SO CALLED "SMOKE SHELLS" ARE A CHEMICAL WEAPON, THE "SMOKE" IS WHITE PHOSPHORUS

Can this be confirmed?

THEY ARE CALLED CONTRAILS

omggggg

OP right about Willy Pete.....

You sound like a jarhead...
That's what we called it in the Corps
Willie Peter

There really is nothing to confirm, it is common knowledge, but here are some links.


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Q&A: White phosphorus


The Pentagon's confirmation that it used white phosphorus as a weapon during last year's offensive in the Iraqi city of Falluja has sparked criticism.

The BBC News website looks at the facts behind the row.

What is white phosphorus?

White phosphorus is a solid, waxy man-made chemical which ignites spontaneously at about 30C and produces an intense heat, bright light and thick pillars of smoke.

The US military says it used white phosphorus to flush out insurgents

It continues to burn until deprived of oxygen and, if extinguished with water, can later reignite if the particles dry out and are exposed again to the air.

Also known by the military as WP or Willie Pete, white phosphorus is used in munitions, to mark enemy targets and to produce smoke for concealing troop movements.

It can also be used as an incendiary device to firebomb enemy positions.

What are its effects?

If particles of ignited white phosphorus land on a person's skin, they can continue to burn right through flesh to the bone. Toxic phosphoric acid can also be released into wounds, risking phosphorus poisoning.

Skin burns must be immersed in water or covered with wet cloths to prevent re-combustion until the particles can be removed.

Exposure to white phosphorus smoke in the air can also cause liver, kidney, heart, lung or bone damage and even death.

A former US soldier who served in Iraq says breathing in smoke close to a shell caused the throat and lungs to blister until the victim suffocated, with the phosphorus continuing to burn them from the inside.

Long-term exposure to lesser concentrations over several months or years may lead to a condition called "phossy jaw", where mouth wounds are caused that fail to heal and the jawbone eventually breaks down.

How did the US use it?

The US initially denied reports it had used white phosphorus as a weapon in Falluja in November 2004, saying it had been used only for illumination and laying smokescreens.


WHITE PHOSPHORUS


Spontaneously flammable chemical used for battlefield illumination
Contact with particles causes burning of skin and flesh
Use of incendiary weapons prohibited for attacking civilians (Protocol III of Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons)
Protocol III not signed by US

However, the Pentagon has now confirmed the substance was used as an "incendiary weapon" during the assault.

It was deployed as a conventional - rather than chemical - munition, the military said, and its principal use was as a smokescreen and to mark enemy targets.

However, the US has now admitted its forces also used white phosphorus rounds to a lesser extent to flush enemy forces out of covered positions, allowing them to be targeted with high explosives.

The US military denies using the chemical against civilians and stresses its deployment is not illegal.


[link to news.bbc.co.uk]


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Smoke

The smoke shell is designed to create a smokescreen. The main types are bursting (usually filled with white phosphorus, WP) and base ejection (a shell which scatters smoke grenades

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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smoke shell

In World War I, artillery projectile carrying a charge of some chemical capable of producing smoke so as to form a smoke screen. Such shells almost invariably used white phosphorus since this ignited spontaneously when released and thus did not require a complicated time fuse.

[link to encyclopedia.farlex.com]

We carried WP in case our radio mounted jeep became disabled
We were to set off the WP on top off the mrc 109/110
It would melt thru the housing and to the internal components, leaving the radio unusable by the enemy.
We were suppose to set it off on the manifold also..

hamas israel now?

bastards

You're thinking of thermite grenades...issued to to destroy sensitive materials and denying enemy use of them....great for wrecking breech mechanisms....

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and this is what they are going to use, prob using by now, to clear the path into gaza. it's horrific, fkg horror-ridden. this stuff is going to get all over the place, on all those people, all those children. you all are not going to want to see a vid of the after effects of this mess. and you would not want to hear the screams of agony. fucking-a...

about 30C and produces an intense heat, bright light and thick pillars of smoke.

yes..here's how i see it, God is going to come and destroy those who are turning loose the pillars of smoke on the people.

Joe 2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.


Joe 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

tomorrow night...

The smoke grenades have always been the white phosphorus

there are stories in Nam where the guy threw the smoke grenade but was to close when it went off on got that shit in him. Guys in the field had to cut that shit outta them quick. Supposedly one of the worst things the men have seen. That shit burns forever. Think they have to submerse you in water to keep the burning down and pick them out.

I call bullshit- there is no proof that this is what is being used today in Gaza.

whoa whoa whoa

about time someone called BS, i have owned and used both, there is a trip flare that is WP, and produces very little smoke, but burns through anything, and there are WP grenades, for lack of a better term, and then there are smoke grenades, entirely different

they produce little sustained heat and do give off a noxious gas, but they are not white phosphorous

[link to www.fas.org]

why do persians still stone little children to death after they rape them? is it true they stone gays also?its like these people are 1000 years behind the rest of the world.why do muslims cut themselves with knives on that "holy day" of theirs?are they demon possessed by mohommed?and why does their koran teach to kill jews an christians?and do they want to kill obama since he "says" he left islam for jesus?

No need for flame throwers anymore...

White Phosphorus (WP)

White Phosphorus (WP), known as Willy Pete, is used for signaling, screening, and incendiary purposes. White Phosphorus can be used to destroy the enemy's equipment or to limit his vision. It is used against vehicles, petroleum, oils and lubricants (POL) and ammunition storage areas, and enemy observers. WP can be used as an aid in target location and navigation. It is usually dispersed by explosive munitions. It can be fired with fuze time to obtain an airburst.
The Battle of Fallujah was conducted from 8 to 20 November 2004 with the last fire mission on 17 November. The battle was fought by an Army, Marine and Iraqi force of about 15,000 under the I Marine Expeditionary Force (IMEF). US forces found WP to be useful in the Battle of Fallujah. "WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE. We fired “shake and bake” missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out. ... We used improved WP for screening missions when HC smoke would have been more effective and saved our WP for lethal missions."

White phosphorus is not banned by any treaty to which the United States is a signatory.

WP is a colorless to yellow translucent wax-like substance with a pungent, garlic-like smell. The form used by the military is highly energetic (active) and ignites once it is exposed to oxygen. White phosphorus is a pyrophoric material, that is, it is spontaneously flammable).

When exposed to air, it spontaneously ignites and is oxidized rapidly to phosphorus pentoxide. Such heat is produced by this reaction that the element bursts into a yellow flame and produces a dense white smoke. Phosphorus also becomes luminous in the dark, and this property is conveyed to "tracer bullets." This chemical reaction continues until either all the material is consumed or the element is deprived of oxygen. Up to 15 percent of the WP remains within the charred wedge and can reignite if the felt is crushed and the unburned WP is exposed to the atmosphere.

White phosphorus results in painful chemical burn injuries. The resultant burn typically appears as a necrotic area with a yellowish color and characteristic garliclike odor. White phosphorus is highly lipid soluble and as such, is believed to have rapid dermal penetration once particles are embedded under the skin.

Incandescent particles of WP may produce extensive burns. Phosphorus burns on the skin are deep and painful; a firm eschar is produced and is surrounded by vesiculation. The burns usually are multiple, deep, and variable in size. The solid in the eye produces severe injury. The particles continue to burn unless deprived of atmospheric oxygen. Contact with these particles can cause local burns. These weapons are particularly nasty because white phosphorus continues to burn until it disappears. If service members are hit by pieces of white phosphorus, it could burn right down to the bone. Burns usually are limited to areas of exposed skin (upper extremities, face). Burns frequently are second and third degree because of the rapid ignition and highly lipophilic properties of white phosphorus.

If burning particles of WP strike and stick to the clothing, take off the contaminated clothing quickly before the WP burns through to the skin. Remove quickly all clothing affected by phosphorus to prevent phosphorus burning through to skin. If this is impossible, plunge skin or clothing affected by phosphorus in cold water or moisten strongly to extinguish or prevent fire. Then immediately remove affected clothing and rinse affected skin areas with cold sodium bicarbonate solution or with cold water. Moisten skin and remove visible phosphorus (preferably under water) with squared object (knife-back etc.) or tweezers. Do not touch phosphorus with fingers! Throw removed phosphorus or clothing affected by phosphorus into water or allow to bum in suitable location. Cover phosphorus burns with moist dressing and keep moist to prevent renewed inflammation. It is neccessary to dress white phosphorus-injured patients with saline-soaked dressings to prevent reignition of the phosphorus by contact with the air.

OP
If a person's exposed skin is burned by this, could you treat them by spraying the skin with CO2 as from a fire extinguisher? I was thinking of ways to deprive the substance of oxygen.

I rememcer a show on MASH long ago when they brought a guy in with the WP in him and the docs were all mad at what kind of new KILLING and maming munitions they were using,

They put the guy in a big tub of WATER where I would think The WP was kept from burning further and they removed it...

Im not the OP, but I do not consider necrosis by freezing better than necrosis by burning.

just make sure you understand that the OP is saying that smoke grenades cause the same affect as white phosphorous, they do not.
if you are burned with white phosphorous, there is absolutely nothing you can do, but treat afterwards, it is amazingly fast, you would have less than a second to do anything, after that you are treating the wound.

WP is a horrible weapon, but it is NOT the same as a white smoke grenade

bottom line: you get sprayed with wp, you're fucked.

This reminds me of something.

I was reading the triage recommendations for major crisis and no burn victims were to be treated.

There was a thread about this topic on glp



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