THE FATHER OF ALL BOMBS: RUSSIAN MIGHT (WITH SLOW-MOTIONS)

On September 11, 2007, a Russian Tupolev Tu-160 heavy bomber deployed a 7.8-tonne thermobaric bomb. It exploded above the target, and proved to be the world's most powerful conventional bomb. Compared to the GBU-43 MOAB (the world's largest conventional bomb), it produced a blast radius twice as large (300 meters). The Russian "Father Of All Bombs" (FOAB) managed to produce the energy of 44 tonnes of TNT from only 7.8 tonnes of a new type of explosive developed using nanotechnology. The MOAB was able to produce the energy of 11 tonnes of TNT from 8 tonnes of tritonal high-explosive. The Russian FOAB can produce a shockwave as powerful as the blast wave generated by a nuclear weapon. How? Because it was a vacuum bomb, or fuel-air bomb.

Fuel-air (or thermobaric) bombs work in two stages. In the first stage, the bomb disperses a HUGE cloud of high-explosive liquid into a misty cloud. The second stage involves igniting the explosive cloud of flammable liquid, generating a massive shockwave capable of shredding a fiberglass mannequin.