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  MK-77 - Dumb Bombs
A fire bomb is a thin skinned container of fuel gel designed for use against dug-in troops, supply installations, wooden structures, and land convoys.
Fire bombs rupture on impact and spread burning fuel gel on surrounding objects.
The MK77 familiy is an evolution of the incendiary bombs M-47 and M-74, used during the conflict in Korea and the war in Vietnam.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/dumb/mk77.htm   (989 words)

  
  Mark 77 bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mark 77 is a US 750-lb (340-kg) air-dropped incendiary bomb that carries a fuel gel mix that is the direct successor to napalm.
Use of incendiary bombs against civilian populations was banned in the 1980 United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
The chemical used differs from napalm of the Vietnam War era in that it is based on kerosene and a polystyrene-like gel and reportedly contains an oxidizing agent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_77_bomb   (297 words)

  
 Mark 77 bomb -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mk-77s were used by the (An amphibious division of the United States Navy) US Marine Corps during the (A war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders; 1990-1991) Gulf War.
Use of incendiary bombs against civilian populations was banned in a 1980 (An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security) United Nations Convention.
The Mk-77 is the only incendiary bomb currently in use by the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States Military.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mark_77_bomb.htm   (316 words)

  
 Defense Tech: Ammo and Munitions Archives
The thermobaric bomb is just about the most vicious weapon you can imagine -- igniting the air, sucking the oxygen out of an enclosed area, and creating a massive pressure wave crushing anything unfortunate enough to have lived through the conflagration.
Thermobaric bombs, which the U.S. military is striving to perfect, may also be emerging as a weapon of choice for terrorists, according to a bomb expert at Battelle, a research institute...
Real-time data from the bombs as they penetrate soil and the reinforced concrete of an underground structure en route to detonation would contribute to the overall assessment of the strike's effectiveness and help determine if a subsequent attack is necessary, the USAF says.
www.defensetech.org /archives/cat_ammo_and_munitions.html   (4688 words)

  
 The Devilfinder Search Engine - Mark 77 bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Finding Stuff Since 1979.
The Mark 77 is a US 750-lb (340-kg) air-dropped incendiary bomb that carries a fuel gel...
Bomb threats were made on three of the aircraft, but not on American 77.
A bomb sniffing dog was brought in and the dog detected the presence of TNT and RDX plastic...
www.devilfinder.com /find.php?q=Mark+77+bomb+-+Wikipedia%2C+the+free+encyclopedia   (4867 words)

  
 Varieties of American Bombs
This cluster bomb is also used to destroy human bodies and destroy light skinned military or civilian vehicles.
A newer version of the MK-20 Rockeye cluster bomb, the CBU 59 is used against both modern armor and human bodies.
This cluster bomb is intended to destroy both lightly armored vehicles and human beings.
www.againstbombing.org /Washbombs.htm   (1315 words)

  
 MK-77 - Dumb Bombs
A fire bomb is a thin skinned container of fuel gel designed for use against dug-in troops, supply installations, wooden structures, and land convoys.
The MK77 familiy is an evolution of the incendiary bombs M-47 and M-74, used during the conflict in Korea and the war in Vietnam.
The Mk 77 Mod 5 firebombs are incendiary devices with a function indentical to earlier Mk 77 napalm weapons.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/munitions/mk77.htm   (1366 words)

  
 The Devilfinder Search Engine - Google bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Finding Stuff Since 1979.
A Google bomb or Google wash is a certain attempt to influence the ranking of a...
A Justice Bomb (used as both a noun and a verb) is a form of a Google Bomb...
That said, Japanese bomb survivors who were fetal at the time of the dose have shown responses down so low as...
www.devilfinder.com /find.php?q=Google+bomb+-+Wikipedia%2C+the+free+encyclopedia   (4617 words)

  
 MK-77 - GlobalTruth
The Mark 77 bomb (MK-77) is a US 750-lb (340 kg) air-dropped incendiary bomb carrying 110 US gallons (415 litres) of a fuel gel mix which is the direct successor to napalm.
The effects of MK-77 bombs are so similar to those of napalm that even many members of the US military continue to refer to them as "napalm" bombs in informal situations.
Later variants of the bomb were modified to be carry a reduced load of 75 gallons (284 litres) of fuel, which resulted in the total weight decreasing to around 230 kg (550 lb).
en.wiki.globaltruth.org /MK-77   (962 words)

  
 Mark Byron
Would you open a Jeb Bush piece with "He's no J.R. Ewing?" Her problem is that she had no national track record before she hit the national stage and became the bad cop of the piece for those on the left.
Could he literally be retiring to "spend more time with his family?" Good news on the baseball front, the Tigers are about to hire Alan Trammell as their new manager.
Not everyone in the Commonwealth likes the idea of having their governments being ruled on paper by a "old bitty in London"; the Australians had an referendum in 1999 where they turned down changing the country into a republic, but only by a 46-54 margin.
markbyron.blogspot.com /2002_10_06_markbyron_archive.html   (11235 words)

  
 Mark 77 bomb: Encyclopedia II - Mark 77 bomb - Use in Iraq and Afghanistan
Mark 77 bomb - Use in Iraq and Afghanistan: Encyclopedia II - Mark 77 bomb - Use in Iraq and Afghanistan
Mark 77 bomb, Mark 77 bomb - Use in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mark 77 bomb - Pentagon misinforms UK Ministry of Defence, Mark 77 bomb - Endnotes, Mark 77 bomb - Use in Iraq
The MK 77 firebomb does not have the same composition as napalm, although it has similar destructive characteristics.
www.experiencefestival.com /a/Mark_77_bomb_-_Use_in_Iraq_and_Afghanistan/id/5277374   (600 words)

  
 12/05/04 Na   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mark 77, a subsidiary of RoveCo International, has traveled to the exotic lands of the Middle East to capture for you the essence of the mystical land of Iraq!
Mark 77, with a mixture of bold aromas, has captured for you the very conflict and sexualized tension of this godforsaken land.
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www.dudehisattva.com /120504_napalme.htm   (554 words)

  
 1976-77   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mark Hosenball, an American reporter, was accused with another American, an ex-CIA agent, Philip Agee, of being a threat to national security and ordered to be deported from Britain.
A bomb explodes at the La Mon House Hotel on the outskirts of Belfast.
The Provisional IRA killed Earl Mountbatten and his grandson another young man, the Dowager Lady Bradbourne when a bomb blew up his fishing boat just as it was leaving Mullaghmore harbour, County Sligo, in the Irish Republic.
www.honestitsnorthernireland.com /1976-77.htm   (1819 words)

  
 Mark Byron
# posted by Mark @ 2/04/2003 03:32:05 PM It's Bene!-There was an interesting development at the Gannsies, where Josh Claybourn stated that the Favorite Christian Blog winner Bene Diction was a "she." Bene is carefully coy about the gender issue.
While everyone is busy being upset at the radical left (see a small victory), for their disgusting reaction to a tragedy, I thought, just to give some balance, I should point out that the radical-right wingnuts (hate-site warning) are just as bad.
It seems like ancient history hearing NPR pieces in the 80s about the Charter 77 movement he headed up, trying to get the then-communist government to live up to their human rights pledges of the Helsinki Agreement.
markbyron.blogspot.com /2003_02_02_markbyron_archive.html   (11676 words)

  
 Context of '1942'
The United States uses Mark 77 firebombs, an incendiary weapon that has virtually the same effect as napalm (see 1942), in Iraq.
It is later learned (see August 2003) that the actual weapons were Mark 77 Firebombs, an incendiary weapon that has virtually the same effect as napalm.
Yet these bombs continued to be referred to as napalm, or “Napalm-B.” Therefore critics say that by substituting jet fuel for gasoline, the military had just developed a more advanced napalm bomb.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /context.jsp?item=us_military_1758   (715 words)

  
 Nazi Atom Bomb
Goudsmit extracted two elements from these conversations-talk of the morality of the bomb and discussions of how it was designed and built-and concluded that the Germans didn't know how to build a bomb and had concocted a phony story of moral reservations to explain their failure.
Among the scientists, Kurt Diebner's group was convinced that a bomb made of uranium 235 or plutonium might be built with destructive potential a million times greater than the equivalent amount of dynamite.
At that meeting, Heisenberg chose to focus on the development of reactors and cyclotrons and pronounced atomic bombs to be a development for the future, not for the war.
www.taivaansusi.net /historia/Bomb.htm   (5063 words)

  
 Mark 77 bomb
Mark 77 bomb is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
On 9 November, 2005 the Italian state-run broadcaster RAI ran a documentary titled "Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre" depicting the United States' use of white phosphorus (WP) in the attack causing insurgents and civilians to be injured by chemical burns or killed.
Weight-for-weight, phosphorus is the most effective smoke-screening agent known, for two reasons: It absorbs most of the screening mass from the surrounding atmosphere; and The smoke particles are actually an aerosol, a mist of liquid droplets which are close to the ideal range of sizes for Mie scattering of visible light.
www.experiencefestival.com /mark_77_bomb   (2497 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Shoot-down order issued on morning of chaos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld thought a bomb had exploded at the Pentagon, even though the military defense command had been warned 12 minutes before impact that an errant airliner was headed toward Washington.
Cheney was told that six planes had been commandeered, that a helicopter had plunged into the Pentagon, that a car bomb had blown up the State Department, and that a plane had crashed in Ohio.
As the tragedy was unfolding, Mark Kettenhofen was pleading with his wife, Suzette, to get out of the Pentagon, but Suzette, who maintains the Navy's Web site, was reluctant to leave.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/09/16/pentagon-timeline.htm   (881 words)

  
 Mercury - Flowers mark bomb site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The train, about 30m beneath the ground between King’s Cross and Russell Square stations, north London, was ripped apart in the deadliest of four bomb blasts against the underground rail network and a bus last Thursday.
Similar messages are also assembled down the road at Russell Square, which is closed to the public while rescue workers and forensic experts delve for the dead as well as for clues that might lead them to the culprits.
High walls of plastic sheeting shroud the grisly task under way as police and firemen struggle to reach the front carriage of the train — where the bomb exploded — which is jammed hundreds of metres down the track, in temperatures reaching 60C and amid rats, dust and possibly asbestos.
www.themercury.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=284&fArticleId=2621527   (476 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Spanish government admits defeat
The poll was overshadowed by claims that al-Qaeda carried out the Madrid bomb attacks that killed 200 people.
If al-Qaeda was responsible for Thursday's attacks, it appears to have had significant influence in changing the government of a leading Western democracy, he says.
Investigations are continuing into who was behind the bombings.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3511280.stm   (661 words)

  
 ZNet |Terror War | The Fire Shower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The MK77's are dumb bombs, meaning that they aren't guided by anything, once they're dropped from a plane they hit the ground, and their contents is released.
However, the bomb still scatters burning gel; that sticks to things and won' t be extinguished by water, either leaving victims incinerated or horribly wounded.
What the Marines dropped, the spokesmen said yesterday, were "Mark 77 firebombs." They acknowledged those are incendiary devices with a function"remarkably similar" to napalm weapons.
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=7059   (2078 words)

  
 Where is the Plane, Flight 77?
This allows us to mark out the maximum (physically possible) area covered by the fireball at the time the photo was taken.
Remember, that this circle represents the maximum area covered by the fireball (at least the part of it that was in front of the Pentagon) at the time that the "impact 2" photo was taken.
This lie was meant to hide the fact that a bombing attack was in fact carried out by a group of people who had authorized access to the Pentagon and that the target was not the Department of Defense in general but the new Navy Command Center.
www.apfn.org /apfn/flight77.htm   (3651 words)

  
 Everything isn't Under Control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Death by napalm comes either through burn or asphyxiation.
Wired had an article a little while back about a portable fuel air bomb that could asphyxiate a large crowd or a group of soldiers.
How this and napalm isn't a chemical weapon (which almost all are banned) is beyond me.
www.everythingisnt.com /archives/00000695.htm   (245 words)

  
 Video Bomb - Mark Foley EXPOSED
The sequel to the now famous Mark Foley IM dramatization.
Video Bomb lets you make a collection of videos that you find anywhere on the web.
When you click the link, Video Bomb will look for a video file on the page that you are viewing and fill in the URL and title fields on the submit form.
www.videobomb.com /posts/show/5160   (200 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US misled UK over Iraq fire bombs
The MoD repeatedly denied Mark 77 incendiary bombs were dropped, on the basis of US assurances.
US Marines dropped 30 Mark 77 fire bombs between March 31 and April 2 2003 "against military targets away from civilian areas".
Mr Hoon was denying the use of incendiary bombs, on the basis of what he was told, as late as April this year.
www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1518793,00.html   (350 words)

  
 Transparent Grid » U.S. ACCUSED OF USING ‘NAPALM’
He said pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burnt the skin even when water was thrown on the burns.
What State is admitting to is that the Marines did use the Mark 77 during the invasion, as reported by the Indpendent on August 10, 2003:
But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking ‘thing’ on the ground, and then no further movement.” Martin Caidin, The Night Hamburg Died.
www.transparentgrid.com /wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/06/30/747   (1362 words)

  
 Political Affairs Magazine - Fire Bombs in Iraq: Napalm By Any Other Name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A fire bomb is a thin-skinned container of fuel gel.
Known as the MK-77 Mod 5, the bombs are dropped from aircraft and ignite on impact.
It is an evolution of the napalm bombs M-47 and M-74 that were used in Vietnam and Korea.
www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/966/1/32   (1994 words)

  
 CNN.com - Chinese mark Yugoslav embassy bomb - December 3, 2000
The attack, which both NATO and Washington said was a mistake, sparked violent anti-NATO demonstrations both in Belgrade and in China, putting Beijing's diplomatic relations with the United States on ice.
Speaking after talks, Labus, who is in charge of foreign economic relations, also said China was interested in completing a $200 million trade agreement sealed with Milosevic's government, of which $77 million has not been used.
China strongly opposed the 78-day bombing campaign to drive Yugoslav forces out of Kosovo and, along with Russia and other non-Western countries, had been a close ally of Milosevic.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/12/03/yugoslavia.china   (578 words)

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