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.
Otherwise it can be quite difficult to attack any sort of force entrenched in a qanat system.
First orbital sat, first launch and reentry of an animal, first animal in orbit, first man in orbit, first woman in space, first pix of the backside of the moon, first pix of the surface of Venus, stuff like that. The AK-47, most popular infantry rifle. Some important nuclear breaktrhroughs.
But it was a long time ago, for sure, that they did anything comparable.
Hot female tennis stars BUMP.
FOAB
Father of all bombs
Freakin’huge Ordinance Air Burst
“Have they EVER invented anything? I mean, other than the oxcart?”
Sputnick? (sp)
Might not be all bad.
Yes. They've learned that it's a good idea to provide massive military and international support to terrorist regimes. To have a common enemy, Russia would have to regard Islamo-Fascists as enemies.
LOL, I wonder why. Both Putin and the Dems long for 1917 Russia.
Come one now, Stoat, you know there's rules around here..........
Hmmm ~ bet you missed that one.
If you take a real good look at their relations with Iran it has something to do with how close they are to the place ~ at the same time the Czars never quite militarily reduced the Persian Empire so that it was a reliable puppet ~ which simply means everything is much more complex than can be imagined.
Hot sopranos with mediocre technical skills too.
In the next ring, from 1.6 miles to 3.1 miles there were 80,300 people and 1700 killed, or about 2% killed.
Overall, within 3.1 miles, the percent killed was 26%.
Hiroshima was ~21 kilotons, or 21,000 tons TNT eq, and the Russian Cousin of All Big Booms here is 11 tons equivalent, yet they are claiming superior performance to the Hiroshima device.
While I have the greatest respect for the Russian people, I fear that this report misrepresents the facts, so I say
Bravo Sierra.
It looks like its modeled after their submarines.
She successfully dealt with millions of Moslems, and where they refused to go along she had them cleared.
Fascinating woman.
I dissagree. I think this is the rooskies method of saying to america “leave iran alone”.
Now, if we can just persuade the Russians to give them to the iranians and the Pakistanis...
They incompetents can't deal with technology beyond explosive vests.,p>Where's that mortar video.... ?
Come one now, Stoat, you know there's rules around here..........
Oh lawdy, I'm sorry.......
Way back in the 1960’s the Russians set off the largest nuclear bomb blast and bragged about. America’s answer was that we would make five smaller bombs totaling the same amount of power and hit five selective targets and do more damage than their one big bomb.
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