Flying Squid@lemmy.world to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agoMichelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWIIlemmy.worldimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1348arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1344arrow-down1imageMichelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWIIlemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
Edit: Someone sent this to me, but I found a source discussing it. https://greg.org/archive/2018/02/22/brickelangelo.html
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down4·4 months agoUh So they turned it into an inverse frag grenade?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·4 months agoThe statue still exists, so I guess it worked out.
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·4 months agoWould you care to read the article? They weren’t thin walled capsules, they were cairns. It made it so the statues were a solid block of material. There would be no or little fragmentation or spalling effect towards the statue.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoTo be fair, I believe they posted that before my edit.
Uh
So they turned it into an inverse frag grenade?
The statue still exists, so I guess it worked out.
Would you care to read the article? They weren’t thin walled capsules, they were cairns. It made it so the statues were a solid block of material. There would be no or little fragmentation or spalling effect towards the statue.
To be fair, I believe they posted that before my edit.