To: JustAmy
Fuel Air Explosion. Often called a "daisy cutter." Propane bomb. Devastating blast.
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
FAE = Fuel laden 767 slamming into WTC/Pentagon.
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
The "daisy-cutter" designation comes from the fuse...not the bomb. It appears that since the cloud only went to 1000' that it was not a FAE (those go higher due to massive heat). Probably was a BLU-82/B...15,000 pounder. Those are the ones we dropped on Iraw that spooked them so bad and caused people to think we nuked them.
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Was this the Daisy-Cutter used in Viet Nam? I thought the bomb they used there fell by parachute and had a long probe that allowed for an airburst when the probe made contact with the ground. Please correct me if I am wrong.
118 posted on
10/30/2001 5:12:24 AM PST by
gaspar
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Fuel Air Explosion. Often called a "daisy cutter." Propane bomb. Devastating blast.I thought the daisy cutter was the 15,000 lb bombs we dropped in Vietnam once in a while, to create landing zones.
202 posted on
10/30/2001 11:25:54 PM PST by
Mark17
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