Boeing has been awarded a patent for an idea, which could change the way we fight forest fires.
Boeing was awarded the US patent for a fire fighting bullet, which would be fired out of a gun towards a fire and releases a fire-retarding material, such as a foam, to help extinguish a fire. Several different iterations of the artillery shell, which could be fired from a Howitzer field gun, were described in the patent. One ’embodiment’ comprises an artillery…
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