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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Father of All Bombs (redirect from Aviation Thermobaric Bomb with Increased Power)
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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Syrian civil war (section Thermobaric weapons)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nuclear bunker buster (redirect from Earth penetrating weapon)
nuclear weapons. Bunker buster (conventional, non-nuclear) Earthquake bomb Underground nuclear weapons testing Nuclear strategy Thermobaric weapon Nuclear...
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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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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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AGM-114 Hellfire (category Thermobaric weapons)
homing Millimeter-wave radar seeker Warhead: Metal augmented charge (thermobaric), sustained pressure wave with delayed fuse capability Weight: 106 lb...
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prisoners in the occupied Olenivka penal colony were killed with thermobaric weapons”. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) released recordings of taped...
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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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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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Angeles, Ciudad Juárez, and Guanajuato. The novel is named after a thermobaric weapon introduced by the US Marine Corps during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq...
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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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Mushroom cloud (category Nuclear weapons)
similar effect. They can be caused by powerful conventional weapons, like thermobaric weapons such as the ATBIP and GBU-43/B MOAB. Some volcanic eruptions...
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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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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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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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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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