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Subject: Fuel Air Munitions Questions
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Date: 2 Sep 90 06:08:30 GMT
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From: sun!sunburn.West.Sun.COM!gtx!qip!john (John Moore)
Can someone describe the characteristics of fuel air munitions.

What is the relative yield of a 1000 pound FAM vs 1000 # traditional explosive?

Do FAM's ever deploy a "shaped charge." A line of FAM in the right
shape should give a blast that diminishes as 1/R rather than 1/R**2 for
a spherical blast. A 3 dimensional shape should be able to generate
a planar blast front where diffraction and absorbtion are the
only ways in which the blast energy decreases with distance.
Presumably the peak overpressure would deteriorate with distance
due to pulse dispersion.

Am I all wet, or do people do things like this? Any desert tests
planned in the near future ;-) ?
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