What does FAE stand for?

Fuel-Air Explosive

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Fuel-air explosive devices were first used operationally in Vietnam in 1969.

Heavy-handed accuracy: the accurate delivery of aerial bombs has ...

They contain 15,000lb of fuel-air explosives, a variation on the deadly napalm which the US deployed with huge destructive effect - and to massive public outrage - in Vietnam.

Daisy Cutters signal switch to crude tactics

He once observed that "there are no mechanical panaceas" when commenting on a Newsweek report in July 1961 about a fuel-air explosive to destroy bunkers.

Why strategy is difficult

The Pentagon is sending an updated fuel-air explosive for use against bin Laden's tunnels.

America admits it blitzed 70 allies

Instead of building a fuel-air explosive bomb, next time terrorist doctors may attack with an anthrax weapon.

Islamic Terrorists Reach Significant Threshold in London Doctor's ...

In other words, if a thermobaric weapon can be considered a part of the fuel-air explosive family, the contrary is not necessarily true.

Warheads at a turning point

The Pentagon revealed in January that it was rushing 10 thermobaric bombs - or fuel-air explosives - to Afghanistan after successful tests in the Nevada desert.

[0] Heat bombs blitz hideouts

He would instead have bombers drop fuel-air explosives on them.

Caves make perfect hide-outs