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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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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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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