"The Father of All Bombs" (FOAB) | |
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Type | Thermobaric |
Place of origin | Russia |
Production history | |
Designer | Russian Armed Forces |
Produced | 2007 |
Specifications | |
Mass | 7,100 kg (15,650 lb)[citation needed] |
Filling | High explosive and fine aluminium powder and ethylene oxide mix.[citation needed] |
Blast yield | 44 t (97,000 lb) of TNT |
Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP),[a] nicknamed "Father of All Bombs" (FOAB; Russian: "Папа всех бомб", Пвб[b]), is a Russian-designed, bomber-delivered thermobaric weapon.
This weapon was claimed to be the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapon in the world, more powerful than GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, which is often unofficially called "Mother of All Bombs" or MOAB.[1][2]
FOAB was successfully field-tested in the late evening of 11 September 2007.[3]
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