• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    All I read is the truck bed was filled with flammables. ’ Is there a believable source for

    A. Whether the driver started the fire or it was sparked on accident.

    B. If it was not intentional, what was the actual target?

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      3 days ago

      Some surprisingly low end explosives for a decorated green beret guy with his level of access. Fireworks and petrol cans?

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      3 days ago

      With military experience he’d know a little about fuel air explosives. Powerful fireworks are sufficient for making such a bomb, though they’re technically difficult (you need to trigger the second trigger explosion after the first has spread out the fuel enough to detonate)

      I think he was expecting (in Marvin the Martian’s words) an earth shattering kaboom but didn’t do it right

      Done right the amount of fuel would have done serious damage - all the energy released in the fire would have been released instantaneously, with a shock wave