It sounds like the worst contradiction in terms: environmentally friendly bombs. And no, it’s not a story from the Onion this time around. Calling something green that’s designed to blow up its surroundings when it hits its target is just – well – dumb. Yet, scientists are working on a bomb that would [...]
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Nobody ever said Boeing engineers aren’t smart. They’ve come up with a way to make C-17s into firefighters that drop collapsible, biodegradable containers of water onto blazes – putting fewer human firefighters into harm’s way. Beach-ball sized ‘water bombs’ are stacked on pallets within cardboard containers.
From Boeing:
The unit’s spherical shape minimizes airflow resistance. Each sphere [...]
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