Thermobaric weapon Wikipedia
Blast from a US Navy fuelair explosive used against a decommissioned ship, USS McNulty, 1972 A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, is a type of explosive munitions that work by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive. Thermobaric weapons are almost fuel and as a result are significantly more energetic than conventional explosives ...