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The explosion can be air burst with zero damage.
"There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon
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I assume they are air burst rounds. Seems it would be a more effective dispersal method.
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Oops. Didn't see pals response.
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
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 The only thing I've seen in NE is corn! Eastern half is corn. Western half is pasture (except close to rivers like along I-80 and the Platte River). With a few small rivers going through that give us some much needed relief with a whole ton of cedars and cottonwoods.  Thanks for the geography lesson. I'm an I-80 visitor!
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Must work. Thanks to artillery, after about 1915-16, they had no real forest fires in no mans land.  They also had no trees to burn either!!
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I assume they are air burst rounds. Seems it would be a more effective dispersal method. But the real question is, "Can they lay down a line of retardant?" A 155mm artillery shell (the largest in the US inventory) is only 6" in diameter. A retardant line must be about 100" wide and several hundred yards long. How many 155mm artillery shells would it take to do this? Keep in mind that water (and the water mixture in a chemical retardant) evaporates in the 3,000 degree heat of a forest fire!
Last edited by djs; 08/31/16.
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