Putin's monster explosive is known officially as ... But it remains unclear if weapons of this type, and even the thermobaric father of all bombs, were used during the Chechen war.

This has several thousand pre-formed fragments and 55 pounds/25 kilos of explosive. The latest, the fifth iteration is stamped with the designation TBBCh-50 and filled with thermobaric explosive.

Thanks to optical trickery, radar can’t distinguish a drone armed with a Shahed’s usual 50kg payload of explosives or with a thermobaric weapon – also known as a vacuum bomb – from those ...

Russian forces have started deploying deadly thermobaric drones alongside numerous decoy UAVs, which are not armed with explosives, in their large-scale drone attacks against Ukraine. Source ...

Russian propagandists claim the alleged first use of the new OFZAB-500 incendiary fragmentation aerial bomb near Kupiansk. However, this information is not entirely accurate, Defense Express reports.

Thermobaric bombs are another tool in Russia's arsenal. These bombs cause massive destruction due to their unique design. They create a high-temperature explosion that affects a wide area.

Russia recently began producing thermobaric drones to be used alongside decoy drones in Ukraine, which are capable of causing severe damage to civilians, an investigation by the Associated Press ...

Thermobaric munitions, also known as aerosol or vacuum bombs, work by explosively dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive which mixes with the surrounding air to create a ...

Engineers in Russia are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones that are designed to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect against a new deadly weapon, an Associated Press investigation .