Other terms used for this family of weapons are high-impulse thermobaric weapons (HITs), heat and pressure weapons, vacuum bombs, or fuel-air explosives (FAE or FAX).

That turned the automobile into a fuel-air bomb of impressive size.

The manufacturing wing was literally a giant fuel-air bomb waiting to go off.

Thermobaric weapons, also known as "fuel-air bombs", have been used by the government side during the Syrian civil war.

The fuel-air bomb is one of the most well-known types of thermobaric weapons.

The fuel-air bombs had ignited fabrics, paper, splintered furniture.

Fuel-air bombs, essentially misty clouds of gasoline, were dropped over minefields, detonating mines.

Fuel-air bombs sucked oxygen out of the atmosphere, suffocating any soldier dug in beneath its lightning flash.

(This dispersed-fuel explosion is the mechanism behind fuel-air bombs.)

The net effect was a fuel-air bomb, the next best thing to a nuclear weapon in Terran technology, and the basement warehouse became a gigantic diesel cylinder.

Though not strictly an incendiary bomb or chemical weapon, a fuel-air bomb is more powerful than regular high explosive munitions, making it a highly indiscriminate weapon.

Within hours of locating a huge Iraqi stockpile of fuel-air bombs at Jalibah airfield inside Iraq, Kern had them destroyed them.

In response, the Mujahideen prepared dug-in firing positions with top cover, and again, Soviet forces altered their tactics by using air-dropped fuel-air bombs on such landing zones.

In an effort to make way for armor and infantrymen, they used napalm, ground-clearing fuel-air bombs and cluster bombs, which the G.I.'s describe as "steel rain."

Bombing runs continued over Kuwait and Baghdad, and napalm and ground-clearing fuel-air bombs were dropped over Kuwait to open paths for armor and infantrymen.

The LAT off-lead focuses on a detail mentioned in the other papers' accounts: The Russian military has been dropping on southern Chechnya fuel-air bombs, which release a gas into the air that then ignites.

He notes that in the United States and Afghanistan, both American and Qaeda forces fought using satellite and cellular communications, remote command posts and "large fuel-air bombs to level high-profile targets and command centers."

While creating a stockpile of illegal explosives to blow up a federal fingerprint center, the Mountaineers worked in 1995 and 1996 to perfect a fuel-air bomb that could engulf "two football fields," according to the Militia Watchdog, a anti-terrorist study group.

The official also described development of the bomb as an effort by nuclear weapons designers to prove that they can still build devices more useful than conventional weapons, like fuel-air bombs, which spray a mist of fuel and then detonate it with tremendous force.

The next day the United States Air Force dropped pamphletshelpfully translated into Arabicon the Iraqi lines explaining that at 10 a.m. on a certain date they would drop a fuel-air bomb on an area which was held by a brigade of the Iraqi Republican Guard.

At the end of that long night the defenders had detonated a massive fuel-air bomb as cover for the hidden noncombatants and to remove any capability for the Posleen to use the bodies of the defenders as food, "thresh" as the Posleen called it.

The military has also used vacuum bombs before, experts monitoring the conflict say.

This effect has given rise to the misnomer "vacuum bomb".

He is considered the inventor of the aerosol or vacuum bomb.

A thermobaric, or vacuum bomb, warhead, is also believed to be part of the system's capabilities.

Journalists who managed to report on the area confirmed the use, by the Russians, of the vacuum bomb on the town.

The Local Coordination Committees accused the government of using "vacuum bombs."

Opposition group accuses Syrian government of using 'vacuum bombs'

Vacuum bombs are dropped by parachute, and, when a couple of meters from the ground, release a cloud of petrol gas.

Syrian regime hits school with 'vacuum bombs'

The doors were thick stainless steel with reaper locks, and nothing short of a vacuum bomb would dent the densecris window.

Evidence at the scene and witness testimony led Human Rights Watch to conclude that the 14 dead, many of them children, were killed by "vacuum bombs."

He specialised in identifying weapons banned from use in civilian areas such as thermobaric weapons including 'vacuum bombs'.

Daraya is being hit with cluster bombs, vacuum bombs and rockets and we are receiving people for treatment from suffocation in the field hospital,' he said.

Tanks and howitzers fired into the town, and the army also fired mortars, gravity bombs, vacuum bombs and cluster bombs.

Darwish wrote: "On this day, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb, they are trying out the vacuum bomb on our flesh and the experiment is successful."

MOSCOW -- Russia has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shock wave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said.

They can be caused by powerful conventional weapons, like vacuum bombs, including the ATBIP and GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast.

The Syrian regime is using ""vacuum bombs"" to target civilians, it has emerged, as a team of disarmament experts arrived in Damascus on Tuesday to dismantle the country's chemical weapons stocks.

Other terms used for this family of weapons are high-impulse thermobaric weapons (HITs), heat and pressure weapons, vacuum bombs, or fuel-air explosives (FAE or FAX).

Last September, the Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber, codenamed 'blackjack' by NATO, was used to test a powerful vacuum bomb, which can unleash a powerful shockwave comparable with a nuclear explosion.

I need only recall our more than shameful silence on the crime of the war in Chechnya after it became known that Russia had used a new weapon of mass destruction - the vacuum bomb - against its own civilian population.

That has not deterred Assad's forces, which deny having used chemical weapons, from using vacuum bombs on several occasions, according to opposition activists and independent observers who track online videos and other accounts of the fighting in Syria.

Although the toll on structures is impossible to verify, the weapons the government is turning against civilian populations have become increasingly destructive, activists say, with TNT barrel bombs and vacuum bombs wiping out entire buildings in one blow.

President Bashar al Assad's forces have used cluster bombs and vacuum bombs and are accused by the West of firing rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin into districts outside Damascus in August, killing hundreds.

Thermobaric or fuel-air explosives, known as vacuum bombs, are a small but fearsome part of the conventional array of artillery, tanks and aircraft Syrian troops have deployed since hostilities broke out in the wake of street protests in 2011.