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2015-04-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Barrel Bombs hit Red Cross hospital in Aleppo

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Posted by Fred 2015-04-29 00:05|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Hey when you go bowling with barrel bombs... you sometimes get a strange bounce.

Posted by 3dc 2015-04-29 01:00|| 2015-04-29 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Do Syrian "freedom fighters" use hospitals as military headquarters---the way Paleos do?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-04-29 03:03|| 2015-04-29 03:03|| Front Page Top

#3 More scumbag grey from Assad, the last Baathist.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-29 09:16|| 2015-04-29 09:16|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-04-29 10:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-04-29 12:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-04-29 14:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-04-29 14:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought they were deployed from helicopters?

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-29 14:56|| 2015-04-29 14:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-04-29 14:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-04-29 22:15|| Front Page Top

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