The messages, casually exchanged last weekend in a crowded, public space, show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne, an infantry division that has been parachuted into combat zones in both world wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan. If the administration were to send in the Army division, it would almost certainly be challenged in court under federal laws limiting how the military can be used domestically.
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There is also an editor’s note — apparently deputy Homeland Security adviser Salisbury decided to use Signal to exchange information about this while attending a funeral in Minnesota.
I guess the stability of the device and its ability to detonate electronically rather than with a firing pin, etc. which would be easy enough to wire into the flight computer.
Now that handles detonation but getting a light weight package that’s also large enough to deliver might be a challenge. However, I guess it depends on the destination. Size isn’t always important.