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fuel-air explosive

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Noun1.fuel-air explosive - a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below
FAE
explosive device - device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy
aerosol bomb, fuel-air bomb, thermobaric bomb, vacuum bomb, volume-detonation bomb - a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive; "a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb"
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Fuel-air explosive devices were first used operationally in Vietnam in 1969.
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He once observed that "there are no mechanical panaceas" when commenting on a Newsweek report in July 1961 about a fuel-air explosive to destroy bunkers.
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Recently a fuel-air explosive (FAE) warhead was added to the Smerch's inventory.
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