Biological warfare.How?Just spread diseases? How? Whats the tech like now and what could we achieve in theory?
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>Just spread diseases? How? Whats the tech like now and what could we achieve in theory?ask Fauci
>>64893465>Just spread diseases? How?We send your mom to sleep with the enemy
>how?Gorilla warfare with chimpanzee tactics, AKA throwing shit at people from trees
>>64893466But i dont want to ask something made by the jews. I wanna ask you. You seem smart and honest.
>>64893465>How?Fling corpses over the walls of the city you're currently besieging. Beyond that it's largely sci-fi, even in RE the zombies were an accident and Umbrella's successful products were Tyrants and Hunters.
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>>64893465Most bioweapons are engineered with some kind of purpose in mind. Sometimes that purpose is sheer destruction of human life, since high-grade bioweapons are far better at this than nuclear or chemical weapons. But as the Cold War went on, and presumably since then as well, bioweapons increasingly focused on other strategic uses.Take anthrax, for example. Bacillus anthracis, unlike most other potent pathogens, is not an obligate parasite - meaning it can survive perfectly fine in the soil, and just kills things for shits and giggles. So, now, imagine an airburst artillery shell packed full of the stuff. You have just salted the earth with an area denial weapon that is much harder to deal with than chemical or nuclear area denial weapons. There is no equivalent of a Geiger counter or chemical detector that can warn you of an area's contamination. There is no length of time that will pass until the area is any safer to navigate through. Even if you do navigate through safely, in full protective gear, you now have to decontaminate every single surface of every single man and vehicle that passed through, lest you track the spores into new areas and expand the area of effect. Unlike chemical or nuclear weapons, when you are dealing with a bioweapon, a single tiny mistake can cause a mostly-subdued problem to flare up into a raging inferno once more. Bioweapons reproduce. A single truck going through a small unknown anthrax zone can track it across the entire frontline. A single person infected with a synthetic influenza virus can spread it to an entire brigade.And that brings me to another point - bioweapons need not be lethal to be potent. I personally believe that's what the Chinese were going for with COVID - to make a nonlethal, highly transmissible, febrile bioweapon. Imagine infecting an entire division with the flu, all at once. How combat-capable is that division?cont.
>>64893935Another major focus of bioweapons research is into plant pathogens. These are potentially far more destructive than any human pathogen, because they can annihilate a country's food supply very quickly. The USA is somewhat more resistant to this compared to other countries due to our large domestic utilization and development of GMO crops - our crops are already disease resistant to some degree, and can be adaptively engineered to any identified bioweapon, in relatively short order.Now, if you're asking about how bioweapons are actually deployed, that depends. Anthrax is deployed in any mechanism a chemical weapon might be deployed, usually via bombs or artillery shells or just dumped out of the back of an airplane. Other bioweapons can also be deployed in this way, which is mostly lethal when trying to limit the effect to a particular area or installation (airburst missile/shell packed with smallpox, for instance). But you can get very creative with this, and the limits are set by your intelligence apparatus. A single agent can pour a single vial of concentrated virions into an enemy city's water supply, and cause a massive epidemic. Other intelligence operatives might intercept food or medical supplies and contaminate them - which also forces your enemy to disrupt their entire logistics supply chain to make sure they've rooted out the problem. Going back to plant pathogens, you could infect seed supplies with fungal spores. One secret agent with a spray bottle in the right facility can wipe out an entire region's food supply. And even if he's caught in the act, the damage is already done.
>>64893465Since threads full of retards>selectively breed desired pathogen>could be something designed for mass casualties with a high fatality rate and few or non scalable treatment methods(ex partially or largely anti biotic resistant plague) to something designed to give everyone a really bad flu for a few weeks degrading capability(ex equine encephalitis) or an attack on livestock, crops, or general economic output( ex blights, COVID)>initial delivery methods tend to be fairly harsh on pathogens, theres a whole process for applying some of them to a media thats readily spreadable and will help protect the pathogen from environmental dangers until its on target>spread it, usually via aircraft over the desired area>hope it doesn't blowback on you or alliesIts honestly a bit of a crapshoot, theres lots of interesting reading to be done on the stuff they used to get up to at fort detrick.
>>64894019>selectively breedWe're long past the point where direct genetic engineering is preferred.>partially or largely anti biotic resistant plagueAll bacterial bioweapons worth their salt are resistant to all commonly used antibiotics. Antivirals generally aren't strong enough to handle bioweapon-grade viruses, although filoviruses supposedly have some susceptibility.>initial delivery methods tend to be fairly harsh on pathogensAgain, depends a bit. Part of the reason anthrax is so big in bioweapons planning is because it's piss-easy to distribute. Its spores are pretty resilient, so you can just pack the shit into tubs or even artillery shells and dump it wherever. This also applies to most fungal pathogens, and to some lower-tier Gram-positive bacterial bioweapon candidates. Delivery is more of a problem with Gram-negatives (most bacterial bioweapons are Gram-neg) and with viruses. But with human to human transmission, you don't need very high delivery efficacy to get the ball rolling.>hope it doesn't blowback on you or allies There are ways to mitigate this. You can vaccinate your soldiers against transmissible bioweapons you are preparing to deploy. Going back to what I said about crop pathogens in my previous post, the US is well-positioned to utilize these offensively, since we can covertly engineer our domestic GMO crops to already be resistant to any plant pathogen we plan to deploy. Other countries have less control over this, though Western Europe would probably also be fine.
>>64894074I was speaking more historically than contemporarily although I should have been clearer on that, there's very little concrete evidence on current preferred methods(not that they can't be deduced) because AFAIK no competent actors will even admit to having an active bioweapons research program. They're all "bioweapons defense" programs and the stuff people can get up nowadays if so inclined is frankly horrific. I'm not aware of any good info on just how far things can be taken on the GE side of things, although superbugs and chimeric pathogens were claimed to be a thing already back in the 90s by russian defectors.>There are ways to mitigate this. You can vaccinate your soldiers against transmissible bioweapons you are preparing to deploy.definitely mitigation and not definitive, which is why you're hoping it doesn't blow back on you. Depending on the bug in question it may very well mutate to a point that the vaccine is partially or entirely ineffective. Of course you'd have a hell of a leg up on staying ahead of it compared to everyone else.
>>64893935>I personally believe that's what the Chinese were going for with COVIDDid they also go for making it somehow entirely undetectable that the virus had been modified in any way by artificial means? (Which would mean they're decades ahead of anybody else in the world in that field, mind you.) You know, just asking becuase literally nobody has found any of the normal signs of that having happened with it.
>>64894152Fun fact, mutation rate is one of the things you can selectively engineer to suit your needs. But yes the risk is (almost) always there>just how far things can be taken on the GE side of thingsIt got a whole lot worse thanks to AI actually. Not LLMs, I'm talking custom neural network setups for developing novel proteins. It's a whole new world of FUN!
>>64894177I mean they couldn't come up with anything remotely approaching an evolutionary link for something like 4 months after the genome was first sequenced and publicly posted. In early 2020, covid-19 was a coronavirus with zero known zoonotic connections. That, plus the initial outbreak's proximity to China's top virology research lab, is enough for me, personally.
>>64893977This is a warcrime
>>64896636Well yeah bioweapons are just about the most war crimey thing on earth
>>64896636Not an argument.
>>64894019>hope it doesn't blowback on you or alliesMake flu shots mandatory. Then mix in a vaccine against your engineered virus.
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