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Fuel air - you can make one out of a plastic drum with a battery pump to spray as it goes down, and a fuse. Picture petrol gas reaching up 200 feet or more firing up... ka-BOOOOM! The shock wave can knock down buildings.... the flames set fire to anything flammable... these were originally designed as a blast bomb to clear firebases out of mountain top foliage.... and incidentally remove any opposition there.... flatten the trees etc, drop in the troops and guns and fix up your perimeter on the high ground with 360 degree coverage of surrounding areas.
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Mark 84 General Purpose bomb
Type Low-drag general-purpose bomb
Place of origin United States
Service history
In service Since 1950s
Production history
Manufacturer General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems
Unit cost US$16,000
Variants
GBU-10 Paveway II
GBU-15
GBU-24 Paveway III
GBU‐31 JDAM
Specifications
Mass 1,971 lb (894 kg)
Length 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m)
Diameter 18 in (460 mm)
Filling Tritonal, H6 or PBXN-109
Filling weight 944 lb (428 kg)
References Janes[1][2][3][4][5] & The War Zone[6]
The Mark 84 or BLU-117[7] is a 2,000-pound (900 kg) American general-purpose bomb. It is the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service during the Vietnam War, it became a commonly used US heavy unguided bomb to be dropped. At the time, it was the third largest bomb by weight in the US inventory behind the 15,000-pound (6,800 kg) BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" and the 3,000-pound (1,400 kg) M118 "demolition" bomb. It is currently sixth in size due to the addition of the 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) GBU-28 in 1991, the 22,600 lb (10,300 kg) GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB) in 2003, and the 30,000 lb (14,000 kg) Massive Ordnance Penetrator.