The video claimed that this was Russia's first use of the ODAB-9000, the most powerful thermobaric ... GBU-43/B MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast). “While GBU-43/B is a high-explosive aerial ...

The article also compares the FAB-9000 to the U.S. military's GBU-43/B MOAB ("Mother of All Bombs"), which carries ...

This is four times more than the US' model which obliterates anything in its blast zone, which is twice that of the MOAB. Putin's monster explosive is known officially as the Aviation Thermobaric ...

Thermobaric weapons are controversial because ... In 2003, the US tested a 9,800kg bomb, nicknamed the "Mother of all bombs". Four years later, Russia developed a similar device, the Father ...