Barrel bomb
A barrel bomb is an improvised explosive weapon that is dropped from aircraft.
description
Typically, a drum of a bomb with disintegrants filled and metal parts barrel . The destructive effect is based on the amount of explosives in such a container and the devastating effect of the metal parts, especially on " soft targets ".
Making barrel bombs is cheaper and easier than making regular aerial bombs. The explosive material can consist of fertilizers such as ammonium nitrate and heating oil ( ANC explosives ). Other metal vessels of various types and sizes can also be used as containers, for example modified old boilers or hot water boilers, which can also be provided with guide vanes . Fuses or impact fuses are used for ignition . These components, which largely come from the civilian sector, enable even internationally isolated states to build this weapon.
Due to the improvised arrangement, the explosive power and fragmentation effect of barrel bombs are significantly lower than with conventional fragmentation bombs , in which the type of explosive, shape and fragment casing have been optimized in a complex manner. Due to its nature, a targeted use is also questionable, which puts the military benefit in question. Human Rights Watch described the use of barrel bombs as "highly likely to be indiscriminate within the meaning of martial law and thus illegal" after the Iraqi army used barrel bombs.
commitment
Palestine
Barrel bombs were first used by the Irgun Tzwa'i Le'umi in terrorist attacks against the British mandate in Palestine . Trucks were used as a means of transport.
Vietnam
During the Vietnam War , barrel bombs were used by the US armed forces against camps of the Viet Cong , as well as in ultimately unsuccessful attempts to burn down forest areas.
Syria
The Syrian air force is said to have been using barrel bombs since August 2012 in the Syrian civil war . The Syrian government denies this.
Iraq
According to Human Rights Watch , the Iraqi army repeatedly used barrel bombs to fight ISIS, dropping them indiscriminately over densely populated areas, killing many civilians.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Damien McElroy: Syrian regime deploys deadly new weapons on rebels. ( German : The Syrian regime uses new weapons against the rebels. ). In: Telegraph . August 31, 2012, accessed December 31, 2013 .
- ↑ Syria's deadly barrel bombs. In: SMH.com.au . September 2, 2012, accessed on December 31, 2013 (English, ( German : Syriens tödliche Fassbomben. )).
- ↑ Torie Rose Deghett: The Build-It-Yourself Bombs. In: Foreign Policy . July 3, 2014, accessed February 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Barrel Bombs That Fall From The Sky: Assad's Insidious Cheap Weapon. In: n-tv .de. Retrieved February 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Iraq: Government attacks Fallujah hospital. In: Human Rights Watch . May 27, 2014, accessed February 10, 2015 .
- ↑ 10 Killed an 77 Injured In Haifa Reprisal Blast , The Day (New London), September 29, 1947, accessed February 20, 2016 (English).
- ^ J. Bowyer Bell: Terror Out of Zion: The Fight for Israeli Independence . Ed .: Transaction Publishers. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK) 1996, ISBN 978-1-56000-870-5 , pp. 245 .
- ↑ Ishaan Tharoor: When the US dropped barrel bombs in war , Washington Post, February 16, 2015
- ↑ Syrian army allegedly uses barrel bombs. In: DiePresse.com . December 22, 2013, accessed February 3, 2014 .
- ↑ n-tv news television: More than 20 dead in Aleppo: Assad army uses barrel bombs. In: n-tv.de. Retrieved April 28, 2016 .
- ↑ https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/05/syrias-circle-of-hell-barrel-bombs-in-aleppo/
- ↑ Syria conflict: BBC exclusive interview with President Bashar al-Assad. In: BBC News . February 10, 2015, accessed February 10, 2015 .
- ^ Iraq: Civilian Toll of Government Airstrikes , Human Rights Watch, July 22, 2014