MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Putin also has his “Father of all bombs”, allegedly four times more powerful than MOAB
The display of force by the US military with the MOAB type of ordnance has been impressive but such type of weapon is not exclusive of the US arsenal: Russia has a device four times more powerful than the US' monster bomb. The Russian version, called the Father Of All Bombs, weighs just 15,560lbs and is packed with the equivalent to 44 tons of explosive TNT. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCold war, what cold war?
Apr 14th, 2017 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The major advantage of these type of weapons is that you can do the same sort of damage as a nuke without the fallout, and equally as important, without the outrage.
They are still pretty unpleasant though:
“The [blast] kill mechanism against living targets is unique—and unpleasant.... What kills is the pressure wave, and more importantly, the subsequent rarefaction [vacuum], which ruptures the lungs.... If the fuel deflagrates but does not detonate, victims will be severely burned and will probably also inhale the burning fuel. Since the most common FAE fuels, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, are highly toxic, undetonated FAE should prove as lethal to personnel caught within the cloud as most chemical agents.”
and “shock and pressure waves cause minimal damage to brain tissue . . . it is possible that victims of FAEs are not rendered unconscious by the blast, but instead suffer for several seconds or minutes while they suffocate.”
My bomb's bigger than your bomb, so there .......nyah nyah nyah !
Apr 14th, 2017 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ It weighs just 15,560lbs and is packed with the equivalent to 44 tons of explosive TNT.”
and in the next paragraph “It carries 44 tons of TNT ” This is 98560 lbs. Clever to fit that into something that weighs 15,560lbs ! OK I'm being facetious but maybe someone should proof read before printing.
In WW2, IN 1945 the RAF dropped the Grand Slam 10 ton earthquake bomb to destroy underground installations and the Bielefeld viaduct. Instead of an air-blast, it penetrated deeply and caused a mini-earthquake creating “camouflets” which destroyed the foundations. Presumably this would cause a cave system to collapse.
“My bomb's bigger than your bomb, so there .......nyah nyah nyah !”
Apr 14th, 2017 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly. I thought this sort of ridiculous willy-waving had ended with the cold war when I was a child, but apparently that was just an intermission.
The bomb would collapse buildings for sure, but maybe not a cave. It would certainly kill anyone inside in a most unpleasant way though.
And accuracy? In Mercopress? Perish the thought. I usually assume that all the details are bullshit, although that came back to bite me recently...
Sadly the morons that voted for Trump love all this willy-waving. His approval rating climbed 6 points. He had the lowest ever of a new President before the bombing and since all he cares about is himself we can expect more of this shit.
Apr 15th, 2017 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@EB
Apr 15th, 2017 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a depressing thought. I really hope you are wrong, but his actions wrt North Korea are not reassuring.
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