Russia builds "Most powerful bombs"

[Vandole]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09 ... index.html

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world's most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, Russia's state television reported Tuesday.

It was the latest show of Russia's military muscle amid chilly relations with the United States.

Channel One television said the new weapon, nicknamed the "dad of all bombs" is four times more powerful than the U.S. "mother of all bombs."

"The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordnance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency and capability," said Col.-Gen. Alexander Rukshin, a deputy chief of the Russian military's General Staff, said in televised remarks.

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added.

The statement reflected the Kremlin's efforts to restore Russia's global clout and rebuild the nation's military might while the ties with Washington have been strained over U.S. criticism of Russia's backsliding on democracy, Moscow's vociferous protests of U.S. missile defense plans, and rifts over global crises.

The U.S. Massive Ordnance Air Blast, nicknamed the Mother Of All Bombs, is a large-yield satellite-guided, air-delivered bomb described as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in history.

Channel One said that while the Russian bomb contains 7.8 tons of high explosives compared to more than 8 tons of explosives in the U.S. bomb, it's four times more powerful because it uses a new, highly efficient type of explosives that the report didn't identify.

While the U.S. bomb is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT, the Russian one is equivalent to 44 tons of regular explosives. The Russian weapon's blast radius is 990 feet, twice as big as that of the U.S. design, the report said.

Like its U.S. predecessor, first tested in 2003, the Russian bomb is a "thermobaric" weapon that explodes in an intense fireball combined with a devastating blast. It explodes in a terrifying nuclear bomb-like mushroom cloud and wreaks destruction through a massive shock wave created by the air burst and high temperature.

Thermobaric weapons work on the same principle that causes blasts in grain elevators and other dusty places -- clouds of fine particles are highly explosive. Such explosions produce shock waves that can be directed and amplified in enclosed spaces such as buildings, caves or tunnels.

Channel One said that the temperature in the epicenter of the Russian bomb's explosion is twice as high as that of the U.S. bomb.

The report showed the bomb dropped by parachute from a Tu-160 strategic bomber and exploding in a massive fireball. It featured the debris of apartment buildings and armored vehicles at a test range, as well as the scorched ground from a massive blast.

It didn't give the bomb's military name or say when it was tested.\

Rukshin said the new bomb would allow the military to "protect the nation's security and confront international terrorism in any situation and any region."

"We have got a relatively cheap ordnance with a high strike power," Yuri Balyko, head of the Defense Ministry's institute in charge of weapons design, told Channel One.
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Booming oil prices have allowed Russia to steadily increase military spending in recent years, and the Kremlin has taken a more assertive posture in global affairs.

Last month, President Vladimir Putin said he ordered the resumption of regular patrols of strategic bombers, which were suspended after the 1991 Soviet breakup.

.....is ww3 coming sooner than we think?

[Fallso]

Oh dear, this isn't good.

[Obev]

Brb, moving to Switzerland.

[Norelco]

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added.

Except for destroying EVERYTHING IN ITS BLAST RADIUS!!!

[BRP]

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added.

Except for destroying EVERYTHING IN ITS BLAST RADIUS!!!

I see it as "We care about the environment, going halfway for the hippies".

[guartz]

Well Bush is insistent on building missiles on russia's doorstep, this is only a logical response. I'm not defending Putin for stopping the CFE treaty, but I understand.

[Senoska]

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added.

Except for destroying EVERYTHING IN ITS BLAST RADIUS!!!

I see it as "We care about the environment, going halfway for the hippies".

What he is saying is "When we throw a nuke at the US we would get the overdraft radiation. With this bomb, it just fucks them up."

[Not Kuno]

Enviornment friendly = Doesn't ruins other people's shit or make the place un-livable after you decide to move in.

[Demosthenes11]

Well Bush is insistent on building missiles on russia's doorstep, this is only a logical response. I'm not defending Putin for stopping the CFE treaty, but I understand.

r u cereal? People usually just joke with "george bush's fault!!!!!1"
lol

[Bartylby]

can't we all just get along












lol

[Kyreth]

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added.

Except for destroying EVERYTHING IN ITS BLAST RADIUS!!!

Metric fuckton better than post nuclear radiation fallout/contamination. The planet recovers a lot better from volcanic levels of heat than having the ground glow for a few centuries.

Much as seeing hideously powerful bombs is a horrible thing for peace, it's twice as bad knowing that people have one less reason to NOT use the things. A nuclear-yield-level bomb without the side effects will have the Russians begging for someone stupid enough to give them the excuse to use it to make an example.

[thestalkmore]

SHIT EVERYONE START BUILDING SHELTERS AGAIN

[Blackmagik]

SHIT EVERYONE START BUILDING SHELTERS AGAIN

already ahead of yeah "

[guartz]

Well Bush is insistent on building missiles on russia's doorstep, this is only a logical response. I'm not defending Putin for stopping the CFE treaty, but I understand.

r u cereal? People usually just joke with "george bush's fault!!!!!1"
lol

it's tru tho, its totally his fault. Russia was just gonna chill, out of the picture. but bush decided to build missiles in czech republic pointing at Moscow. So putin is like, what bitch, I got bigger bombs now. try ur shit.

[Jotaru]

but bush decided to build missiles in czech republic pointing at Moscow. So putin is like, what bitch, I got bigger bombs now. try ur shit.

Hadn't heard of this before, but uh. Cuba missile crisis anyone?

Hopefully Russia has a JFK ; ;

[guartz]

but bush decided to build missiles in czech republic pointing at Moscow. So putin is like, what bitch, I got bigger bombs now. try ur shit.

Hadn't heard of this before, but uh. Cuba missile crisis anyone?

Hopefully Russia has a JFK ; ;

The project is called Missile Defense in Eastern Europe. ironic name, since it's basically a first strike capability unit. It's marketed to the Europeans as a defense against Iranian threat. Although Iran has no long range missiles, and if it did, it has no fking reason to attack Europe. So that makes very little sense, apart from isolating Russia from any reprisals. Meaning America can do whatever it wants militarily, and russia wont be able to respond because there are american missiles 800 miles away from it's capital.

It's global dominance project. However even if the missiles are intended for Iran, it's an escalation and is in violation of UN treaties. (like dozens of them) ...Also, during the cold war when Gorbachev allowed germany to join the hostile alliance, it was agreed that NATO wouldn't expand further into the east. Another violation of the treaty.

Bush thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants in the world, not only is it making everyone hate america even more, it's raising the potential of a terminal nuclear war.

[Charla]

but bush decided to build missiles in czech republic pointing at Moscow. So putin is like, what bitch, I got bigger bombs now. try ur shit.

Hadn't heard of this before, but uh. Cuba missile crisis anyone?

Hopefully Russia has a JFK ; ;

The project is called Missile Defense in Eastern Europe. ironic name, since it's basically a first strike capability unit. It's marketed to the Europeans as a defense against Iranian threat. Although Iran has no long range missiles, and if it did, it has no fking reason to attack Europe. So that makes very little sense, apart from isolating Russia from any reprisals. Meaning America can do whatever it wants militarily, and russia wont be able to respond because there are american missiles 800 miles away from it's capital.

It's global dominance project. However even if the missiles are intended for Iran, it's an escalation and is in violation of UN treaties. (like dozens of them) ...Also, during the cold war when Gorbachev allowed germany to join the hostile alliance, it was agreed that NATO wouldn't expand further into the east. Another violation of the treaty.

Bush thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants in the world, not only is it making everyone hate america even more, it's raising the potential of a terminal nuclear war.

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[Venture]

We've been in World War III for a good 6 years now. What 60-year old dogma concerning warfare do you archiaclly subscribe to?

[Demosthenes11]

all the world's problems can be traced back to bush, including AIDS. It's true

[ozz]

all of the US bombs they talk about in the article are in museums
they only made them to scare the enemiez...or something