Flit’s resident weapons expert Bruce Rolston has several really insightful posts on Strategic bombers. And sandwiched between is a link to his December discussions of thermobaric munitions, which as Bruce notes “is what you call a fuel-air bomb when the good guys use it.”

protein wisdom provides you with some December backstory of its own, below.

[update: Bruce has added a third installment]

[update 2: For some reason, the archive links (to the old Blogspot version of protein wisdom) take you only to day of an original post, rather than to the post itself. For your convenience, then, here’s the original December 22, 2001 post on BLU-1186 in its entirety:

BLU-1186, BLU-1186