Eli5: What made Napalm so useful as a weapon of war and what were some of the drawbacks of its use in warfare?
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Napalm was primarily used to burn out dense foliage, like in the jungles of Vietnam. While its terrible if it gets on personnel, its mainly not an anti personnel weapon but an efficient tool to get rid of jungle cover. However, because it burns practically everything. using it against people, is terrifying, much like a flame thrower.
Napalm was primarily used to burn out dense foliage, like in the jungles of Vietnam. While its terrible if it gets on personnel, its mainly not an anti personnel weapon but an efficient tool to get rid of jungle cover. However, because it burns practically everything. using it against people, is terrifying, much like a flame thrower.
It ruins any sort of position an enemy has, they have to leave as it sticks to everything it touches… it requires full air superiority so it is quite rare in conventional warfare…
It ruins any sort of position an enemy has, they have to leave as it sticks to everything it touches… it requires full air superiority so it is quite rare in conventional warfare…
It ruins any sort of position an enemy has, they have to leave as it sticks to everything it touches… it requires full air superiority so it is quite rare in conventional warfare…
AOE Make people dead. If not dead they’d be poisoned for life… or until death. Just ask my dead uncle.
AOE Make people dead. If not dead they’d be poisoned for life… or until death. Just ask my dead uncle.
AOE Make people dead. If not dead they’d be poisoned for life… or until death. Just ask my dead uncle.
It’s insanely bad stuff. Imagine you get hit with it; you jump in a lake to put the fire/burning out and it still burns. Outlawed for the last 40 years
It’s insanely bad stuff. Imagine you get hit with it; you jump in a lake to put the fire/burning out and it still burns. Outlawed for the last 40 years
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