A thermobaric bomb (also called a vacuum or aerosol bomb - or fuel air explosive) consists of a fuel container with two separate explosive charges. This can be launched as a rocket or dropped as a ...

Unlike a bomb designed to actually penetrate a building or the ground, the MOAB (also called a fuel-air bomb) has a “proximity fuse” on its nose that ignites the warhead when it reaches a ...

This was known as a fuel-air explosive ... In 2007 the Russian army released a video of a test of a seven-tonne air-dropped bomb dubbed “the father of all bombs”. This thermobaric device ...

The US military has just dropped its largest conventional (that is non-nuclear) bomb for the first time in combat, on Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air ...

Read also: China hits back: Trump's new tariffs spark trade tensions To clarify, the ODAB-500P is an improvement on the ODAB-500, a Soviet fuel-air bomb introduced in the 1970s. Inside the ODAB ...

This bomb was built using a fully loaded hydrogen fuel cell from a wrecked Toyota Mirai car and weighed over two hundred kilograms. It was capable of inflicting severe damage on Russian defenses ...

Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb. Russia, which acknowledges producing fuel-air munitions, has been accused of using them in several conflicts, including in Ukraine. The weapons have also been ...