Dad of all bombs - Russia's answer to the U.S. MOAB

[bumpweLL.nYc 10+ year member]

Ivan was equivalent to 50 MILLION tons, and was originally designed to be 100 megatons.
This non-nuclear shit is nice and all, but rather drab.

hell yeah Tsar Bomb .. now thats a mans bomb

 

[bumpweLL.nYc 10+ year member]

this is impressive...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_rHrV2QhArA

talk about impressive

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

That's sweet.

nG

 

[w00tah 10+ year member]

There's a problem in the thinking about that Tzar bomb:

It was only able (and probably still) only capable of being carried by the TU-36 Bear, which is so slow I could shoot it down with a fart after a 12 pack and some White Castle.

Morgan

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

Still... crazzyyy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

The original U.S. estimate of the yield was 57 Mt, but since 1991 all Russian sources have stated its yield as 50 Mt. Nonetheless, Khrushchev warned in a filmed speech to the Communist parliament of the existence of a 100 Mt bomb (technically the design was capable of this yield). The fireball touched the ground, reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and was seen and felt 1,000 km away. The heat from the explosion could have caused third degree burns 100 km away from ground zero. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 60 km high (nearly seven times higher than Mount Everest) and 30–40 km wide. The explosion could be seen and felt in Finland, even breaking windows there [4]. Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 km away. The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the Earth. Its Richter magnitude was about 5 to 5.25[4]
Since 50 Mt is 2.1×1017 joules, the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 39 nanoseconds [citation needed], was a power of about 5.4×1024 watts or 5.4 yottawatts. This is equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun. The detonation of Tsar Bomba therefore qualifies as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Damn son

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

edit ^^^^

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

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[pilyin 10+ year member]

Quick note. It actually uses LESS TNT than the MOAB, however the blast is 4 times larger because of the way it is built. (7.8 tons compared to the more than 8 the MOAB's uses).

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, anyone that read the article knows that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Comparing weaponsThe U.S. Massive Ordnance Air Blast, nicknamed the Mother Of All Bombs, is a large-yield satellite-guided, air-delivered bomb described as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in history.Channel One said that while the Russian bomb contains 7.8 tons of high explosives compared to more than 8 tons of explosives in the U.S. bomb, it’s four times more powerful because it uses a new, highly efficient type of explosives that the report didn’t identify.

While the U.S. bomb is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT, the Russian one is equivalent to 44 tons of regular explosives. The Russian weapon’s blast radius is 990 feet, twice as big as that of the U.S. design, the report said.