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.
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.
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.