War and weapons go hand in hand. With the advancement of military science and technology, the lethality of modern weapons has also risen, even to a sensational level. When it comes to weapons of mass destruction, many people naturally think of thermonuclear bombs. But in fact, some conventional weapons are more lethal because of their high frequency of use than nuclear weapons, which are rarely seen, and some of them are even banned by international conventions because they are too cruel.
The first, the Dam bomb
Also known as "flowering bullet" and "deformation bullet", it was first produced by the East India Company as an Imperial rifle bullet. After the Dam bullet enters the human body, the built-in lead core is pushed out of the shell due to inertia, is pressed into a flat shape, expands the trauma area, and under the action of the rotation force, causes a trumpet-like cavity to the human tissue, which is extremely lethal, either dead or disabled.
What is more painful is that the lead metal remaining in the body can also cause symptoms of poisoning, which makes it more difficult to treat. Due to the high lethality rate of dam shells and the enormous suffering they inflict on the wounded, it is an inhumane weapon.
Ammunition similar to the Dam bullet also has an empty tip bullet, the warhead is hollow design, after entering the human body will also expand, stir, causing huge lacerations.
Both types of ammunition are listed by the Hague Convention as weapons prohibited in international warfare.
The second, steel ball grenades
Ordinary grenades add slots to increase the number of fragments, but steel ball grenades are more direct: a dense layer of steel balls is wrapped around the surface of the grenade. At the moment of explosion, thousands of steel balls launched a 360° attack on the surrounding space without a dead angle, and the nearby ones were directly beaten into a sieve, comparable to Ling Chi's execution.
The third, white phosphorus bombs
The white phosphorus ignition point is only 40 ° C, and in most cases it can spontaneously ignite in the air. Because of this, it is difficult to extinguish once burned. The white phosphorus bomb is a special weapon that uses white phosphorus as a medicine. After the white phosphorus is attached to the human body, it will burn out all the time. It's a rather painful process: the person hit is burned through the skin first, followed by human tissue and bone. In the battles in which the white phosphorus bombs participated, the state of the dead and wounded was quite miserable. Nowadays, when people mention this weapon, they all talk about discoloration.
The fourth, thermobaric bomb
As the name suggests, a hot pressure bomb is a special bomb with high temperature and high pressure as the lethality. During the explosion, the thermobaric bomb does not produce debris, but spreads a large amount of explosive dust such as aluminum and magnesium particles, followed by violent combustion, the air is heated to 2000 ° C, and the oxygen is quickly exhausted, forming a negative pressure high temperature space. The air in the body of the victim was drained, as if he were in an incinerator, and his death was extremely tragic.
In the Middle East battlefield, in order to combat the Taliban elements hidden in underground bunkers and caves, the US military has used a large number of thermopressure bombs, and the results are amazing.