Russia may be using thermobaric vacuum bombs in a “bunker-busting” role to destroy Ukrainian defensive positions – but the oxygen-fueled devices can also inflict a brutal death on casualties ...

Thermobaric weapons are generally deployed as rockets or bombs, and they work by releasing fuel and explosive charges. Different fuels can be used, including toxic powdered metals and organic ...

Ukrainian soldiers have demonstrated the use of the Vampire drone, which helps deliver supplies to them on the front line, ...

The volumetric weapons include thermobaric and fuel-air explosives (FAE, aerosol bombs in German).” It’s important to distinguish how thermobaric bombs work compared to others. Most ...

There has been no official, independent confirmation that thermobaric weapons have been used by Russia against Ukraine, but CNN reported one of its teams saw a Russian thermobaric rocket launcher ...

That includes cluster munitions and vacuum bombs — the use of which directed against civilians is banned under the Geneva Convention,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas ...

Thermobaric munitions can be traced back to World War Two, when they were initially used by the German army. They were not widely developed until the 1960s, when the US used them in Vietnam.

In March, the UK’s defence ministry said that Russia used thermobaric bombs in Ukraine. At the time, Russia mobilised 30 rockets armed with thermobaric warheads in eastern Ukraine.

The thermobaric munitions depot is located less than 10 kilometers [6.2 miles] from the front line, according to Euromaidan Press, an English-language news website operated by contributors from ...

In inserting itself into Israel’s war against Iran, Washington unleashed its massive 'bunker-buster' bombs on Iran’s Fordo ...

Thermobaric weapons essentially differ from conventional weapons by the very principle of action: they explode like a small nuclear bomb – only without emitting radioactive particles. Follow our ...