Thermobaric weapon
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A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive. This allows the che
Blast from a US Navy fuel–air explosive used against a decommissioned ship, USS McNulty, 1972
Experimental setup
Finely-ground flour is dispersed
Cloud of flour is ignited
RPO-A Shmel
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The RPO-A Shmel is a man-portable, single-use, rocket-assisted thermobaric weapon. While its name directly translates to flamethrower, the RPO-A Shmel is more accurately described as a thermobaric wea
Thermobaric weapon
…Since Afghanistan, research and development has continued, and Russian forces have fielded a wide array of third-generation FAE warheads, such as the RPO-A. The Russian armed forces have developed thermobaric ammunition variants for several of their weapons, such as the TBG-7V thermobaric grenade with a…
RPO-Shmel and Launcher
RPO PDM-A Shmel-M