UK uses lung-shredder to kill rebels
Written by Quqnoos.com foreign desk
Sunday, 22 June 2008 17:32

Britain’s defence ministry admits use of 'brutal' missile to London paper

BRITISH troops have used missiles in Afghanistan which suck the air out of human targets, shred their internal organs and crush their bodies, according to a leading British newspaper.

The Hellfire missiles, also known as vacuum bombs, are condemned by human rights groups as "brutal".

Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) admitted to the London Times newspaper that its soldiers had fired the controversial thermobaric weapons, used to kill fighters in buildings and caves, from Apache attack helicopters in Afghanistan.

The MoD said the Hellfire AGM-114N, which creates a human-crushing vacuum with a second explosion, had proved so successful that the missile will now be fired from unmanned predator drones.

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See also, AGM-114N Metal Augmented Charge (MAC) Thermobaric Hellfire

This is but a symptom of the real problem.

War is brutal by its very nature.

We need to make Love, not war, literally.

Once they attach these new Hellfire_2 bombs to drones, what the chances of the the targeted shooting down a drone and recovering the bomb frags to determine what this new technology is?

How long before an arms dealer sells them to the "enemy" How long before these bombs are used on the "Green Zone" or less secure troop camps?

It's just a short matter of time.

It's just a fuel/air bomb. Nothing new about it.