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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Fuel-Air Explosives
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.002707.7471@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 00:27:07 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


In article <1991Jan16.013121.9797@cbnews.att.com> MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Michael Edelman) writes:

>There's been a fair bit of discussion lately regarding FAE weapons, and
>on last night's news I saw films of these weapons in action.

>It looks like the bombs are first detonated radially to mix the fuel;
>the resultant cloud of gas is more-or-less toroidal in shape. About a
>second later the cloud is detonated, resulting in a fireball and a large
>shockwave.


	I saw the same film.  I was impressed with the tremendous power 
	of these weapons, but I don't understand how the fuel can be
	dispersed by the preliminary explosion without being detonated.
	What kind of mechanism prevents premature detonation?


Geoff


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