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The Father of All Bombs: Russian Might (With Slow-Motions)

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On September 11, 2007, a Russian Tupolev Tu-160 heavy bomber deployed a 7.8-tonne thermobaric bomb. It exploded above the target, and proved to be the world's most powerful conventional bomb. Compared to the GBU-43 MOAB (the world's largest conventional bomb), it produced a blast radius twice as large (300 meters). The Russian "Father Of All Bombs" (FOAB) managed to produce the energy of 44 tonnes of TNT from only 7.8 tonnes of a new type of explosive developed using nanotechnology. The MOAB was able to produce the energy of 11 tonnes of TNT from 8 tonnes of tritonal high-explosive. The Russian FOAB can produce a shockwave as powerful as the blast wave generated by a nuclear weapon. How? Because it was a vacuum bomb, or fuel-air bomb.

Fuel-air (or thermobaric) bombs work in two stages. In the first stage, the bomb disperses a HUGE cloud of high-explosive liquid into a misty cloud. The second stage involves igniting the explosive cloud of flammable liquid, generating a massive shockwave capable of shredding a fiberglass mannequin.

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  • ok this is how it ...

    ok this is how it is, we have have to go by the rules of war. ASSHOLE COWARDS DONT!!! and for anyone who cares im all about fighting by any means needed just think about that. glad yanks have restraint. oh S**t yeah weres russian might now?

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  • USArCOWARDS just so ...

    USArCOWARDS just so you know i'm russian but this is just basic history...i have a huge connection with russia and i have cousins in the military and their friends invaded georgia (which russia failed, their obj was to capture oil pipelines)...i didnt say that soviets won afghan war i said they won statistically...USA didnt lose the korean war neither did they win. Soviet technology was annihilated in the 6 day war and in iraq war...america isnt in war in iraq its more of an occupation.

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  • I'm sorry I just ...

    I'm sorry I just got done reading about Dunkirk, now what were you saying? O, wait, your not speaking german? Hey your welcome.

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  • Why would you "LMAO ...

    Why would you "LMAO" over millions of people dieing over trivial political problems.

    Also you call the Americans or "yankees" cowards while also saying that a large quantity of them and their allies lost their lives in this war. So basically you are contradicting yourself. If they were such "cowards" then they would have fled instead of fighting because their government (however wrong it may have been) told them this is how they could best help their country.

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  • name the last war ...

    name the last war the uk won with out the help of america

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