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| Barrel Bombs hit Red Cross hospital in Aleppo |
| 2015-04-29 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian raids hit Red Thingy hospital in the neighborhood of al-Sakhour in Aleppo, leaving four maimed, activists said Tuesday. The barrel-kaboom on the only active hospital in the eastern district of Aleppo has left major damage as big part of the building had turned to rubble, Zaman al-Wasl news hound said. Bashir al-Assad air force has also targeted neighborhood of Bustan al-Qasr and Tal Refaat town in the northern countryside, one killed, activists said. In relevant development, Salafist tough guys active in Aleppo have formed a new command room called 'Fatah Aleppo' in step imitates their counterparts in neighboring Idlib province who made remarkable gains started by taking control of Idlib city and most of its countryside. The new command room, according to source from Fastaqem Kma Amrt, will take advantage of the humiliating defeats of Syria forces in Idlib inflicted by the Army of Fatah, an alliance that includes Nusra, the Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... movement and Jund al-Aqsa. Syria's four-year-old war has killed more than 220,000 people and forced millions out of their homes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Take Note bomb makers... 55 gallon drum weights about 40-45 pounds.My pilot book taught me that at 72 degrees a gallon of gasoline weight 6.25 pounds. 344 pounds of gas, 45 pounds of drum at the most. So a "barrel bomb" of gasoline weighs about 390 pounds. From reloading, 7.62 NATO holds 4.43mL (cc) and takes 52 or so grains, so thats roughly 12 grains/mL. That means its roughly 6.5 pounds/gallon. So 360 pounds of gunpowder per barrel. If you can pack it tighter or use FFFF fine powder, you might get a lot more in there. But if PencilNeck is using gunpowder, then he barrel bombs weigh in at about 400 pounds total. The gasoline ones are actually far more energy dense, but I'm not all that sure they can get the full energy out as an explosive, as opposed to combustive, release. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-04-29 22:15 |
| #9 If the metal cylinder filled with explosives and dropped from a plane was manufactured by a licensed corporation for an obscene profit and taxed equally obscenely, then it's OK. If the metal cylinder filled with explosives and dropped from a plane was basically pieced together without adequate profit and taxation, then it is evil. I hope this helps. |
| Posted by: Betty Protector of the Antelope8245 2015-04-29 14:59 |
| #8 I thought they were deployed from helicopters? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-04-29 14:56 |
| #7 I'm willing to stipulate that barrel bombs are heinous and evil, but it it not clear to me how a metal cylinder filled with explosives and dropped from a plane is different from a metal cylinder filled with explosives and dropped from a plane. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-04-29 14:47 |
| #6 Oh okay, thanks g(r)om. In other words the Muslim worlds answer to GPS and laser guided bombs. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-04-29 14:07 |
| #5 I have a picture of someone pushing a 55 gal. drum out of a plane. Yes. Exactly. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-04-29 12:27 |
| #4 What IS a "barrel-bomb" anyway? I have a picture of someone pushing a 55 gal. drum out of a plane. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-04-29 10:34 |
| #3 More scumbag grey from Assad, the last Baathist. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-04-29 09:16 |
| #2 Do Syrian "freedom fighters" use hospitals as military headquarters---the way Paleos do? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-04-29 03:03 |
| #1 Hey when you go bowling with barrel bombs... you sometimes get a strange bounce. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-04-29 01:00 |