Vacuum Bomb

Russians have tested their most powerful Vacuum bomb ever, with a shockwave comparable to a small battlefield nuclear weapon, very powerful for a conventional weapon.

Jase

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0fe_1189579440

that has alot of power at least it isn't nuclear

Such a device has very limited applications.

- Widescale minefield destruction-disarming/detonation.

- Incineration of chemical and biological weapons.

- Wide area leveling for landing zones or other operations. (Like a Vietnam-era U.S. 'Daisy Cutter' on steroids)

- Bunker destruction.

This device, and the similar (sized) American MOAB (but it's "conventional", not a fuel-air explosive), are so large, they can only be dropped by large slow lumbering cargo aircraft. So they can only really be deployed over a target that has complete air superiority and no risk of anti-aircraft fire.

So if you've got that much control of the area that you can take your time dropping one of these mega-bombs, why drop it? By the time you can safely drop the thing, there's no threats in the area greater than small-arms fire, and that's like using a sledgehammer on mosquitoes.

~~~~shockwave~~~~~~ pretty cool

Meh russians DO have stratofighters... radar dont go that high just fly over drop it... by the time it lands the plane is well gone to hell with stealth they go so high radar cealing is like 50k feet it flies 67k feet ( bomb from plane to land would be like 10-20 mins

@a-j they use it because they dont have big balls but have " my bomb is bigger than yours" (bush AND putin)

and yeah thats damn strong still dont beat the looming fireball of a hexane-octane fuel air bomb

on that note

me + 9 other "boomers" (homemade explosives enthusiasts)=

baloon 2m diameter + propane-hexane-hydrogen 3-5-10 ratio and a cellulosenitride (powdered gun cotton) co2 caniter bomb as pre gas "bloomer" with 4 normal baloons of pure oxygen inside the big baloon (got through electolosis)

let it rip at my our "expreiment" area ( a old "airodrome") 2sqMile of wasteland it caused a shockwave that i felt 40m away in my safe area ( 1m thick conctete wall side of demolished hanger) and shredded a wooden target i had 10m away caused a fireball 5-7m wide and threw my dumb mate 3 meters off his feet from like 30m away ( he lit the fuse and ran)
now i know what this means \/
F.A.B scott (thunderbirds for you uncultured folks) = Fuel Air Bomb the fu**ers scott

RADAR only to 50,000 feet???!!!?!?!? I didn't think it was so limited.

AJ_Dual said:

This device, and the similar (sized) American MOAB (but it's "conventional", not a fuel-air explosive), are so large, they can only be dropped by large slow lumbering cargo aircraft. So they can only really be deployed over a target that has complete air superiority and no risk of anti-aircraft fire.

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Only by a cargo aircraft?!?!

I don't know how big one of those bombs are, but have you ever seen how big a B52 bomb bay is? I climbed inside one before, they are huge. The B52 can fly above radar, and with all the flares and "other" equipment they have, I'm pretty sure they would have no problem dropping one of those things over enemy territories.

Also, have you ever got to go in the cockpit of a B52? What about flown in the "real" B52 training simulator that the US AirForce uses? :

i want one for christmas mommy! ;D

I don't think that radar is limited to a particular height - commercial radar maybe so. Military radar has the power to go much higher. If it can sweep 50 miles horizontally from your local weather station it can definitely go 50 miles straight up.

How did Gary Powers U2 get shot down over Russia when he was over 50,000 feet?? Almost certainly a radar guided SAM. Also, many B52's were lost in Vietnam due to radar guided SAM's (read about the Linebacker 2 offensive)

The limiting factor is the range of the missile, not the radar

stevetexas said:

I don't think that radar is limited to a particular height - commercial radar maybe so. Military radar has the power to go much higher. If it can sweep 50 miles horizontally from your local weather station it can definitely go 50 miles straight up.

How did Gary Powers U2 get shot down over Russia when he was over 50,000 feet?? Almost certainly a radar guided SAM. Also, many B52's were lost in Vietnam due to radar guided SAM's (read about the Linebacker 2 offensive)

The limiting factor is the range of the missile, not the radar

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Radar guided missiles have a radar built into them, so, you just have to fire them in the direction of a plane, and they will be guided to the target by an on board radar. They are much the same as heat seekers, but since they are guided by radio waves instead of heat, a flair doesn't "trick" them.

Very true, but a "Chaff" burst might. That releases thousands of strands of aluminium foil to produce a false radar signature that MIGHT just fool the missile. But modern AAM's are very clever now and recognise the signature of a chaff burst, so your best bet would be to EJECT. ;D ;D

Jase

OR eject WITH the bomb that would be a damn good way to die ( cowboy rides worlds biggest bomb from 60,000) i wanna die that way XP