Probably bullshit. I've never seen a thermobaric bomb or damage, but
1.) a thermobaric bomb's purpose is to burn people and to burn oxygen for suffocating people. Harming people was clearly a no-no here.
2.) a thermobaric bomb must explode quickly for dispersing the fuel over a large space, but does not do as much damage as conventional explosives. Usually dropped from airplanes during raids. Why all the effort for something inappropriate?
3.) at least one explosion came from inside the AT&T building, as evidenced by videos and square manhole damage. A thermobaric bomb is for scorching dug-in people outdoors.
The relatively little damage (in the relatively confined space of the street) with all the soot is more or less like that in the oaklahoma city bombing and the oslo bombing, both of which were fertilizer bombs, only much bigger. Armyfags or naysayer who know better are welcome here. I'm a larp and want to know better, too.
Yeah, I was just about to say this. Thermobaric weapons consume oxygen, which makes them good for suffocation in tunnels, but they also generate a sustained blast wave, which makes them good for busting fortifications.
FBI is inventing a way for there to be a bomb when there is no evidence of a bomb. FBI: "Bomber left the stove on and then lit a match at the right moment"... Bull shit.
THX. That's the point the FBI wants to drive home here, but it is strange that they are somewhat sabotaging the official narrative. As another poster pointed out, they might want to smear the military. I'm not surprised, because Nashville was not done by a disgruntled boomer. The question is whether the perps wanted to blow up the data center or cut communication. A connection to election fraud is not far-fetched. What's more, there were those anon-pics before and after shit was going down, what would support that the datacenter was targeted.
Respectfully, this isn't how or why thermobarics work. A thermobaric bomb has fuel and possibly oxidizer dispersed in the air, and this cloud is then ignited creating an explosion.
It's effective in bunkers because the explosion is dispersed in all the "nooks and crannies" instead of radiating out from a central point. The burning up the oxygen is part of what makes it effective in bunkers...you don't have to collapse or burn the whole thing, you can just smother the personnel.
I said in the other comment they could be using the thermobsric explanation to cover for a bomb planted in the interior.
I have thought that is why the bomb went off in the morning at dawn. It was timed for the air to be as still as possible. A strong wind would disperse the fuel and render the bomb much less effective.
If that's true, then they could be using the thermobaric explanation as a cover for why the blast came from within the building...aerosol dispersed inside, then ignited from outside. Kind bullshit if that's what they're trying to make us think.
The way thermobaric bombs work is initially there is a push as the fuel burns in the air. The heated air creates a shockwave as the air expands. As the air cools it creates a vacuum and air rushes back into that void, which could explain why the building looks as if the explosion happened inside. The initial shockwave breaks the exterior structure, and the subsequent vacuum sucks the debris out toward the street.
Probably bullshit. I've never seen a thermobaric bomb or damage, but
1.) a thermobaric bomb's purpose is to burn people and to burn oxygen for suffocating people. Harming people was clearly a no-no here.
2.) a thermobaric bomb must explode quickly for dispersing the fuel over a large space, but does not do as much damage as conventional explosives. Usually dropped from airplanes during raids. Why all the effort for something inappropriate?
3.) at least one explosion came from inside the AT&T building, as evidenced by videos and square manhole damage. A thermobaric bomb is for scorching dug-in people outdoors.
The relatively little damage (in the relatively confined space of the street) with all the soot is more or less like that in the oaklahoma city bombing and the oslo bombing, both of which were fertilizer bombs, only much bigger. Armyfags or naysayer who know better are welcome here. I'm a larp and want to know better, too.
Yeah, I was just about to say this. Thermobaric weapons consume oxygen, which makes them good for suffocation in tunnels, but they also generate a sustained blast wave, which makes them good for busting fortifications.
What is the fuel? I was parroting what I remember (perhaps incorrectly) war nerd Gary Brecher said, but he rarely talked about technical details.
k, did not know
Good point.
Bunker buster bombs are not thermobaric. Typically they are filled with high explosive.
Also, if this was a fuel air bomb it points to a state actor. Regular people don't have the money to do the testing required for such devices.
THX. That's the point the FBI wants to drive home here, but it is strange that they are somewhat sabotaging the official narrative. As another poster pointed out, they might want to smear the military. I'm not surprised, because Nashville was not done by a disgruntled boomer. The question is whether the perps wanted to blow up the data center or cut communication. A connection to election fraud is not far-fetched. What's more, there were those anon-pics before and after shit was going down, what would support that the datacenter was targeted.
Respectfully, this isn't how or why thermobarics work. A thermobaric bomb has fuel and possibly oxidizer dispersed in the air, and this cloud is then ignited creating an explosion.
It's effective in bunkers because the explosion is dispersed in all the "nooks and crannies" instead of radiating out from a central point. The burning up the oxygen is part of what makes it effective in bunkers...you don't have to collapse or burn the whole thing, you can just smother the personnel.
I said in the other comment they could be using the thermobsric explanation to cover for a bomb planted in the interior.
I have thought that is why the bomb went off in the morning at dawn. It was timed for the air to be as still as possible. A strong wind would disperse the fuel and render the bomb much less effective.
This is how I understood it, but understood "dug in" as "trenches"
They obviously tried to avoid casualties by audio with warnings, so that can't be a motive here.
That's a good comment, but it ruins the narrative that a state actor was at work.
Thanks for respect for a larp!
If that's true, then they could be using the thermobaric explanation as a cover for why the blast came from within the building...aerosol dispersed inside, then ignited from outside. Kind bullshit if that's what they're trying to make us think.
The way thermobaric bombs work is initially there is a push as the fuel burns in the air. The heated air creates a shockwave as the air expands. As the air cools it creates a vacuum and air rushes back into that void, which could explain why the building looks as if the explosion happened inside. The initial shockwave breaks the exterior structure, and the subsequent vacuum sucks the debris out toward the street.
Thanks for that extra clue; (I did put that fact into the list above)
You are right; sharper eyes than t. poster. And I tried. Hard.