Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: johnson@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Don Johnson) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: FAE/BACKLU-82 Message-ID: <1991Mar13.001255.4809@cbnews.att.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 00:12:55 GMT References: <1991Mar6.040610.24007@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (william.b.thacker) Organization: AMSAA/GWD, APG, MD 21005 Lines: 26 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Don Johnson In article <1991Mar6.040610.24007@cbnews.att.com> pierson@cimnet.enet.dec.com (Desert Storm: Done Right, Done Now 04-Mar-1991 1958) writes: > > Is anybody in a postion to > answer authoritatively (CNN doesnt count) able to say if BLU-82 is > an FAE. (Arsenal of Democracy says it is, but it just doesn't have > the right "ingredients". Quoting from Jane's Defense Weekly (23 Feb 91). ...The BLU-82 - a concussion type bomb- was used during the Vietnam War to clear helicopter landing zones in the jungle. Dropped by an MC-130 Hercules, the 'Daisy Cutter' is a 6800kg (15,000 lb) bomb carrying a 5700 kg warhead of GSX, a gelled slurry blast explosive comprised of ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder and polystyrene soap. It is detonated just above ground level by a 96 cm nose probe to create a 70 kg/cm2 (1000 lb/in2) overpressure. Not an FAE.