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Forget the United States’ low-collateral damage Small Diameter Bomb, France has begun using concrete filled training bombs to literally crush Gadhafi’s tanks without causing massive explosions that can harm nearby civilians.
Apparently, the 660-pound “training bombs” have not been pressed into combat due to a lack of explosive munitions, as was reported earlier this month.
From AFP:
Military spokesman Thierry Burkhard denied rumors the use of the 300-kilogram (660-pound) training devices was prompted by a shortage of real bombs. He said the first such strike crushed an armored vehicle April 26.
“The aim of this munition … is to use the effect of the impact while limiting the risk of collateral damage,” Burkhard said. “It is a very precise strike. There is no, or very little, shrapnel thrown out.”
Concrete bombs have been around for decades (the ones pictured above are from World War II) and are usually used for training. However, a 600-pound piece of concrete dropped from thousands of feet in the air can be pretty darn effective when it hits a relatively small, soft target.
Keep in mind that the bombs, while concrete, are still guided by modern technology like GPS or lasers onto their targets since a near miss with a concrete bomb won’t get you much.
This wouldn’t be the first time such weapons have been used in modern air warfare. The U.S. used laser-guided concrete bombs against Iraqi targets in the late 1990s for the same reason France says it’s using them.
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Concrete donkey from Worms is what is in my mind
Death by being crushed by a concrete bomb.
Okay.
Stick a bit of rebar in the concrete bomb and you've got yourself some ghetto armor piercing weaponry.
That would hurt soooo fucking much
Lol what the hell is with the disagrees?
I'd like to see you all stand 10 yards away from the impact zone and tell me you didn't shit your pants.
Sure, why not.
They are flattening tanks in cities without blowing them up, thus saving who knows how many lives and homes. On top of that they cost far less than conventional weapons. I like it.
At first I thought they were just dropping concrete and hoping it would hit. Then I read that they're laser guided. That's pretty smart. Collateral damage is null, and they're insanely cheap.
hahaha
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;29566106]They are flattening tanks in cities without blowing them up, thus saving who knows how many lives and homes. I like it.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully they don't bounce.
They should drop anvils, just for the comedy effect.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;29566106]They are flattening tanks in cities without blowing them up, thus saving who knows how many lives and homes. I like it.[/QUOTE]
What's funny is when I told my grandpa about this he acted like it was the stupidest thing ever, it's like people don't realize that technology is sophisticated enough to guide a bomb to a precise location, do people REALLY assume that bombs are dropped in the "general area" of where they want to bomb?
France's recent actions in the Libyan rebellion really raise a white flag for me
Disagrees? lolwut
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That's so awesome. France isn't that bad.
i heard they gave up a couple hours later
[QUOTE=Mingebox;29566128]Hopefully they don't bounce.[/QUOTE]
I don't think they would bounce, I think they'd make a nice crater or large pothole.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;29566230]I don't think they would bounce, I think they'd make a nice crater or large pothole.[/QUOTE]
Those things are so hard to fill in!
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;29566230]I don't think they would bounce, I think they'd make a nice crater or large pothole.[/QUOTE]
Thinking about it, this would be a cheap way to ruin an enemy air field
[QUOTE=jaykray;29566236]Those things are so hard to fill in![/QUOTE]
use concrete
[QUOTE=Van-man;29566137]They should drop anvils, just for the comedy effect.[/QUOTE]
Nostalgia.
[QUOTE=Craptasket;29566256]Thinking about it, this would be a cheap way to ruin an enemy air field[/QUOTE]
There's no need to use them there though, the possibility of civilian deaths would be much lower.
[QUOTE=Craptasket;29566256]Thinking about it, this would be a cheap way to ruin an enemy air field[/QUOTE]
I want to see someone fill a modified cargo jet with a bunch of old cars and washing machines and whatever else they can find at the landfill and just push it all out over a runway to destroy it
Cheap and probably pretty effective
[QUOTE=Craptasket;29566256]Thinking about it, this would be a cheap way to ruin an enemy air field[/QUOTE]
Makes craters that ground crews will just fill in as immediate repairs, better to use a dedicated anti-runway weapon
I mean
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i don't give a fuck what some two-bit hack with a freedom fries fetish has to say, i like france
now all they have to do is get rid of their stubborn casual racism and we'll be good
[QUOTE=Zeke129;29566271]I want to see someone fill a modified cargo jet with a bunch of old cars and washing machines and whatever else they can find at the landfill and just push it all out over a runway to destroy it
Cheap and probably pretty effective[/QUOTE]
but think about the damage to the environment, bombs are green friendly
How exactly does it damage these AFVs?
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Last time I checked, concrete is less dense than steel.
[QUOTE=Apache249;29566377]How exactly does it damage these AFVs?[/QUOTE]
Kinetic energy, artillery shells to the same thing to AFVs if they hit in addition to their explosive filler detonating
[QUOTE=Van-man;29566137]They should drop anvils, just for the comedy effect.[/QUOTE]
And grand pianos too.
I want to see some high speed camera footage of the impacts of these things.
[QUOTE=Master117;29566394]And grand pianos too.[/QUOTE]
Those would work better on squads traveling on foot or in light armored cars.
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