DESTRUCTION: The world's largest non-nuclear bomb tested by Russians
Posted on 09/11/2007 5:59:17 PM PDT by Stoat
Russia has exploded the world's biggest non-nuclear bomb in a dramatic escalation of the new Cold War.
Nicknamed 'the father of all bombs', it was filmed being dropped from a strategic bomber and exploding in a massive fireball.
The film then showed the debris of apartment buildings and armoured vehicles at a testing range, as well as ground burned by a massive explosion.
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DESTRUCTION: The world's largest non-nuclear bomb tested by Russians
It didn't give the bomb's military name or say when it was tested.
Yuri Balyko, head of the Russian defence ministry's institute in charge of weapons design, said yesterday: "We have got a relatively cheap ordnance with a high strike power."
The test comes as Russia spends massively increased oil revenue on rebuilding its military might.
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It has been nicknamed the "dad of all bombs" and is four times more powerful than the U.S. "mother of all bombs."
The device is said to be four times more powerful than America's Massive Ordnance Air Blast, nicknamed the Mother Of All Bombs.
It would target more specific areas than nuclear bombs, and is an immediate threat to problem areas such as Chechnya.
Last night a source close to the US National Security Council said it was a "matter of concern" that Moscow would develop such a huge weapon at a time when there was no obvious need.
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A computer image of a new ordnance from Russian tv which is claimed by the Russian military the world's most powerful non-nuclear bomb
He added that the US would ask for an explanation. He said there was "no chance" that America would become involved in a new arms race with the Russians and that the US had no use for bombs larger than the ones already in its arsenal.
While US intelligence was aware that Moscow was working on a new thermobaric device, it did not know that a test was imminent.
The latest raising of tension by Russia comes after president Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War era practice of flying bombers on long-range patrols.
Last week Royal Air Force fighter jets were scrambled to intercept eight Russian military planes flying in airspace patrolled by Nato.
The incident was the latest this summer in which British fighters have been used to warn off long-range Russian reconnaissance aircraft.
The so-called Mother of all Bombs is the biggest weapon in America's arsenal, capable of detonating 21,000lb of explosives above the ground.
The huge bomb, dropped from a slowmoving C130 Hercules aircraft and guided to its target by the satellite-linked global positioning system, can create temperatures of up to 1,000f (538c).
It is designed to obliterate chemical or biological agents concealed in bunkers.
The US is believed to have 15 in its arsenal but none is believed to have been used against an enemy.
Well, I guess the women and perhaps some of his Generals like parades, so there's that, but when you look at this quote from the related Reuters article:
"It (the bomb) will allow us to safeguard our state's security and fight international terrorism in any circumstances and in any part of the world," Rukshin said.
it says "Chechnya" to me, at least. From Putin's perspective, this sort of thing would be perfect to swat down any insurrection in that arena.... a massive, impressive fireball of a "secret explosive" over a wide area that would tend to have a 'deterrent effect' on future uprisings, no radioactive fallout, quick deployment and minimal international diplomatic problems, compared, at least, with using a nuke..
“Although it has never been used, the US military says the MOAB is capable of destroying nine city blocks in one strike.”
“According to Gen Alexander Rushkin, the Russian deputy chief of staff, the new bomb is smaller than the MOAB but much deadlier because, due to nanotechnology, the temperature at the epicentre of the blast is twice as high.”
Your physics is rusty. During those 39 ns, the average power output of the tsar bomba was 5.4 * 10^24 watts (50 megatons / 39 ns). At any particular moment, the sun is outputting energy at a rate of 3.85 * 10^26 watts.
Dividing through, the bomb was about 1.4% of the sun, for those brief 39ns. It sounds amazing, because it is. Should conditions make the need for such a device practical, it is technologically feasible to have the brightest object in the solar system right here on Earth.
Steak and drinks!!! Wow I should of gone to prison earlier!
Not an urban legend. Manhattan Project actually calculated reaction temperatures and area/volume to see if Trinity would set off a N2-O2 burn that would sustain. It’s in Richard Rhode’s book The Making of the Atom Bomb as well as other related books.
The calculation said “no”.
Likewise the RHIC at Brookhaven and PBFA I and PBFA II (now Saturn and Z Machine) were checked to see if they’d make micro black holes that would break containment and settle into Earth and collapse it to the size of a walnut. Calculation said “no” so they turned them on.
Don't I feel stupid. I saw Hercules C130 mentioned in the article and, while it seemed mighty strange that the Russians could get one and use it, I went with that. The C130 mention was for the MOAB, not the Russian bomb. Duh...
But, my point remains. The Tupolev Tu-160 can handle over 40 tons of payload.
“Sun is 3.8 x 10^23 kiloWatts/sec.”
Here’s a problem. A Watt is a Joule/sec so it’s already “per time”.
Compare Joules released in the bomb total vs joules released by the Sun in 40 ns.
A kiloton TNT is 4.18E+12 Joules.
It was just like the guy had been reading this particular thread.
No doubt he'll be back today ~ so, just in case, here's the answer ~ the qanat system can be quite diffuse, and although a large part of it consists of small, shallow tunnels barely covered by flat rocks, there are thousands of miles of far larger tunnels that are deep in the Earth.
Takes a lot of penetrators to destroy such a system. A FOAB deals with the atmosphere in the vicinity of the qanat system and can make the area unlivable while at the same time sanitizing it of any defensive anti-personnel equipment or chemicals.
Then you send in the troops to clear out the nukes!
Leastwise, that's the way I see the Russian approach to the problem. Penetrators would simply release radioactive waste and possibly create some fallout that'd come down in the Caspian ~ much to the distress of the Russians living there!
If Tsar Bomba had detonated at its maximum 100 MT yield, it could have resulted in a fireball almost 6 miles across. Lethal effects would be felt in an area the size of Maryland. Still, such destructive power would be dwarfed by a relatively small asteroid impacting the surface of the Earth.
So the Russians did not invent communism. That’s all.
“Is there a video of this somewhere?”
in Sandy Berger’s pants.
Ummm... I wasn't feeling stupid, merely confused by your post. Thank you for your clarification :-)
So then if it's true that both aircraft could easily carry 8 or eleven tons of payload, I suppose the question remains as to why they bothered themselves to engineer a "secret explosive" that produces such a great yield when they could have gotten that yield with a bomb that they could also have carried in existing aircraft.. There's obviously a whole lot missing from the currently available 'news' reports that would help a lot toward answering such questions.
Let that be a lesson to all! You will all be assimilated!
"evil, echoing laugh"
MOAB is not a penetrator bomb. Massive Ordinance Air Blast. The MOP, or Massive Ordinance Penetrator, is a penetrator bomb.
Sputnik ring any bells?
The periodic table (chemistry)
The helicopter (Sikorsky?)
Well, thank God for that! I don't know what we'd do if we didn't have a Sputnik in every garage nowadays. Hey, come over some time and we can shoot some hoops with mine.
The periodic table (chemistry) Not an invention
The helicopter (Sikorsky?) Nope, the first helicopter had been built and flown years before Sikorsky ever began working on his.
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