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Comments on Rocket Balls - Pentagon's Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries
This looks a lot like a diagram of the mechanical theory of heat; I want to know what happens if the walls start to close in. (Read
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| "Rocket balls also made me think of Neal Stephenson's cookie-cutters (also called ballisticules) from his 1995 novel The Diamond Age. They're kind of like rocket balls for the blood stream." (Bill Christensen 11/13/2008 8:12:16 PM) |
| "In my experience, factories of any type have thinner more breakable walls than the equipment inside. This is of course because the walls usually only protect the people and equipment from the elements outside where the equipment itself has to protect the people and equipment from the deadly things inside which tend to be far worse than the environment. If you put a G.I.Joe airplane inside a cardboard box and put some lit bottlerockets in there as well, then seal the box, the box is likely going to take more damage than the plane." (Brandon 11/14/2008 10:37:00 AM) |
| "Brandon - good comment. I was unclear in the article; I added the needed material that describes how the rocket balls destroy their target. It's the exhaust gas from the rocket balls - it heats the interior space of a building to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit within minutes." (Bill Christensen 11/14/2008 11:56:18 AM) |
| "The Japanese used rubberized handballs that were lit when the canister opened during WWII in China. It worked like a cluster weapon and now like these fireballs. The handballs were suppose to bounce off of the chinese tile roofs and land in the burnable vegatation and wooden walls and open windows. They had this fifty years ago then. Clever those Tojo warriors." (T 1/21/2009 4:20:55 PM) |
| "Brandon has a good point, but lets remember that those kind of buildings are, no offence, cheap. Its much more realistic to imagine a gi joe plane in a concrete box, or a hardwood box. Not just paper. " (Jrook 11/7/2010 3:05:37 PM) |
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