Read main thread: Fuel Air Bomb in WW2?
January 16th, 2006  
redcoat
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Originally Posted by Mohmar Deathstrike
Some fuel air bombs are as destructive as small nukes. To me, their techology appears to be far simpler than that required to develop nuclear weapons.
Fuel-air explosives were first developed, and used in Vietnam by the United States

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Is the reason they weren't used in WW2 that nobody had planes big enough to carry one?
The British WW2 bomber the Avro Lancaster could carry a 22,000lb bomb called a 'Grand Slam'.
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Last edited by redcoat; January 16th, 2006 at 23:08.
 
 
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