI added that the Microwise Bombs that will be used in attacks against Iraq for the first time are a new generation of warfare and can make useless all electronic devises, including radars, within a very wide range. Ahah! It seems they're talking about EMP — electromagnetic pulse — rather than just spouting gibberish. They had one of those in Ocean's 11. They stole it from a research center, where it was being used for, ummm... something... "Hi, Bob! How'd the test of your EMP bomb go?"The said radio without introducing the source of its precise information about the details of a future US attack, added, "the US air force will also use BC2 bombs, that act like cluster bombs and are each loaded with 40 small missiles that are shot in every direction, against Iraqi tanks." It said that the BC2 bombs can totally destroy objects within a 120 square meter circle's area of the place they hit and kill every three out of ten soldiers within the said range. Sounds like the effects of a multiple rocket launcher attack... The VOI added, "the other bombs to be used in the US attack against Iraq include the G48s, and small size nuclear bombs, similar to the ones used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan at the end of the World War II, in order to penetrate in to the underground facilities of the Iraqi army, including the shelters of Iraqi soldiers." Such bombs would inflict heaviest human casualties according to the Saudi based Arab language radio. It said that the latter two types that weigh 15 tons each, will explode after digging respectively six and ten meters, and create heavy and horrendous tremors that can destroy buildings within a wide range. Doctrinally, unless things have changed since my days in the brontosaur corps, we'll retaliate with nuclear weapons, to include use of mininukes, only if we're first attacked using WMDs. Sounds like the announcer was having an attack of hysteria or something... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #7 The penetrator is amazing, somehow changing shape from a lense shaped disk to a kind of arrowhead shape when fired from the way the explosion is controlled COOOOOL |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-01-08 18:40:16 |
| #6 The SFW has been around since the mid 80s. When each little cannister submunition is dispensed, a little fin on it makes it wobble so the infrared detector on the bottom actually scans in a spiral pattern on its way down. If fires the instant it sees a heat souce. The penetrator is amazing, somehow changing shape from a lense shaped disk to a kind of arrowhead shape when fired from the way the explosion is controlled. |
| Posted by: John K 2003-01-08 18:32:35 |
| #5 Shhhhh, don't mention the nano-bombs we have. Woops! Did I say nan^H^H^H.....uhhh, pretend you never heard anything I said.... ;) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-01-08 16:48:29 |
| #4 Asymmetrical warfare: The big guy has a seriously overdeveloped right arm. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-08 14:38:48 |
| #3 And here is their "microwise bomb". Space Daily says: "Military experts say the Pentagon has developed a series of accurate and powerful new weapons, including a microwave bomb, that could be used in a war against Iraq. The electromagnetic E-bomb, designed to destroy electronic nerve centers, could already be in the US arsenal, although Washington has not announced it publicly. While it does not kill people, it is capable of causing burns. On top of that, the E-bomb "could sever communications between Saddam Hussein and troops that might be ordered to use chemical and biological weapons," said John Pike, a military affairs expert. "It could freeze weapons of mass destruction, at least that would be the hope," he added. " EMP bomb, or more likely cruise missle will fry all unshielded electronics in its area of coverage. Some of the Russian stuff was built to handle a EMP pulse, but the shields and grounding would have to have been carefully maintained. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-01-08 14:38:29 |
| #2 I think instead of "BC2", they meant to say CBU = Cluster Bomb Unit. Which include this beauty: "The Sensor Fuzed Weapon [SFW] is an unpowered, top attack, wide area, cluster munition, designed to achieve multiple kills per aircraft pass against enemy armor and support vehicles. After release, the TMD opens and dispenses the ten submunitions which are parachute stabilized. Each of the 10 BLU-108/B submunitions contains four armor-penetrating projectiles with infrared sensors to detect armored targets. At a preset altitude sensed by a radar altimeter, a rocket motor fires to spin the submunition and initiate an ascent. The submunition then releases its four projectiles, which are lofted over the target area. The projectile's sensor detects a vehicle's infrared signature, and an explosively formed penetrator fires at the heat source. If no target is detected after a period of time, the projectiles automatically explode after a preset time interval, causing damage to material and personnel." There's your 40 small missles, VOI. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-01-08 14:17:15 |
| #1 Lots of people in the middle east having attacks of hysteria once they realized they had angrily declared "jihad" against the worlds greatest superpower, the one with dozens of nuclear power submarines and aircraft carriers. I think they also have figured out that americans may have come from europe, but they arent european. When attacked, americans stop negotiating and start exterminating. This a lesson the japanese/germans/spanish/mexico/sioux/british have learned over the years. It might have been worth the long distance charges to drop a call to the japanese for example and ask and ask them "Say, we were thinking of declaring war against the american people, any thoughts?" I'm thinking "Jihad" must mean "What the hell were we thinking". |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-01-08 13:54:47 |