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Flamethrowers and the inhumane warfare

(Picture I) Kimmo Huosionmaa Flamethrowers are classified as the "inhumane weapon", and they are prohibited to use in war since World War I when they made the most terrifying injuries for the troops in both sides. But the fire is one of the most effective weapons in the world because of humans afraid fire naturally, and this makes this horrifying weapon one of the most effective weapons in history.  Big size heavy flamethrowers were in the key role in the defense and offense in many battles in the WWI.  The weapon was prohibited in the same contract with the chemical weapons. But this contract was the "dead letter", and in the WWII both axis and allies used flamethrowers in their campaigns, and especially Germans published many pictures about men who were used this weapon. And United States army used that weapon against Japanese in the Pacific campaign. Flamethrowers played a big role in the battle of Iwo Jima and also Germans used that weapon in the Easter

Do you know, what could mean "chemical agent"?

QF-16 Drone Picture I http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.com/p/do-you-know-what-could-mean-chemical.html Kimmo Huosionmaa The term "chemical agent" is commonly used with nerve gases, and there is one very frightened meaning of that term. Agent means normally hidden or secretive working man or machine. And when we are thinking about the world "chemical agent", that could mean the chemical weapon, what have secretly installed to the bombs or some other equipment. The nerve gas is a very deadly chemical and that chemical could be very easily installed inside conventional bombs in capsule, what would be break by the normal explosive. That means that the nerve gas capsules would be put in the GP-bombs without telling that to the aircrew. In some cases, the phosphorous rockets can be put in the rocket cassettes, what are used in the tactical aircraft.  Phosphorous is an inhumane weapon, what is strictly prohibited in international contracts. But if s