In battlefield technology, the shaped charge isn't cutting edge, except that it can cut through steel. Imagine an explosive device that manages to funnel the power of the blast into a predictable area, setting up a plasma jet that will cut steel. Well, by shaping the charge, you can do that. Any good combat engineer can make a shaped charge from composition C-4. Or, he can use a pre-made shaped charge. I myself have made expedient shaped charges for cutting bridge timbers. It isn't as good as a tamped charge, but it is effective nonetheless. In anti-armor technology we use shaped charges in the HEAT round. The HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) round uses a shaped charge to breach armor.
Here you see the Palestinian fighters setting a shaped charge to use against the Israeli forces. These photos are from Reuters and and come to us courtesy of Little Green Footballs. When that thing is detonated, it is going to create a standard shock wave, in a 360 pattern, throwing dirt and dust and debris everywhere. Some small portion of the shockwave is going to funnel forward and set up a plasma jet that will cut steel. That fighter is going to make a hell of a bang when the charge goes off, but whatever is in front of it is going to get the lion's share of the damage.
In this picture, we see the courageous Palestinian forces laying electrical wire to set off the shaped charge. We notice that the children are standing nearby, ready to run like hell if someone starts shooting at them. Any decent soldier, any decent commander would get the children away from there. These heroic Palestinian fighters would rather have the children nearby, because they know that the Israelis will think twice before firing in that direction. This photo documents the use of children as human shields by the Palestinians, and reduces them in my mind to Worthless Bastards.
This may be the begining of the end to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and, therefore, the eventual end of radical Islam. Compare this conflict to a sore on your arm. If you keep picking off the scab, the sore never heals. This conflict has never been allowed to reach resolution. It goes from conflict to lull, back to conflict, lull again, ad infinitum.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to resolve a culture conflict as deep as this one is for one side to destroy the other side. Let us hope that is about to happen.
FREE PALESTINE!
ReplyDeleteto where do you think the children should run? to their homes? THIS IS THEIR HOME! urban fighting leads to mass civilian and combatant casualties.. men may have a conscience and sharp aim and thus avoid shooting innocent people BUT some people think its ok to carpet bomb whole cities. sorry friend, your prejudicial opinion of these "worthless bastards" is quite wrong. they are freedom fighter fighting for what they believe. who are you to pass judgment anyways? violence is never the answer to any problem but neither is bigotry. Remember the alamo? i dont, but i do remember the USS Liberty.. lets just help the zionists rebuild the temple so Jesus can come back already = P. by the way, i am a Christian and an Army veteran.
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ReplyDeleteWell put. Any infection must be drained by lancing. Not by continually applying topical treatment which doesn't eradicate the cause of the infection. After it is drained, it must be cauterized to preclude re-infection. From my first tour in Beirut in 1983 until today, this metaphor has yet to be followed. When finally done, we will have peace, but not until then.
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