Mine Breaching System Based on Fuel-Air Explosive

Fuel-air bomb and thermobaric bomb - what's the difference ?
I know that the thermobaric bomb create a pressure (low or high?), but mechanism remained a puzzle to me (
 
LeEnfield said:
The British used a system called the Viper and that would fire out a long roll of explosive and then detonate it, this in turn would set of all the mines around it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Viper
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What we call a Miclic.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m58-miclic.htm

Avksentii said:
Fuel-air bomb and thermobaric bomb - what's the difference ?
I know that the thermobaric bomb create a pressure (low or high?), but mechanism remained a puzzle to me (
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Thermobaric uses the air around it to create the explosion.

A FAE has to have a combustible on board.

Thermobaric weapons are best used in small, tightly confined spaces. The better built and stronger the structure or facility, the better the weapon works, consuming all the oxygen and creating an explosive pressure. If you use a Thermobaric in the open, you tend to lose pressure and force as it dispates over open space.

FAE is a better open area weapon, using it's combustable fuel, rather than air.

From what the site says, the device is a FAE and uses the weapons over pressure to detonate mines.
 
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