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Message no. 1
From: The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU>
Subject: WP(was:Re: flecchettes and revolvers)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 01:14:20 -0500
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Oliver McDonald wrote:

> Keep in mind that WP is banned by the Geneva convention.

it is? Then why does just about every army in the world use it in there
artililery as a "spoting" round? Doh i probaly just answered my own
question. Its out lawed for anti personel use but not as a smoke
screen/spotting round right? Speaking of WP you want scarry think of the
WP round the 16" Battleship guns used to fire *shiver* 1,000 punds of WP.
No thanks!!

Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
tmprice@***********.com
Message no. 2
From: Oliver McDonald <oliver@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: WP(was:Re: flecchettes and revolvers)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:57:02 +0800
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997 01:14:20 -0500, The Bookworm wrote:

>> Keep in mind that WP is banned by the Geneva convention.
>
>it is? Then why does just about every army in the world use it in there
>artililery as a "spoting" round? Doh i probaly just answered my own
>question. Its out lawed for anti personel use but not as a smoke
>screen/spotting round right? Speaking of WP you want scarry think of the
>WP round the 16" Battleship guns used to fire *shiver* 1,000 punds of WP.
>No thanks!!

Correct. The reason that it is outlawed is best typified by looking at the kind of wounds
it give. My father
was stationed in Beruit for a couple of years with the UN, and has a couple of 'year
books'. WP has a
nasty effect that when it hits your skin, it burns, and keeps burning untill it is all
used up. It is sticky, so it
burns into your body, right to the bone... Very ugly stuff.

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Message no. 3
From: Bredget Stroud <bstroud@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: WP(was:Re: flecchettes and revolvers)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 14:15:53 -0700
Oliver wrote:
>WP has a
>nasty effect that when it hits your skin, it burns, and keeps burning
until it is all used up. It is sticky, so it
>burns into your body, right to the bone... Very ugly stuff.

It also burns under water and can't be smothered out. A friend of mine
got hit by a WP grenade in Viet Nam. Needless to say he has had A LOT of
plastic surgery.
Bredget Stroud
MSMail Support Engineer
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