WordNet
fuel-air bomb
n. a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive; "a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb" [syn: thermobaric bomb, vacuum bomb, volume-detonation bomb, aerosol bomb]
Usage examples of "fuel-air bomb".
Then, a fraction of a second later, United Flight 175 exploded with the force of a fuel-air bomb, sending superheated flames and dense, black smoke in all directions.
Antisocialist guerillas had planted a fuel-air bomb aboard one of his fighter-interceptors being used to suppress resistance to American sovietization.
That turned the automobile into a fuel-air bomb of impressive size.
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.