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.
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.
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.
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.
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!