blackfive.net - 1/5/2009
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I'm not an expert - far from it - but may I hazard a guess? It looks to me like they're firing artillery shells filled with incendiary submunitions. In a sense like an artillery-delivered cluster bomb. An altitude fuse presumably causes a small charge to fire and disperse the sub-munitions at a ...
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