This beast isn't a Fuel Air Explosive aka the BLU-96 FAE. The Daisy Cutter was used in 'Nam to clear jungle. Fearsome weapon...smashes the hell out of anything within a wide radius.
This is the FAE...also a wicked bomb...and also very useful against certain targets like minefields, soft buildings, ships, shallow bunkers, and of course, infantry. This site shows the bomb sequence of detonation. The way it works is like this: When the bomb reaches the right altitude, the outer casing carrying the liquid fuel is blown apart, spreading the fuel in a giant dougnut shaped mist cloud. At the same time the cloud is aerosolizing to the explosive fuel-air mixture, the electric detonators are blown out laterally into the cloud. These electric probes are connected to the final fuzing circuit at the center of the bomb cloud. When cloud is fully dispersed and the detonators reach the outer limits of the cloud, the high voltage is applied to the probes, they spark a lightening-like arc and viola! BOOM! Even if it don't kill the enemy, it will give any survivors within a wide area such a shock as to render them inefective. I would love to see their reaction. Fry 'em up!
Here is the site. Takes a few minutes to load at 56K...it is a slide show.
[url]http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~bronkhor/clmf/faeseq.html[/url]
We're coming for you Osama!
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