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    A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas,...
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    Russian-designed, bomber-delivered thermobaric weapon. This weapon was claimed to be the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapon in the world, more powerful...
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    RPO-A Shmel (category Thermobaric weapons)
    flamethrower "Bumblebee"') is a man-portable, single-use, rocket-assisted thermobaric weapon. While its name directly translates to flamethrower (and it is classified...
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    high-explosive anti-tank rocket. Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq saw a thermobaric rocket added (described as a "novel explosive" (NE)), which can collapse...
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    unexploded bomblets that kill and maim long afterward". Russian thermobaric weapons, also known as "fuel-air bombs", were used by the government side...
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  • Incendiary weapons as a category does not appear to include thermobaric weapons, and international law does not appear to prohibit the use of thermobaric munitions...
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    GBU-57A/B MOP (category Anti-fortification weapons)
    (341 kg) Penetration: 200 ft (61 m) Bunker buster Earthquake bomb Thermobaric weapon Specific large bombs BLU-82 Daisy Cutter bomb Father of All Bombs...
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    634B or TOS-1A Solntsepyok) multiple rocket launcher capable of using thermobaric warheads, mounted on a T-72 / T-90 tank chassis. TOS-1 was designed to...
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  • These may originate from, for example, a sufficiently large BLEVE, a thermobaric weapon explosion or a nuclear blast of sufficient magnitude. Damage to the...
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    Naval Postgraduate School. p. 1. Retrieved 5 July 2024. "BLU-118/B Thermobaric Weapon". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 27 July 2019....
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    operational BLU-82 at the Utah Test and Training Range. M-121 (bomb) Thermobaric weapon Evans, Nicholas D. (2004). Military Gadgets: How Advanced Technology...
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    nuclear weapons. Bunker buster (conventional, non-nuclear) Earthquake bomb Underground nuclear weapons testing Nuclear strategy Thermobaric weapon Nuclear...
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    TOS-2 (category Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia)
    Flamethrower System) is a Russian multiple rocket launcher capable of using thermobaric warheads, mounted on a 3-axle truck chassis. TOS-2 was designed to attack...
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    Bomb (section Thermobaric)
    This rule has been challenged, however, by military development of thermobaric weapons, which employ a combination of negative shock wave effects and extreme...
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  • raised in Oman in 1951 TV Oita, a Japanese TV station TOS-1, a Soviet thermobaric weapon Tam o' Shanter (cap) Atari TOS (The Operating System, also unofficially...
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  • an American scientist responsible for the creation of an American thermobaric weapon. She is noted as the "Scientist who developed the bomb that ended...
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    9M133M Kornet-M (category Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia)
    via a tandem-warhead. There are also Kornet-M variants equipped with thermobaric warheads. Russia has developed a new X-UAV guided aircraft missile.  Algeria...
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    AGM-114 Hellfire (category Thermobaric weapons)
    homing Millimeter-wave radar seeker Warhead: Metal augmented charge (thermobaric), sustained pressure wave with delayed fuze capability Weight: 106 lb...
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    GM-94 (category Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia)
    of the GM-94 with a thermobaric grenade, in 2008 GM-94 was adopted for the branches of the Federal Security Service. The weapon was used in the battle...
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    Buratino, Soviet / Russian Heavy Flame Thrower System (multiple rocket / thermobaric weapon launcher) "Polonez Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), Belarus -...
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    safely contained under certain carefully controlled conditions. Thermobaric weapons exploit this principle by rapidly saturating an area with an easily...
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  • of heavy weapons, such as tanks and Shmel rocket flamethrowers. Their usage was officially confirmed. The Shmel is a type of thermobaric weapon, described...
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    GBU-43/B MOAB (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 2003)
    military announced that they had tested a thermobaric weapon nicknamed the "Father of All Bombs" ("FOAB"). The weapon is claimed to be four times as powerful...
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    9M123 Khrizantema (category Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia)
    tandem HEAT warhead 9M123F – Laser guidance with thermobaric warhead 9M123F-2 – Radar guidance with thermobaric warhead 9M123 Khrizantema-M – Upgraded version...
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  • CBU-72 (category Thermobaric weapons)
    functions as a chemical weapon, due to the highly toxic nature of this gas. First-generation CBU-55 and CBU-72 fuel-air weapons were used in the Vietnam...
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  • a subsum? Thermobaric Weapon Development: Vietnamese-American scientist Dương Nguyệt Ánh is credited with developing the thermobaric weapon, a powerful...
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  • proximity, purity, preheating, and external oxygenation (in the case of thermobaric weapons, gas leaks and BLEVEs). For this article, explosion means "the sudden...
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    MRO-A (category Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia)
    Weight: 4.7 kg Effective Range: 90 m Maximum Range: 450 m Variants: MRO-A (Thermobaric warhead), MRO-D (WP Smoke warhead), MRO-Z (Incendiary warhead)  Hezbollah...
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  • government's purchase of RPO-A Shmel Thermobaric rocket launchers, which are neither banned nor are chemical weapons. The pro-LTTE politician Joseph Pararajasingham...
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    9K720 Iskander (category Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia)
    thermonuclear weapon warheads for the engagement of small and area targets (both moving and stationary), such as hostile fire weapons, air and anti-missile...
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