Bombs then marketed as ‘battle-proven’ as genocidal regime profits from its maimed and murdered victims Tungsten microcubes in the shredded limb of a victim in Gaza. The Israeli militar…
The “tungsten micro-cube shrapnel” is evergreen for whatever reason, first time I heard it mentioned was probably >15 years ago. I’ve always assumed some stuff is reported ahead of actual testing for various reasons (gauging public reaction? Spying on how information disseminated?) and some is just getting iterated on, inherently has poor results, or just happens to be the latest prototypes on hand when they resume mass physical violence.
is this really something that comes up frequently?
idk, seems like a weapon specifically designed to obfuscate the body’s natural response to damage in order to generally increase mortality is 101% a gigantic war crime under any reasonable conventions.
The “tungsten micro-cube shrapnel” is evergreen for whatever reason, first time I heard it mentioned was probably >15 years ago. I’ve always assumed some stuff is reported ahead of actual testing for various reasons (gauging public reaction? Spying on how information disseminated?) and some is just getting iterated on, inherently has poor results, or just happens to be the latest prototypes on hand when they resume mass physical violence.
is this really something that comes up frequently?
idk, seems like a weapon specifically designed to obfuscate the body’s natural response to damage in order to generally increase mortality is 101% a gigantic war crime under any reasonable conventions.
Yeah here’s Wired covering it in 2009, alluding to 2006 reporting on dense inert metal explosives (DIME):