[Movemout]

Fuel-Air Explosives [FAE] disperse an aerosol cloud of fuel which is ignited by an embedded detonator to produce an explosion. The rapidly expanding wave front due to overpressure flattens all objects within close proximity of the epicenter of the aerosol fuel cloud, and produces debilitating damage well beyond the flattened area. The main destructive force of FAE is high overpressure, useful against soft targets such as minefields, armored vehicles, aircraft parked in the open, and bunkers.

[mdittmar]

If that's what it is we need to drop leaflets before telling the toweliban troops we've put pigs blood in it.

No virgins for them,they are tainted.

[KSCITYBOY]

Don't these bombs also suck all the air out of the area. Great weapon for killing a large gathering of troops.

[sausageseller]

What type of aircraft would deliver this type of "bomb"?

[mtngrl@vrwc]

The main destructive force of FAE is high overpressure, useful against soft targets such as minefields, armored vehicles, aircraft parked in the open, and bunkers.

I had never heard of a FAE before, but this news is likely to have me grinning like a fool all day!