By Georgina Littlejohn – inews.co.uk Feb 26, 2022
After a night of fighting in Kyiv, Ukrainian troops have so far managed to repel Russian troops from seizing the capital.
But Western officials have warned that if the Ukrainian military resistance continues to hold up the Russian assault, President Putin could resort to using thermobaric weapons.
But what is a thermobaric weapon and how dangerous is it?
What is a thermobaric weapon?
Dubbed the ‘father of all bombs’, a thermobaric weapon works by using oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion, making it far deadlier than a conventional weapon.
The so-called ‘vacuum bombs’ are capable of vapourising human bodies, crushing internal organs and reducing cities to rubble causing huge loss of life.
Who developed them?
Both the United States and the Soviet Union developed thermobaric weapons in the 1960s.
In September 2007, the largest thermobaric weapon ever made was detonated by Russia and created an explosion equivalent to 39.9 tons.
The US version reportedly costs over £11 million ($16 million) each.
In 2017, the US dropped one which weighed 21,600 pounds on the Taliban in Afghanistan. It left a crater more than 300 metres wide after it exploded six feet above the ground.
Is the West concerned Russia will resort to using them?
Western allies fear Russia could use thermobaric weapons against Ukrainian forces if they continue to hold up their advance.
They believe because Russian forces missed most of their day one objectives of the invasion, they could resort to indiscriminate firing to make up ground.
One official said this could include thermobaric weapons which Russia is known to have in its armoury and has used in past conflicts.
The Tos-1 Buratino weapons are understood to have crossed into Ukraine, although they have yet to be used.
Moscow has previously employed them in Chechnya and Syria.
“My fear would be that if they don’t meet their timescale and objectives they would be indiscriminate in their use of violence,” the official said.
“They don’t adhere to the same principles of necessity and proportionality and rule of law that Western forces do.”
This is an area weapon designed to neutralise enemy positions. It would not be used in an urban area still occupied by civilians. Regular artillery fire would be a better choice if that were intended.
YES, against Nato members in a big war. But in this small intervention, i guess not.
Isn’t this the kind of weapon which was actually used on the twin towers 911?
I’ve never heard of “inews.co.uk”, but judging by this:
“They don’t adhere to the same principles of necessity and proportionality and rule of law that Western forces do.”
It’s jews.
Remember, the yarmulke Chabad Lubavitch agents will use anything to kill off more white gentiles..
The same rules as western militaries follow? Is this reporter serious? Is this a comedy article? Like the Eisenhower camps? Agent orange? Guatanimo Bay? U.s.s Liberty attack by Isr. Using ordinance with depleted uranium in cities…or anywhere for that matter. How bout the Gulf of Tonkin, Lusitania, 9/11 or the non existent babies being pulled out of incubaters and put on the cold floor, Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman or Seal team six murders? Those rules. I love my country but John Lennon was right when he said the world is run by phsycopaths. And unfortunately, that includes the west as well.
The same rules as western militaries follow? Is this reporter serious? Is this a comedy article? Like the Eisenhower camps? Agent orange? Guatanimo Bay? U.s.s Liberty attack by Isr. Using ordinance with depleted uranium in cities…or anywhere for that matter. How bout the Gulf of Tonkin, Lusitania, 9/11 or the non existent babies being pulled out of incubaters and put on the cold floor, Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman or Seal team six murders? Those rules. I love my country but John Lennon was right when he said the world is run by phsycopaths. And unfortunately, that includes the west as well.
> Isn’t this the kind of weapon which was actually used on the twin towers 911?
No weapon was used there. It was explosives. Controlled demolition.
@ more jew-k news (and john)
full agreement, this is a jew source or tethered to jew.
why would putin use such a bomb …
• against what are basically his own people (over 80% people speak russian as primary language) …
• to gain what? eternal condemnation, when he has situation totally in hand, a slow squeeze on all the encircled population and industrial centers that will bring them into his orbit within weeks at most with no casualties.
just more anti-putin, anti-russia, anti-white, anti-christian bullshit from the yiddish reptilians.
Here is a priceless one (thanks to Mark Glenn at
http://theuglytruth.xyz/judea-speaks-christians-wake-up-if-the-world-doesnt-stop-putin-then-nato-and-israel-are-next/
the original jpost article here)
https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-698214
So tell us how it is all some gay psy ops, Brandon Smith, I for one am too stupid to get it, you need to take me through nice and slow, don’t skip any steps.
@WES
and mininukes in suterrane already
installed before constructions .
read Dimitry Kalezow + Bollyn
I have no fear of Putin, I have fear of the sh^t-circus known as the Western World getting its way, destroying Russia and creating a 2nd Israel in the Khazar’s Homeland.
It all hinges on China – Have they bought him yet? And has he realized that he is next? Does china care more about the selling of cheap crap to the western world or will it finally stand up to greater Judea?
In the end, none of the fake “nazis” of the tribe are worth one cell of the native russian speaking citizens they murdered,
The worst thing is to be born into a religion and stick with it until you die without ever using your mind to consider other knowledge and see what works for you. The same thing applies to the country in which you live. Mine is America… and it has fought on the side of evil since 1913…. truly it is an empire of lies.