After Thursday’s successful combat use in Afghanistan of the newest weapon in America’s arsenal, dubbed the “Mother of All Bombs,” reports indicate Russia has developed something even more powerful.
Russia claims to have a thermobaric bomb four times more powerful than the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) deployed against an ISIS terrorist stronghold in the Nangarhar province in Afghanistan.
Some see the use of MOAB as a message to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and other hostile leaders that America will take a tougher stance against its foes.
Learn more about the Russian effort to keep pace in weapon development and other U.S. initiatives on the next page.
On a lighter note, from an unidentified source, we have warehouses of the GFOAB. However, Russia does have fine vodka.
Wow this turned into some serious$#%&!@*swinging…
They don’t measure the power by weight buddy… they measure it by its concussive force at different distances.
That would make sense but the article States ” It carries 44 tons of TNT and explodes in the same way as its American counterpart, obliterating anything within the blast zone, collapsing buildings and producing huge blasts and aftershocks.”
As a retired Targeteer from the USAF, I am intimately aware of how weapons classified. My point is the wording of the article. It says nothing at all about yield, only that it CARRIES 44 tons of TNT.
Ughh… so Russia has a bigger bomb then the one we just used… we used it to get it out of storage from 2007 because they more than likely have something better they need to put on the rack til 2027… and jesus christ do you think they’re going to let civilians know that they had someone foreign scientist kidnapped and built continent killers… I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out there’s hundreds of the nastiest biological and viral humanity ending engineered c**p in the basement just waiting to be dusted off…
DREAM ON$#%&!@*
The one we just delivered to ISIS tunnels weighed 21,000 lbs. It’s the closest to the Nuclear bomb. AKA Hiroshima.
This is like deja Vu! My bomb is bigger than your bomb, my army is bigger than your army!
well, tell them to get off there hands and drop one or two on the North Korea Nuc sites.. i’m sure the US and Even Japan would get it on some of that action!!