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Russian aviation hit a village in Ukraine with a powerful Soviet-era aerial bomb

The bulk detonating aerial bomb is a Soviet-era thermobaric projectile that releases an incendiary liquid in the form of an aerosol about 10 meters before hitting the target and igniting it

"The Russian armed forces attacked the village of Velika Pisarevka in the Sumy region with a heavy ODAB-1500 aerial bomb. The military analyst of the German newspaper BILD, Julian Röpke, states that after the impact of the ODAB-1500, a cloud of smoke with a height of 1 km rose into the sky.

The volume detonating aerial bomb (UDAB) is a Soviet-era thermobaric projectile that releases an incendiary liquid in the form of an aerosol about 10 meters before striking the target and igniting it. This is called a volume explosion. Such ammunition has a greater striking power than the classic ammunition.

Previously, the Russian armed forces used ODAB, but with a smaller mass: from 170 to 500 kg. Röpke calls the use of a 1.5-ton bomb in the village "a new bottom in Russia's war against Ukrainian cities".