You’ve no idea how long I’ve been waiting for this….
Secret Rocket Balls Target WMD Bunkers
The Pentagon has a new secret weapon to neutralize sites containing chemical or biological weapons: rocket balls. These are hollow spheres, made of rubberized rocket fuel; when ignited, they propel themselves around at random at high speed, bouncing off the walls and breaking through doors, turning the entire building into an inferno. The makers call them “kinetic fireball incendiaries.” The Pentagon doesn’t want to talk about them, but published documents show that the fireballs have undergone tests on underground bunkers.
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Each fireball is a hollow spherical shell with a hole in it; when the inside is ignited, the hole acts as a rocket nozzle. The kinetic fireballs eject an extremely high-temperature exhaust which will heat up the surrounding volume to over 1,000 F within seconds. Their random ricocheting around ensures that they will fill any space they occupy, and they are capable of diffusing throughout a multiroom structure.
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Wooops, (one of the) patent(s) http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7278356.html&ei=ZWocSb2lOZLe0gXN6oDyCQ&usg=AFQjCNGm2FReKRHrXYluhUAY2dedAZL5hg
If it can go through doors and up and down staircases, it can also go _out of windows_ if used inside of a building.
Although this is sure to get the attention of innocent bystanders, it might not be the best way to get their support for our anti-terrorist efforts, as they get chased down the street by it, like being pursued by a flaming version “Rover” out of “The Prisoner”.
Used inside of a cave, and you run into the old “drunk and lamp post” math problem… its motion is random, so unless you get it quite a ways into the cave before you ignite it, the damn thing may come right back out the cave entrance after you, and once unconfined by the cave, may start flying all over the place, scaring the living crap out of the troops using it.
I have _got_ to see a video of this thing in action. 🙂
Sounds like a giant roman candle 🙂
> If it can go through doors and up and down staircases, it can also go _out of windows_ if used inside of a building.
Yes, but getting in would be the result of intentional direction, either by being thrown, shot or rocketted in. Getting out would be the result of random chance.
Unless the exit was fairly large – and in the case of a cave, it’s almost certainly *not* large – then statistically the chances of escape are fairly small.