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Meanings of fuel-air bomb in English

A bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive.

      A bomb that generally detonate in two stages: a small blast creates a cloud of explosive material, which is then ignited with devastating effect.

            Usage of fuel-air bomb in English
            1
            Fuel-air bombs were an appropriate choice of weapon, in my view.
            Agent 6
            2
            "On the beach it was fuel-air bombs," Tekla continued.
            Seveneves
            3
            Missiles that dug under and shattered bedrock, cluster bombs that fragmented into a thousand bomblets, vaporized fuel-air bombs that incinerated anything near them.
            All You Need Is Kill
            4
            "A fuel-air bomb of some description, I believe," he said, injecting himself with something brown and lumpy.
            Crooked little vein