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- In 1967, a deadly virus, Motaba, ravages a war-torn African village. The U.S. Army sends in colonels Donnie McClintock (Sutherland) and Billy Ford (Freeman) to appraise the situation, and they promise to send for help. But what's really sent is a fuel-air-bomb which vaporizes the village and everyone in it.
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It's the Only Way to Be Sure: A fuel-air bomb is used to sterilize an infected camp in Africa, and another is nearly used to sterilize an American town. They do in fact have the cure for the original Motaba strain, but jump to sterilization because it would make a very effective biological weapon.
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A quarantine is set up to stop the virus from spreading, while Ford's boss, the sinister Major-Gen. McClintock, has his own agenda in mind - to harness this lethal bug for use as a bioweapon. With the President about to order a fuel-air bomb to be dropped on the little town to stop the outbreak, Daniels must find a way to unravel McClintock's ...
The Fairchild C-123 Provider aircraft shown dropping the 'bomb' in the film was withdrawn as obsolete from the U.S. Air Force inventory at least 10 years before the period in which "Outbreak" is set. The scene in question however is set in 1967, about 13 years before the decommission of the C-123s.
In the 1995 film Outbreak, a thermobaric weapon (referred to as a fuel air bomb) is used to destroy an African village to keep the perfect biological weapon (a virus) a secret, and later nearly used to wipe out a US town to keep the original virus intact.
Now, as I understand it, you want to firebomb the town of Cedar Creek, California, population 2,600, with something called a fuel air bomb, the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in our arsenal. The way it works: it explodes, sucks in all available oxygen to the core, vaporizes everything within a mile of ground zero, men, women, children, and ...
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