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Thanks, that article is very useful in understanding the technology. Meanwhile here's a brand new article which focuses more on why the regime might be using barrel bombs, and whether that's instead of in addition to conventional bombs: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Dec-24/242165-regimes-latest-weapon-simple-but-deadly.ashx#axzz2oPedP32U The article, like most I found by googling, quotes Brown Moses extensively. Good work! On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > > On 12/24/13 9:49 AM, Andrew Pollack wrote: > >> But here's my question: if you have room in your plane for such weapons, >> and your goal is just to kill anything in a given wide area, what's the >> advantage of such low-tech bombs? Why not two or three of the standard >> higher firepower bombs instead of a dozen smaller ones? >> > > Actually MIG's are not set up for such devices, only helicopters from > which they are dropped at a height too great to ensure any kind of > accuracy. It seems that rebels--probably those with good connections in > Saudi Arabia--have now got their hands on some MANPAD's. That is why there > is so much "collateral damage" as if al-Assad really cared. > > The topic is examined in great deal at Brown Moses (surprise, surprise): > > http://brown-moses.blogspot.com/2013/12/syrias-barrel- > bomb-technology-relative.html > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/ > marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
