Wendigo
Banned
Excerpt from a book about the Vietnam War:
My question is is it really plausible that a single B-52 armed with cluster bombs could fill a whole square mile with over 7 million steel pellets?
How effective would an attack like this be?
Would everyone caught within the bombs' area of effect get injured or die? Or was there a chance of surviving unscathed?
How do steel ball bearings compare to steel darts in terms of lethality in cluster bombs?
The "guava" cluster bomb, officially designated CBU-24, was even deadlier. Loaded with 640 to 670 separate BLU-26 bomblets, each packing 300 steel pellets, just one guava could send 200,000 steel fragments shooting in all directions as it hit the ground.
A single B-52 bomber loaded with guava bomblets could saturate an area slightly smaller than a square mile with more than 7.5 million deadly steel pellets.
My question is is it really plausible that a single B-52 armed with cluster bombs could fill a whole square mile with over 7 million steel pellets?
How effective would an attack like this be?
Would everyone caught within the bombs' area of effect get injured or die? Or was there a chance of surviving unscathed?
How do steel ball bearings compare to steel darts in terms of lethality in cluster bombs?