CHINA LAKE
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

Second-Generation Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE II) delivery sequence (from data film) at China Lake, 1976; FAE II is an antimaterial/antimine weapon; NWC developed 500- (BLU-95) and 2,000-pound (BLU-96) FAE IIs during the 1970s and '80s as part of its family of FAE weapons (FAE I, SLU-FAE, MAD-FAE, CATFAE); note second-event detonators heading for fuel cloud in frames 2-4.