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Old 09-12-2007, 05:16 PM   #1
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Default Father of all Bombs -- Thermobaric / Vacuum / Ultrasonic Shockwave Bomb
Russia tests superstrength bomb: military

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By Dmitry Solovyov
September 11, 2007

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said on Tuesday, dubbing it the "father of all bombs."

The bomb is the latest in a series of new Russian weapons and policy moves as President Vladimir Putin tries to reassert Moscow's role on the international stage.

"Test results of the new airborne weapon have shown that its efficiency and power is commensurate with a nuclear weapon," Alexander Rukshin, Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff, told Russia's state ORT First Channel television. The same report was later shown on the state-sponsored Vesti channel.

"You will now see it in action, the bomb which has no match in the world is being tested at a military site."

It showed a Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber dropping the bomb over a testing ground. A large explosion followed.

Pictures showed what looked like a flattened multi-storey block of flats surrounded by scorched soil and boulders. "The soil looks like a lunar landscape," the report said.

"The defense ministry stresses this military invention does not contradict a single international treaty. Russia is not unleashing a new arms race."

Such devices generally detonate in two stages. First a small blast disperses a main load of explosive material into a cloud, which then either spontaneously ignites in air or is set off by a second charge.

This explosion generates a pressure wave that reaches much further than that from a conventional explosive. The consumption of gases in the blast also generates a partial vacuum that can compound damage and injuries caused by the explosion itself.

"The main destruction is inflicted by an ultrasonic shockwave and an incredibly high temperature," the reports said. "All that is alive merely evaporates."

Rukshin said: "At the same time, I want to stress that the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one."

"FATHER OF ALL BOMBS"

The Tu-160 supersonic bomber that dropped the bomb, widely known under its NATO nickname of "Blackjack," is the heaviest combat aircraft ever built.

Putin, who has overseen the roll-out of new tactical and anti-aircraft missiles and combat aircraft, has ordered "Blackjacks" and the Tu-95 "Bear" bombers to patrol around the world.

The report said the new bomb was much stronger than the U.S.-built Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb -- MOAB, also known under its name "Mother of All Bombs." "So, Russian designers called the new weapon 'Father of All Bombs'," it said.

Showing the orange-painted U.S. prototype, the report said the Russian bomb was four times more powerful -- 44 metric tons of TNT equivalent -- and the temperature at the epicenter of its blast was two times higher.

In 1999 Russian generals threatened to use vacuum bombs to wipe out rebels from the mountains during the "anti-terrorist operation" in its restive Chechnya province.

New York-based Human Rights Watch then appealed to Putin to refrain from using fuel-air explosives. It remains unclear if weapons of this type were used during the Chechen war.

U.S. forces have used a "thermobaric" bomb, which works on similar principles, in their campaign against al Qaeda and Taliban forces in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

"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.

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Old 09-12-2007, 05:29 PM   #2
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Russia tests the world's largest ever non-nuclear bomb

The GUARDIAN
September 12, 2007

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.


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.


It has been nicknamed the Father 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.

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.


A computer image of a new ordnance from Russian TV which is claimed by
the Russian military to be the world's most powerful non-nuclear bomb.

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.

©2007 Associated Newspapers Ltd
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Old 09-12-2007, 06:43 PM   #3
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Like Iran,Koria & Pakestan
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Old 09-12-2007, 07:34 PM   #4
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Russian Bomb Video


Compares US MOAB (mother of all bombs) with RU FOAB (father of all bombs).
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Old 09-12-2007, 08:19 PM   #5
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ain't we something' What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?Man delights not me ...***
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Old 09-12-2007, 08:33 PM   #6
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MOAB

FOAB

FUBAR
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Old 09-12-2007, 08:54 PM   #7
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= FU A RAB
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Old 09-12-2007, 09:15 PM   #8
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WHAT
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Old 09-12-2007, 10:35 PM   #9
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uh...uh... it was a typo, should read:

U AR FAB!
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Old 09-13-2007, 06:07 AM   #10
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ummm, not really ^^^ ...

u ar fab
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Old 09-13-2007, 01:19 PM   #11
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And U AR FAB too... (Father of All Bombs). Baby.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gb0mxcpPOU&NR=1
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Old 09-13-2007, 04:53 PM   #12
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Old 09-13-2007, 08:30 PM   #13
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So, I guess this means the cold war is back on.
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Old 09-13-2007, 09:47 PM   #14
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Buckaroo Bush and Rootin' Tootin' Putin.
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Old 09-13-2007, 09:58 PM   #15
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Damn, Russa...

Better spend that money on feeding your masses.

What ever happend to "peace, land, and bread"?
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Old 09-13-2007, 10:06 PM   #16
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ONYC, that works in theory, but we all know something like that would not work in the real world....

I am also in support of a more philanthropic world. A place where teh poorest of the poor does not hae to worry about the basic needs of man. But something about how man works and how society runs does not allow for that without contestation.

I too think it was stupid of them to go for more destruction. We all have enough to destroy just about anything in about a dozen different ways (cluster bombs, incindiaries, daisycutters, MOAB, nuclear, biological, etc), but we always look for one more.

Sad part is, the country that stops looking for the nes one is left with bronze swords and shields to fight the newest Iron carrying phalanxes.

And if THAT does not beat all, many of our more humanistic developments have derived from military research into more destructive applications.



At least a weapon like this is more tracable, does not (for the most part) leave leftovers after manyfacture, storage or detonation, and looks better in the latest fall catalogs.

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Old 09-13-2007, 11:11 PM   #17
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Operation Crossroads: Bikini Atoll

Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted in the summer of 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The series consisted of two detonations, a low altitude test and a shallow water test. The devices, each with a yield of 21 kilotons, were named shots ABLE and BAKER. A planned third test, a deep underwater detonation, was canceled after the second test.

The series was intended to study the effects of nuclear weapons on warships, equipment, and material. These tests would provide important information on the survivability of warships in the event of nuclear war. Both the Navy and the Army Air Forces were, given the possible budgetary effects of such tests, very interested in the outcome of these experiments. From a scientific point of view, technical experiments were also planned on nuclear weapon explosion phenomena and radiation contamination.

In contrast to all later atmospheric nuclear tests, a large media contingent was present for the two Crossroads detonations. They were allowed to cover the test atomic bomb explosions "with sufficient thoroughness to satisfy the public as to the fairness and general results of the experiment." Quartered aboard USS Appalachian (AGC-1), 131 newspaper, magazine, and radio correspondents from the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and Britain covered the detonations, turning these experiments into major media events. In addition, the three artists presented here also recorded the project: Gunnery Sergeant Grant Powers, USMC, was the official combat artist for the operation while Lieutenant Commander Arthur Beaumont, USNR, and Captain Charles Bittinger, USNR, were observers.




Mike Hour
Grant Powers #7
Watercolor, 1946
88-181-G

At 0900 on 1 July, test ABLE detonated about 518 feet above the target fleet. The surface temperature of the resulting fireball was about 100,000 degrees Fahrenheit, scorching wood, paint and metal alike.




The First Bomb at Bikini
Charles Bittinger #3
Oil on canvas, 1946
Gift of the artist
95-129-C

Captured at the peak of formation, this painting illustrates the classic mushroom cloud shape. The pink color of the cloud is due to the oxidation of nitrogen caused by high heat and radiation from the explosion. The rapidly cooling fireball is the cause of the red glow seen deep within the cloud. The blast wave created the massive waves and steam that engulfed the target fleet at the bottom.




Atomic Bomb Explosion, Sub-Surface Blast
Charles Bittinger
Oil on canvas, 1946
Gift of Martha Burroughs
66-364-A

Another view of the BAKER bomb. The color pattern was caused by coral and other debris sucked up from the bottom of the lagoon.




Late stage of Baker
Charles Bittinger #2
Oil on canvas, 1946
Gift of the artist
95-129-B

A dramatic view of the collapsing cloud raining millions of gallons of radioactive water over the target fleet, throughly contaminating both the warships and the lagoon. For several hours after the explosion a fine mist rained down over the area.

http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/bikini/bikini1.htm
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Old 09-14-2007, 01:06 AM   #18
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"Outstanding"
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Old 09-14-2007, 04:02 AM   #19
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The classic non-film (poster only, alas) titled "Bedtime for Brezhnev" will have to be updated with a smarmy Putin approach. How about "The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies?" Now THAT's what I would call a BOMB.
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