Because existing bombs aren’t effective enough at blowing things up and killing people…
The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world’s most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, Russia’s state television reported Tuesday.
It was the latest show of Russia’s military muscle amid chilly relations with the United States.
Channel One television said the new weapon, nicknamed the “dad of all bombs” is four times more powerful than the U.S. “mother of all bombs.”
“The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordnance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency and capability,” said Col.-Gen. Alexander Rukshin, a deputy chief of the Russian military’s General Staff, said in televised remarks.
Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn’t hurt the environment, he added. [source]
Our friend Al Gore would be proud of the Russians for building a bomb that doesn’t hurt the environment. Just looking at the photo I can see how that giant fireball wouldn’t hurt the environment.
I suppose they mean that unlike a nuke, it doesn’t leave the area a radioactive wasteland for years. So they can blow up your village and once all the debris falls back to earth they can move in and start planting trees.
I wonder how long before they start selling these to Iran.
