Recollections of First World War work on fuel-air and incendiary weapons include British 9.2-inch howitzer ammunition and a German shell name rendered as Brandgranate. The examples are used to challenge the assumption that all such concepts originated with modern thermobaric weapons. A participant distinguishes the broader fuel-air category from thermobaric weapons and warns against assigning modern effects to the earlier examples. Carrier fuel stocks and a limited bomb supply are offered as reasons naval planners would be interested in the subject. The specific early identifications and the classification applied to them remain source recollections, without technical documentation reproduced here.
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Fuel-air explosives before the Second World War
First World War fuel-air experiments explain why interwar carrier forces could revisit the idea.