PRO-RUSSIAN cronies have claimed Vladimir Putin has dropped the world’s strongest non-nuclear bomb on Ukraine.
Dubbed “The Father Of All Bombs”, scary footage is alleged to point out the second the devastating bomb erupts into a large fiery ball adopted by a mushroom cloud of smoke.
The video, shared by pro-Putin “Z-channels” on Russian Telegram websites, exhibits the already blitzed Vovchansk in Kharkiv area being focused by the lethal ODAB-9000 thermobaric or fuel-air explosive.
Regardless of the video it’s but to be confirmed by Ukraine or Russian officers if the bomb used was really the ODAB-9000.
Many specialists have rubbished the suggestion that Putin would drop such a strong weapon in his arsenal on the realm and not using a good cause.
Some imagine the bomb might as an alternative be the much less {powerful} ODAB-1500 thermobaric bomb.
Others have speculated that the huge explosion resembles the aftereffects of the fearsome FAB-3000 aerial bombs utilized by Vlad’s forces in opposition to Ukraine.
One other idea is that it was the even much less {powerful} FAB-1500 model, declare Fighterbomber channel on Telegram.
Sources say that within the unlikely circumstance that it was the ODAB-9000 that was dropped then it could require a specialist jet to transport it over Ukraine.
The explosive is so heavy that it must be deployed from a Russian strategic bomber such because the Tu-160, Tu-95 or Tu-22M3.
None of those jets have been recorded as being within the space in current days.
The plane would’ve needed to fly in so near the bottom that it could’ve been simply detected and probably shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
The ODAB-9000’s payload creates a blast that generates intense strain and warmth, which could be deadly even to people sheltered inside buildings or bunkers.
It’s designed to destroy enemy positions over a large space together with entrenched infantry and evenly fortified constructions.
The fuel-air explosion creates a protracted blast wave and a vacuum, which may collapse buildings and trigger inner accidents to these in its radius.
Ukrainian supply Colonel Vitaliy Sarantsev stated the declare might have been a Russian bid to demoralise Ukraine by “intimidating the native inhabitants and destabilising the area”.
Spokesman for the Kharkiv Regional Navy Command has additionally denied the ODAB-9000 declare.
Russian struggle analyst Sergei Karnaukhov and political analyst Yury Baranchik each commented on the studies saying they imagine them to be true.
Baranchik wrote on-line: “In Volchansk, the Russian military used the ODAB-1500 vacuum bomb for the primary time – in response to different sources, the ODAB-9000.
“The media calls this bomb one of the crucial {powerful} non-nuclear munitions on this planet – which is true.
“The estimated mass of the explosive is 7,100 kg. Though there may be little official information on this munition, the exterior results are apparent.”
A number of different Russian channels additionally revealed comparable studies.
Even esteemed Ukrainian media supply Anton Gerashchenko stated he was conscious of the worrying claims.
He stated: “Z-war correspondents report alleged use of a super-powerful bomb in Volchansk.
“Some army bloggers declare that that is the primary use of the ODAB-9000 vacuum bomb. Additionally it is referred to as the ‘Daddy of all bombs’.
“It’s the strongest non-nuclear munition on this planet.
The Air Power of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ilya Yevlash has beforehand stated the Russians have “an especially massive variety of them”.
“One such bomb is able to destroying a multi-story constructing.”
The explosive video comes only a few days earlier than the Russian tyrant’s momentous 72nd birthday on October 7.
Russian officers are stated to be all the time trying to present the dictator a lot of “presents” for his birthdays.
With one idea saying Putin is line to be handed a brand new bomb.
One other current his Kremlin friends are hoping to provide Putin is the army acquire of Vuhledar in Donetsk area.
Russian forces hope to grab the land away from the Ukrainians after months of livid combating.