Re:Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams righ...
by marssaxman on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:12PM
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What about it seems unlikely?
While I have never tried to combine the two activities, I do have some experience both flying drones and using thermite; the video showing a drone pouring a stream of molten metal down onto a line of trees looked straightforward enough that I could easily imagine how it might have been done. Thermite is not a complicated technology!
Re:Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams righ...
by stop50 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @04:28PM
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The geneva conventions apply only for wounded and sick on land(geneva convention I), wounded and sick on sea(geneva convention II), captured soldiers(geneva convention III) and at last civilians.
The Hague Conventions on the other hand limit what weapons can be used. in the 1899 article IV may be violated.
Re:Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams righ...
by dilyevsky on Thursday September 05, 2024 @02:05PM
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Incendiaries are not banned for military targets. Even white phosphorus is only “restricted” such that you need to take precautions regarding collateral damage. And GC specifically doesn’t regulate arms it mainly deals with prisoners and such.
Re:Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams righ...
by aguaviva on Saturday September 07, 2024 @02:39PM
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In the most recent strike on Lviv's historic center to which you are referring, 7 people were killed, including nearly an entire family of 5 (and wounding 35 others):
Of the five members of her family, only Yaroslav, Daryna’s father, is now alive, a lone survivor of a Russian strike on their home in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Wednesday.
According to eyewitnesses, Daryna, 18, her sisters Yaryna, 21, and Emilia, 7, and their 43-year-old mother Yevhenia were killed while sheltering in the staircase of their residential building, the Ukrainian emergency services said.
Curiously, you are choosing not only to omit this information, but to depict the result of the strike as something entirely different from what it was.
Re:Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams righ...
by protomolecule on Saturday September 07, 2024 @03:16PM
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Is it me who is depicting the result of the strike as something entirely different?
Quoting the article you linked to:
...Because of the early hour, no children or staff were in the schools.
...suffered damage to dozens of windows and classroom doors
...damage to over 100 windows as well as doors and the main gate
How is that "Russia is blowing up schools in Lviv"? Clearly the target was something else in the vicinity.
Attributing callous and senseless acts to Russia is so common in Ukrainian and western propaganda that people like you and the author of the comment I replied to don't even ask themselves "why"? Why would Russians do something that rotten from the moral point of view and so wasteful from the purely military pov? Because they are stupid savage beasts, that's why!
Re:Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams righ...
by squarefoot on Thursday September 05, 2024 @02:23PM
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As much as this is horrifying no matter from which point of view one looks at it, also because many of the Russian soldiers were either lured or coerced into fighting a war they didn't want against their close relatives, let's not forget that it all started with an invasion. Putin wanted it and he is responsible with all those who support him for all consequences.
While I have never tried to combine the two activities, I do have some experience both flying drones and using thermite; the video showing a drone pouring a stream of molten metal down onto a line of trees looked straightforward enough that I could easily imagine how it might have been done. Thermite is not a complicated technology!
Not that I think it is necessarily a smart move on the part of Ukraine, since Russia can play this game too.
The Hague Conventions on the other hand limit what weapons can be used. in the 1899 article IV may be violated.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon#United_Stat...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon#United_King...
The attacks also damaged seven educational facilities, including a primary school and three secondary schools, including Lyceums 5 and 17:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/05/deadly-russian-attacks-l...
Russia's defence ministry said that "all designated targets had been hit":
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqj35jv3e7o
Curiously, you are choosing not only to omit this information, but to depict the result of the strike as something entirely different from what it was.
Quoting the article you linked to:
How is that "Russia is blowing up schools in Lviv"? Clearly the target was something else in the vicinity.Attributing callous and senseless acts to Russia is so common in Ukrainian and western propaganda that people like you and the author of the comment I replied to don't even ask themselves "why"? Why would Russians do something that rotten from the moral point of view and so wasteful from the purely military pov? Because they are stupid savage beasts, that's why!
Now here is something new for you -- Ukraine blowing up kindergarden in Russia for real: https://t.me/readovkanews/86042
"All designated targets had been hit", said the Russian Defense Ministry.
Why would Russians do something that rotten from the moral point of view and so wasteful from the purely military pov?
Ask your neighbors.