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There are roughly three types of incendiary devices developed after World War II: napalm bombs, white phosphorus incendiary bombs, and thermite bombs.

These three types of arson weapons and ammunition are highly destructive and too cruel to use on personnel. With the signing of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons that May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, incendiary bombs As part of Protocol III: Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons, their use is prohibited.

However, let’s not talk about whether major powers such as the United States and Russia abide by these treaties. These treaties were formulated decades later, and naturally cannot be used to restrain the German army now.

White phosphorus incendiary bombs are extremely cruel weapons, and napalm only sticks to the skin and burns. White phosphorus bombs can burn all the way into the human body, until the bones burn to the marrow; thermite is even more exaggerated, its burning core temperature can reach a terrifying three thousand degrees, not to mention steel, even the metal with the highest melting point Tungsten can also melt it (melting point 3380 degrees).

Faced with Marshal Rundstedt's question, Yannick smiled. "Yes, this is a new type of incendiary bomb. But as you can see, there are two weapons. The first one is an upgraded and improved rocket." He briefly explained the advantages of the new rocket, and then continued to introduce thermite bombs.

In fact, the principle of thermite is very simple. It is so simple that you can learn the thermite reaction in junior high school chemistry class, which is the reaction between metal aluminum and certain metal oxides under high heat conditions. Because the heat released during the thermite reaction can melt high-melting-point metals and flow out, thermite method is widely used in welding rescue projects, such as connecting rails into a long rail.

In addition to civilian use, military applications are more extensive. For example, thermite component is installed in the nozzle of the projectile. Because the reaction temperature is extremely high, it is used to make incendiary bombs, which can melt through armor and greatly increase the lethality. In the book "Rocket Launcher" written by former Soviet scientists, it is mentioned that the rocket warhead charge contains thermite.

Or it can be used to make infantry anti-tank grenades. General anti-tank weapons are difficult to penetrate when facing thick armor. Thermite bombs completely ignore the thickness of the armor and can continue to burn as long as the reactant is still there. In addition, thermite is also used as a weapon to destroy enemy equipment in combat. For example, if you make a surprise attack on the enemy's artillery position, and the enemy is preparing to counterattack to recapture the artillery, then you can use a thermite grenade to stuff into the barrel of the artillery to burn the barrel of the artillery into iron slag.

Later, the largest ammunition depot in Ukraine was attacked by a terrorist attack. It stands to reason that the entire ammunition depot was enclosed in thick cement walls, and there were nearly a hundred soldiers guarding the periphery. It would be impossible to raid and detonate the ammunition depot from the ground. So, then How exactly was this explosion caused?

Anti-government militants used a drone to drop a Russian-made ZMG-1 thermite grenade from the ammunition depot. In just five minutes, the thermite grenade caused a local small explosion in the ammunition depot, and then these small explosions An irreversible chain reaction was triggered, and eventually a violent explosion occurred. A large ammunition depot was destroyed by a small thermite grenade.

Different formulas of thermite can also be made into torpedo warheads, depth bombs, etc. Thermite that explodes in water produces a secondary explosion due to reduction and decomposition reactions, which is conducive to the expansion and pressurization of bubbles in the water, causing greater damage.

In addition to the individual rocket launcher (the most famous one should be the quadruple rocket launcher that appeared in Schwarzenegger's movie "Alone in the Dragon Pool", its prototype is the US military M202 shoulder-fired flamethrower, loaded with 66 mm incendiary (thermite) rockets, four salvos can cover a burning area of ​​500 square meters), anti-ship missiles, anti-aircraft weapons, anti-tank armor-piercing projectiles, etc. Thermite can be added to most warheads to increase their power. .

"As long as a certain proportion (5% to 10%) of thermite is added to ordinary high-explosive bombs, the temperature generated during the explosion will be enough to melt steel." Although thermite is terrible, it would not be used directly to make bombs. Reality. Most aluminum in nature exists in a compounded state, mainly aluminum oxide. Although the production cost of aluminum has dropped significantly after the electrolysis method was invented, it is still a big investment if tons and tons are used to make disposable explosives.

Therefore, the best choice is to use thermite as an additive to increase the temperature of explosives during explosion and increase the thermal energy radiation and penetration during explosion.

"It's amazing." Everyone couldn't help but be overjoyed. The temperature was enough to melt steel, so even enemy personnel hiding in ordinary fortifications would be burned to ashes.

Everyone continued to move forward and saw a big hole in the turret of a Jackal tank, and they couldn't help but admire it.

Across the Atlantic, the United States is also stepping up the development of their new weapons. One of them is a new navigation method jointly developed by the U.S. Navy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to allow glide bombs dropped from high altitudes to automatically hit enemy warships on the sea.

The person in charge of this research project is Dr. Borges Frederick Skinner, an American behaviorist psychologist, a representative of new behaviorism, and the founder of operant conditioning theory.

Dr. Skinner imaginatively chose pigeons as the guidance system for the portrait bomb. This guidance principle comes from the conditioned reflex of animals. Dr. Skinner believes that pigeons have good judgment on targets. The pigeons were put into a special small cage inside the bomb. A screen was installed in the cage. This screen is similar to the touch screen of later mobile phones. When the mark appears on the screen, the current generated on the screen is based on the direction of the pigeon's pecking. Control the flight trajectory of the bomb to achieve the purpose of guidance.

After conditioned reflex training with cannabis-infused food and ship graphics, the pigeons will continue to peck at the ship graphics on the screen in order to obtain food. The fastest can reach 10,000 times in 45 minutes. This frequency is enough to guide gliding to attack the target. Dr. Skinner also considered multiple insurances in his design. He put three pigeons in the same cockpit. If any one pecks the wrong target, the "three brothers" will starve together until they correct their mistake.

After a period of training, several groups of pigeons have achieved an astonishing 90% target acquisition success rate. Dr. Skinner excitedly reported the research results to the Navy Department. "General Leahy, our experiment went very well and we can move to the next stage." That is to install this "navigation system" into the glide bomb for final verification.

General Leahy said with great excitement. "Great, I'll arrange it right away!"