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**MannoFr** · 03-13-2008, 11:32 PM

"napalm gaza."

Fun ordnance note:

"Nape" doesn't go through concrete buildings very well.

Thermobaric or large conventional bombs are more suitable for razing cities. That's obviously why Russia has developed them. There is no reason to fight hand-to-hand in urban terrain when you can destroy it. With large thermobaric weapons, Grozny (for example) could have been flattened from the air and any areas where rebels tried to "play Stalingrad" from the rubble could easily have been wiped out. Normal bombs in the tiny quantities delivered nowadays aren't good for destroying area targets. That's a severe drawback of precision munitions.

03-13-2008, 11:32 PM	#1
MannoFr Join Date Mar 2007 Posts 4,451 Senior Member	"napalm gaza." Fun ordnance note: "Nape" doesn't go through concrete buildings very well. Thermobaric or large conventional bombs are more suitable for razing cities. That's obviously why Russia has developed them. There is no reason to fight hand-to-hand in urban terrain when you can destroy it. With large thermobaric weapons, Grozny (for example) could have been flattened from the air and any areas where rebels tried to "play Stalingrad" from the rubble could easily have been wiped out. Normal bombs in the tiny quantities delivered nowadays aren't good for destroying area targets. That's a severe drawback of precision munitions.
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