Asymmetrical warfare can be *very* effective, as the U.S. neglected to learn from Viet Nam, and is committing the same mistake with Iran.
It costs us *far* more to defend against swarms of relatively cheap drones and missiles than is sustainable for any length of time.
It also depletes our reserves, which would make China happy while it makes preparations to deal with Taiwan.
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It *also* doesn't help that Russia is providing intelligence and material aid to Iran; and The Criminal decided to ease the sanctions on *both* of them, so they can both make money to buy more arms to be used against us.....
This sure looks like 'giving aid and comfort to the Enemy in a time of war', doesn't it.
1.5g of a proper explosive is more than capable of crippling you.
As a comparison, an RP-1 exploding bridgewire det (probably the benchmark for modern civilian detonators) is barely more than 600mg of PETN. A quick search of the tubez didn't find the video demonstration I recall from explosives safety training - they had an amazingly graphic demo with a meat and bone filled glove and a RP-1 equivalent.
HE is real, kids. Way not like the movies where steve sagal uses a butter-stick sized brick of C4 to pop a cockpit door. The charge used in the Locherbie bombing was maybe half of a golf ball (maybe 40-50 cm3.)
Asymmetrical warfare can be *very* effective, as the U.S. neglected to learn from Viet Nam, and is committing the same mistake with Iran.
It costs us *far* more to defend against swarms of relatively cheap drones and missiles than is sustainable for any length of time.
It also depletes our reserves, which would make China happy while it makes preparations to deal with Taiwan.
.
It *also* doesn't help that Russia is providing intelligence and material aid to Iran; and The Criminal decided to ease the sanctions on *both* of them, so they can both make money to buy more arms to be used against us.....
This sure looks like 'giving aid and comfort to the Enemy in a time of war', doesn't it.
Just sayin'.
Russia buys drones and missiles for use in Ukraine from the Iranian factories that Trump is trying to destroy.
1.5g of a proper explosive is more than capable of crippling you.
As a comparison, an RP-1 exploding bridgewire det (probably the benchmark for modern civilian detonators) is barely more than 600mg of PETN. A quick search of the tubez didn't find the video demonstration I recall from explosives safety training - they had an amazingly graphic demo with a meat and bone filled glove and a RP-1 equivalent.
HE is real, kids. Way not like the movies where steve sagal uses a butter-stick sized brick of C4 to pop a cockpit door. The charge used in the Locherbie bombing was maybe half of a golf ball (maybe 40-50 cm3.)
Ingenious, inventive, and insidious all at the same time! Definitely on par with the Israeli pager bombs.