The ‘father of all bombs’ is Russia’s answer to America’s powerful MOAB

Russia’s ‘father of all bombs’ is a thermobaric bomb with a destruction radius of nearly 300 metres and a blast yield of nearly 44 tonnes of TNT. File photo: Handout

The bomb, the Massive Ordinance Air Blast, nicknamed the “mother of all bombs” because of its acronym, is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal.

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