Talk:Mark 77 bomb

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Factually inaccurate.
First: "Use of incendiary bombs against civilian populations was banned in the 1980" is not strictly correct. The exact quote from the CCW is:

"It is further prohibited to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of incendiary weapons other than air-delivered incendiary weapons, except when such military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken with a view to limiting the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoiding, and in any event to minimizing, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects."

Second:

The CCW consists of 4 separate protocols (or rather three plus an addendum). Any nation which signs two or more of those protocols is considered a signatory. The US has signed the agreement, just not Article III on incendiary weapons.

=== Well, your statement was not 100% correct either. Here you go:

According to the Protocol III of the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons governing the use of incendiary weapons: - prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against civilians (effectively a reaffirmation of the general - prohibition on attacks against civilians in Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions) - prohibits the use of air-delivered incendiary weapons against military targets located within concentrations of civilians and loosely regulates the use of other types of incendiary weapons in such circumstances

Nachtrabe 10:53, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

I removed the incorrect fact that white phosphorus is added to the bombs and that it was an oxidizing agent, but the references don't seem to support the fact that any oxidizers were used. Can anyone prove/disprove this fact?

Anonymous

The references apear to be one sided in their views, and the references used are mostly factualy inacurate. If we are using biased references, they need to be replaced. If we are using factualy inacurate references they need to be replaced. Who would ask to prove/disprove any topic using baited references? One must use all knowledge availible to gather references and facts, not trapping course of underated news castings and magazine articles comming from anti war administrations. Ask a proffessional technition as to what is placed into the bombs, not a journalist.

Gatwood

Add photo of explosion?
While looking for any official reference to this weapon (to deal with the really weak references currently used), I found a photo that can be used.

http://www.marines.mil/Photos.aspx?igphoto=279659

Hcobb (talk) 13:40, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

According to me there are a number of inaccurate statements. In 1964 and 1965 I was a young Aviation Ordnanceman in the A-1H/J Skyraider squadron in USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14). We used the MK 77 Mod 0 NAPALM bomb in Vietnam. The mixture was 95% Aviation Gasoline (115/145 Octane) and 5% Aluminum Stearate by weight. The fuze system was the Mk 13 Mod 0 igniter, which if my memory serves, was in fact a white phosphorous igniter. Air_Gunner 71Air Gunner71 (talk) 20:45, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

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