Flit’s resident weapons expert Bruce Rolston has several really insightful posts on Strategic bombers. And sandwiched between is a link to his December discussions of thermobaric munitions, which as Bruce notes “is what you call a fuel-air bomb when the good guys use it.” protein wisdom provides you with some December backstory of its own, below. [update: Bruce has added a third installment] [update 2: For some reason, the archive

Flit’s resident weapons expert Bruce Rolston has several really insightful posts on Strategic bombers. And sandwiched between is a link to his December discussions of thermobaric munitions, which as Bruce notes “is what you call a fuel-air bomb when the good guys use it.” protein wisdom provides you with some December backstory of its own, below. [update: Bruce has added a third installment] [update 2: For some reason, the archive

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