fighting forest fires is a dangerous business, anything that lowers the risk to man works for me.

.... For firefighters or air dropped retardant. Sounds expenesive, though.

It would be good training for the Army.

And it's a flexible technology that could deliver herbicides onto feral pot operations, heat onto moonshiners's stills or tear-gas onto protesting tree-huggers.

Send a C-130 gunship to the fire location. I don't know how cost-effective this is.

be useful as well.

There are a million vets skilled in artillery handling. Hell as an OS in the navy, I used to plot Naval Gunfire Support.

why not apply them in these large free burning uncontrolled fires exploding droplets of retardant. They have been using converted airliners, but in the old days they did use bombers.