• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    using this type of weapon on infantry is normally considered a war crime

    I’m going to need a source on that. Hitting infantry with a missile is…pretty fucking common.

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      Section 6.2 of the 1999 UN Secretary-General’s Bulletin states: “The use of certain conventional weapons, such as … incendiary weapons is prohibited.”

      Antitank guns are legal, incendiary weapons such as the above are not. Napalm was made illegal against infantry through this but also antitank industry weapons.

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        That’s not an incendiary weapon. Incendiary weapons are like napalm, thermite, willy p. This is just a regular high explosive round. Probably something with a shaped charge like a HEAT (high explosive anti tank) warhead.