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Wildfires Beware: Boeing Patents Giant Bullet To Shoot Down Blazes
Boeing has come up with a new idea for fighting forest fires: shoot at them.
quate.”
But the Boeing shell is designed to either deto- nate in front of a wildfire, spreading retardant materials on the ground to prevent the fire from progressing, or to deto- nate directly above it, dampening the flames.
“One, Boeing didn’t esti- mate the cost of these artillery shells,” he said. “If you’re shooting tens of thousands of them, the costs would be pro- hibitive.”
nuclear plant fires and emergencies with hazardous materials. “If a howitzer shell fired from miles away is the only way to deal with a nuclear meltdown, then that might be a feasible use for this idea.”
The patent stipu- lates that the out- side surface of the shell would be made of “an envi- ronmentally safe material”, and that the projectile could be fired
either in a “a concentra- tion barrage, a creeping barrage, rolling barrage, or a block barrage”.
In a statement, Boeing said the company stud- ies “many advanced con- cepts and evaluates many future designs in order to stay competitive in the marketplace”.
“The awarding of a patent does not neces- sarily mean that Boeing will be developing that concept or design in the near future.”
The western United States, reeling from the effects of a historic drought, is experiencing an unprecedented sea- son for wildfires, with nearly double the five- year average of acreage affected in California, according to CalFire. In August, 80,000 people had to be evacuated near Los Angeles when the Blue Cut fire threat- ened their homes.
The aerospace company was awarded a patent this summer for what theapplication described as an “artillery shell com- prising: an external sur- face; a cavity disposed within the external sur- face; a fire-retarding manufactures a wide releasing fire retardant
Boeing designs and
The main issue, he said, was that Boeing’s patent appeared to be based on a flawed premise – that
material disposed within the cavity; and a trigger configured to release the fire-retarding material.”
Basically, a giant fire- fighting bullet the size of a small dog, fired from a howitzer heavy artillery field gun.
“To retard forest fires, fire-retarding material is typically dropped into or in front of the advancing fire from aircraft such as helicopters or airplanes,” the application states. “Such aircraft deliver fire- retarding material at a low rate which often makes them inade-
range of rockets, satel- lites, and defense and security technology, as well as aircraft.
In 2010, a Russian com- pany designed a fire- fighting bomb, to be dropped from an aircraft, which would disperse liq- uid over 1,000 sq meters when detonated, accord- ing to Wildfire Today.
Bill Gabbert, the editor- in-chief of Wildfire Today and a veteran wildfire fighter based in southern California, said there were “a number of rea- sons” why Boeing’s idea was not practicable.
directly on to a fire would put it out. “But retardant applied from the air does not put out fires,” he said. “In the best of cir- cumstances, it can slow them down so that fire- fighters on the ground can get close and put them out.”
“Just that last fact invali- dates the whole concept in my mind,” he added.
In an article in Wildfire Today, Gabbert called the firefighting shell a “lame-ass idea”, though he allowed that there could be a worthwhile application in the case of
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