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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

Mar 30, 2024 16:04 225

Russian aviation hit a village in Ukraine with a powerful Soviet-era aerial bomb - 1

"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".