Or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love the (reactive material) bomb.”
Reactive armor is already being used to protect armored vehicles and tanks from penetrating and long rod warheads. Now however, those krazy kooks with slide rules who never quite got over the joy of making things go boom are looking to extend the protective belt out away from the vehicle itself.
From Popular Mechanics:
When most bombs go off, they release a spray of deadly shards of steel. Now, imagine that those shards were themselves explosive, detonating in a massive chain reaction. It’s for real: Defense contractors are harnessing the strange alchemy of reactive materials (RMs)
Must. Destroy. All. Trace. Of. Eeevilll. Tomcat. Nemesis….
Sounds like Greek Fire to me…
Lex,
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of the F-18, but that’s just cold… Blowing up another man’s love affair…
Jim C
To my uninitiated self it sounds sort of like a cluster bomb. Actually, I wonder what a cluster bomb of these would be like.
[...] mirth has been made in certain blog circles (the tanker circle?) about the below image which accompanied an article on a new type of weapon [...]
Hmmmm,
Looks like that Tomcat has a serious fule management issue…..
Either that or he’s practicing extremely close-in fuel-air explosives delivery.
Respects,
Looks like the Tomcat is turning into the fire.
Looks like it’s clawing it’s way into the fight to me.
Oh and that cat is still on it’s feet. Without big heavy engines to hold it down.
Word was they were going to use a mothballed Hornet, but the brakes were mysteriously locked up and they couldn’t drag it to the target area. That and they wanted something that could actually take some damage without getting blown out of the target area.
Go figure.
Seems like a proper burial to me. Better than the butter knife wrecking crane thing. Blaze of Glory, and all.
Sorry for the Hornet snark, it’s F-14 day on my Above and Beyond Desk Calendar.
Is that what that picture was? I thought it was just the Pratt and Whitneys coming apart on the hold-short at Oceana.
Boy the Iranians are gonna be pissed – there go some more of their spare parts…
Lex,
Can’t be an RA-5C ’cause it’s got two tails…
Sorta reminds me of that movie of the “Sewer Pipe” hiding under a revetment getting blasted Lex posted a cuppla years back.
Same theme.
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