[KSCITYBOY]

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

[Movemout]

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

They tend to rupture your diaphram (sp?)as you cower in your bunker or trench with devastating physical effects. Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Sheer terror! Too bad for the Talitubbies.

[Cobra64]

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

We used a number of these during the Gulf War on Hussein's Republican Guard. Yes, they do remove all oxygen, and those not blown up from the blast, explode from air leaving their lungs to fill the vacuum left by the FAE.

[RightWhale]

Don't these bombs also suck all the air out of the area

If the aerosol dispersal is correct, all the oxygen inside the fireball will be consumed. In a way this is opposite to ordinary high explosives which add significant air [mostly nitrogen compounds] to the air, suddenly, causing a local excess.