fuel-air

• “In fact the only possible competitor to high explosives would be fuel-air explosives, but getting a high quality thermobaric device to work is more complex.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Biological Weapons Amnesia

• “I think you meant “fuel-air weapon” (some of which are also thermobaric; it is also possible also to have a thermobaric weapon that is not a fuel-air weapon, as the distinguishing feature of thermobaric weapons is the blast profile and not so much the explosive involved).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Car Bomb Found in Times Square?

• “General Motors Today, automakers face steep fuel-economy requirements that can be satisfied only with smaller, more efficient powertrains, resorting to all kinds of fuel-air trickery: supercharging, turbocharging, and gas-electric hybridization.”

  The Wall Street Journal: This Buick Revs but Doesn't Roar

• “Massive ordnance penetrators; lesser but precision-guided penetrators "drilling" one after another; fuel-air detonations with almost the force of nuclear weapons; high-power microwave attack; the destruction of laboratories, unhardened targets, and the Iranian electrical grid; and other means, can be combined to great effect.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Mortal Threat From Iran

• “The bomb, which was designed to act as a fuel-air explosive, luckily was a dud and Shahzad was arrested two days later as he tried to leave JFK Airport for Dubai.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “The greater the space, the greater the amount of fuel-air mix, which allows for more power.”

  Forbes: Glossary: Automotive Terminology

• “Engine Liter Size (or engine displacement): The space available inside the engine's cylinders for the fuel-air mix.”

  Forbes: Glossary: Automotive Terminology

• “I think you meant “fuel-air weapon” some of which are also thermobaric; it is also possible also to have a thermobaric weapon that is not a fuel-air weapon, as the distinguishing feature of thermobaric weapons is the blast profile and not so much the explosive involved.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Car Bomb Found in Times Square?

• “Russia sells several different types of warheads, including cluster munitions, thermobaric (fuel-air explosive) and electro-magnetic pulse (anti-radar, and destructive to electronics in general.)”

  kaliningrad missiles can take out abm’s

• “Instead, this vacuum bomb gets its power from a fuel-air mixture, which unleashes a destructive shockwave.”

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