@Silent Wing
Actually, no, it’s not. The “chemical weapons” in the movie were purely Hollywood inventions, and pretty laughable ones at that. Actual military CW is usually loaded as a bulk liquid into hollow artillery shells or missile warheads, with a small, low-power “burster charge” to break open the shell case and cause the liquid to be sprayed out as a fine mist. Packing the stuff in frangable spheres like in the movie may have looked cool and scary, but it makes no practical sense.
@AaronMk
No, go and watch The Rock. It’s an odd movie, to be certain, and it has Nick Cage in it (and he directed it) so you know it’ll be ridiculous.
It’s common for biological weapon missiles, or chemical weapon missiles, to contain balls much like these. The warhead explodes, causing the acids, gases, or what have you to be launched into the air around the explosion site.
Ah yes, that highly lethal neurotoxin that can kill an entire city block with just one tiny dose.
/> Shoves it in a bad guy’s mouth and makes his jaw break the container, not thinking that he can easily breathe it into your face or that human flesh is not a very reliable container for gas.
@Ereiam
Indeed. They are pretty much a last resort thing. “We can’t poke him with the needle to get the stuff in anywhere else, we gotta stab him in the heart. Someone pick up that intern, she fainted.”
Especially if given speed
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Actually, no, it’s not. The “chemical weapons” in the movie were purely Hollywood inventions, and pretty laughable ones at that. Actual military CW is usually loaded as a bulk liquid into hollow artillery shells or missile warheads, with a small, low-power “burster charge” to break open the shell case and cause the liquid to be sprayed out as a fine mist. Packing the stuff in frangable spheres like in the movie may have looked cool and scary, but it makes no practical sense.
and what if the missile explodes in the water?
Winner winner, chicken dinner!
No, go and watch The Rock. It’s an odd movie, to be certain, and it has Nick Cage in it (and he directed it) so you know it’ll be ridiculous.
It’s common for biological weapon missiles, or chemical weapon missiles, to contain balls much like these. The warhead explodes, causing the acids, gases, or what have you to be launched into the air around the explosion site.
There’s a reason we don’t use them practically.
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Vocal Chord parasprites?
/> Shoves it in a bad guy’s mouth and makes his jaw break the container, not thinking that he can easily breathe it into your face or that human flesh is not a very reliable container for gas.
sorry
Damn, beat me to it.
Indeed. They are pretty much a last resort thing. “We can’t poke him with the needle to get the stuff in anywhere else, we gotta stab him in the heart. Someone pick up that intern, she fainted.”
@LuminoZero
“Twilight was the prom queen.”
If the needle is narrow enough, haemorrhage risks are limited.
Intracardiac injections are never given like in Pulp Fiction or The Rock though.
I know, whenever I read about that I instinctively curl my arms around my chest…
For what it’s worth, the antidote for VX in real life ISN’T injected that way.