India, China, Pak's non-nuclear bombs no match for US, Russian monster weapons

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Screengrab of a US Air Force video shows a mushroom cloud created by a GBU-43 / B prototype moments after impact test at Eglin Air Force Base, in Florida. (AFP File Photo)

By Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Less than three months after Donald Trump took over as president, an MC-130 aircraft operated by the United States Air Force Special Operations Command recorded one of the largest conventional bombs in the country's arsenal in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday.

Deployed by the US military for the first time in combat, the GBU-43 Massive ordnance Air Blast bomb (Moab) is one of the most powerful non-nuclear weapons in the possession of any military in the world. The 21,000-lb Moab phenomenon of nuclear power have earned it the nickname 'Mother of All Bombs'.

Neither India or Pakistan or even China takes non-nuclear bombs that are in the league of Moab, developed in the early 2000 .. In fact, they stockpile does not come anywhere close to Moab-like munitions.

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The rare strike against the Islamic State fighters with a weapon this has turned the spotlight on the world's biggest and contemporary non-nuclear bombs, primarily held only by the militaries of Russia and the US.

Here's a quick look at some of these drugs air-monster munitions of efficiency and power almost match nuclear weapons, and the smaller bombs of the air forces of India, China and Pakistan to improve their inventories:

Aviation Thermobaric bomb Increased Power: Also known as the 'Father of All Bombs' (FOAB), it is the Russian answer to the American bombing. Moscow successfully tested the weapons in 2007; Four years after the US in the development of Moab. It is reportedly the world's most powerful non-nuclear bomb, capable of unleashing 44 tons of explosives compared to 11 tons in the GBU-43 Moab. 15,650 lb, the FOAB lighter than the American bombing but the former's stir significantly higher yield makes it far more lethal.