Not long ago, the army of the Russian Federation adopted a vacuum bomb.According to experts, it is the most powerful non-nuclear munitions.This weapon has a striking high performance and does not pollute the area with radiation, and its price is relatively low.
operating principle of vacuum bomb is based on the volume of the explosion.With this phenomenon people face daily.The cylinder automobile engine fuel microbursts occur.On a larger scale, this phenomenon is observed in the explosions of methane or coal dust in mines.Flour slurry may explode or sawdust from the fact that the cloud material has a much greater area of contact with air, which acts oxidant.
this effect have been used by the military.On the technical side, vacuum bomb principle of operation is quite simple.After munition touches an obstacle, its body is destroyed by a special blasting charge.When sprayed into the air explosive that creates a large aerosol cloud.It penetrates into the fortified points, shelters and other places that are inaccessible to classical lesion ammunition.Then, from the manufactured housing charges are ignited slurry.As its combustion, a zone of low pressure (relative vacuum), which is rapidly absorbed everything around.Therefore, even without a powerful and destructive shock wave, which accompanies the explosion of a nuclear weapon, it creates a zone of very high pressure, which is a remarkable affecting factor.This is called a thermobaric warhead.
vacuum bomb on the force of 5-8 times more efficient than the classical explosives.In the US, such munitions were made on the basis of napalm.In places where these munitions were used, the soil becomes similar to the lunar surface, but there was no radioactive or chemical contamination.Vacuum bomb can be made on the basis of methane, ethylene oxide, propyl nitrate, propylene oxide and other substances.
Until recently, Russian traditional fillers used for thermobaric munitions.However, the agent for the new Russian bomb is a secret composition and created based on nanotechnology.This is the cause of his enormous power.
Vacuum bombs were used by the Americans during the Vietnam War to clear the terrain of the jungle.The explosion of the ammunition create excellent helicopter landing pad.Soon, however, the US military found that such bombs are very effective to combat leaking Vietnamese fortifications.
During the war in Lebanon, Israel has been tested on humans vacuum US ammunition.Residential building dropped about 8 floors, charge it completely destroyed (killed about 300 people).In 1999 vacuum bomb was used in Dagestan.In the village of Tando, where there were a large number of militants, it was dropped this ordnance.The village was wiped out, and several hundred bandits destroyed.
