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Better Bombs: Scientists Develop Metal That Explodes on Impact
Popular Mechanics ^
| August 2007
| David Hambling
Posted on 07/18/2007 8:26:20 AM PDT by BGHater
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This Navy test of a prototype warhead showed that reactive materials inert compounds that ignite on impact can increase the radius and lethality of a missile.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:26:23 AM PDT
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:29:28 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: BGHater
FORD did that years ago........It was called “Project PINTO”.....
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:29:30 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: Red Badger
NBC Dateline is on the story.
To: BGHater
mini-nukes ... I like it.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:32:38 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: BGHater
The only thing government does well...develop weapons!
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:40:22 AM PDT
by
Renkluaf
To: Red Badger
Good place to bump this thread.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:42:07 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq -- via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: BGHater
Imagine the surprise when a stray enemy bullet hits one of these warheads being carried by one of our planes or tanks.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:44:15 AM PDT
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
To: BGHater
Like Dragon’s Breath shotgun shells amped up.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:44:43 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: BGHater
Yet another more efficient way to kill people and break things! Me likey!
To: Kevmo
Don’t BUMP it too hard.............
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:48:25 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: Renkluaf
If it works them I’m sure this was done by contractors. Government folks nowadays only manage stuff, and not very well either.
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posted on
07/18/2007 8:50:01 AM PDT
by
American_Centurion
(No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
To: American_Centurion
“Hey Boss, I think we mixed up orders with the steel that was supposed to go to the Big Dig.”
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:02:39 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Renkluaf
But they don't know who’s heads the said weapons need to be dropped on.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:03:08 AM PDT
by
Weeedley
To: BGHater
Almost 20 years ago I worked on projects related to High Energy Density Materials. We wanted more powerful rocket fuel. The big problem is that our stuff wanted to go BOOM instead of WHOOOSH. One time we had 10 MILLIGRAMS detonate all by itself and it wrecked the lab.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:16:18 AM PDT
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darth
To: BGHater; Millee; carlr; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; StephenTX; wallcrawlr; Auntbee; Shimmer128; ...
They need to rush this into production and start issuing ‘Blended Metal’ ammo to all our troops...
Info on ‘Blended Metal Ammo’ at http://www.defensereview.com/article577.html
Amazing things these smart bullets do!
Like making hamburger meat out of Islamic targets...
One of the private body guards in Baghdad shot one terrorist in the rump with a blended metal round, what he thought a glancing 'flesh wound' but the muzzy went down. When they checked, the fella was dead and his rear end was shredded.
Now, that's what I call a good way to get all those Islamic Terrorists their fondest wish and 72 virgins to boot!
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:16:58 AM PDT
by
Bender2
(A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
To: Bender2
Now that we got the magic bullets we need, all thats left is to grease the rounds with pork fat.
New designation. BMPFL (blended metal, pig fat lubed)
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:32:27 AM PDT
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Weeedley
To: Weeedley
ROTFLMAO...
over your BMPFL!
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:39:31 AM PDT
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Bender2
(A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:43:23 AM PDT
by
kenth
(Let me hear your war cry!)
To: BGHater
Good!...You may spend my tax money on ways to slice and dice terrorists more effectively. I approve.
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