spectr17
09-12-2001, 11:14 PM
A lot of people are wondering why the WTC towers toppled and how could an airplane crash into them knock them down. Even the engineers are saying they were built to withstand a 707 crash into them.
What the engineers didn't figure was someone using a large fuel air explosive (FAE), or fuel air bomb as they are known in the military, to ignite a huge firestorm and then melt the steel that supported the towers.
Fuel Air Explosives (FAE's) work by dispersing a cloud of combustible material, then igniting the resulting mixture. This is done for a variety of reasons. ###First, it increases the effective area over which the explosion will take place. ###Second, by dispersing the fuel in a mist or cloud form, you increase the total reactible surface area (i.e. the area of the droplet or particle exposed to oxygen in the air).
Finally, wide area dispersion means that there is more air mixed in with the fuel, which means that your explosive is properly respirated and the quantity of reactible oxygen isn't a limiting factor in the power of the explosion. This is the huge fireball you see in the TV news videos of the 2 planes crashing into the WTC towers.
The fuel used in fuel-air explosives can be virtually anything combustible. Military FAE's tend to use something like kerosene. Solid particulate matter can be used as well, and the accidental explosions occasionally suffered by grain elevators are a form of FAE. ###
Fuel-air bombs (a.k.a aerosol bombs, vacuum bombs, volume-detonation bombs) were first developed in Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Other countries also experimented with this weapon, but the Germans were the first to come up with a design that could be actually used in combat.
Such bombs existed for decades and are a part of the arsenal of many countries, including Yugoslavia. For the first time vacuum bombs were used on a large scale in combat by the Soviet Air Force in Afghanistan to destroy mountainous hideouts of Islamic fighters. (There is ample evidence that vacuum bombs were used by the USAF in Vietnam, but Americans vehemently deny this.) I'm trying to get a buddy's pic of a FAE bomb being dropped out the back of a C-130 in Vietnam to show what they look like.
These bombs proved to be very effective. During the Operation Desert Storm fuel-air shells were used by American artillery and the USAF used fuel-air bombs. When the British forward observers saw the huge mushroom cloud from one of our FAE bomb drops in the Gulf War they reported it as a tactical nuke detonation.
Vacuum bombs were also used by the Russian Air Force during the 1994-1996 Chechen war.
What the engineers didn't figure was someone using a large fuel air explosive (FAE), or fuel air bomb as they are known in the military, to ignite a huge firestorm and then melt the steel that supported the towers.
Fuel Air Explosives (FAE's) work by dispersing a cloud of combustible material, then igniting the resulting mixture. This is done for a variety of reasons. ###First, it increases the effective area over which the explosion will take place. ###Second, by dispersing the fuel in a mist or cloud form, you increase the total reactible surface area (i.e. the area of the droplet or particle exposed to oxygen in the air).
Finally, wide area dispersion means that there is more air mixed in with the fuel, which means that your explosive is properly respirated and the quantity of reactible oxygen isn't a limiting factor in the power of the explosion. This is the huge fireball you see in the TV news videos of the 2 planes crashing into the WTC towers.
The fuel used in fuel-air explosives can be virtually anything combustible. Military FAE's tend to use something like kerosene. Solid particulate matter can be used as well, and the accidental explosions occasionally suffered by grain elevators are a form of FAE. ###
Fuel-air bombs (a.k.a aerosol bombs, vacuum bombs, volume-detonation bombs) were first developed in Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Other countries also experimented with this weapon, but the Germans were the first to come up with a design that could be actually used in combat.
Such bombs existed for decades and are a part of the arsenal of many countries, including Yugoslavia. For the first time vacuum bombs were used on a large scale in combat by the Soviet Air Force in Afghanistan to destroy mountainous hideouts of Islamic fighters. (There is ample evidence that vacuum bombs were used by the USAF in Vietnam, but Americans vehemently deny this.) I'm trying to get a buddy's pic of a FAE bomb being dropped out the back of a C-130 in Vietnam to show what they look like.
These bombs proved to be very effective. During the Operation Desert Storm fuel-air shells were used by American artillery and the USAF used fuel-air bombs. When the British forward observers saw the huge mushroom cloud from one of our FAE bomb drops in the Gulf War they reported it as a tactical nuke detonation.
Vacuum bombs were also used by the Russian Air Force during the 1994-1996 Chechen war.