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From: JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Larry W. Jewell)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Fighting Saddam's fires
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Date: 28 Jan 91 04:05:37 GMT
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From:     "Larry W. Jewell" <JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
    Remember the "Summer of Fires"?  The planes were dropping potassium
bicarbonate (Purple K in the Navy) on the fires.  I wonder if we have any
of this gear ready to lay a path through the patches of flaming oil Saddam
will likely lay in the line of advance of our troops.  Anyone know if the
Herky birds or something similar could be adapted to this purpose?

     Just for those who aren't familiar with Purple K, it doesn't work in
a conventional manner, that is it doesn't remove one leg of the fire
triangle (spark, fuel, air) but instead it "interrupts the chemical
reaction of fire" which has always been really clear to me(:-().

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  Larry W. Jewell                              JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU