The Chinese "mother of all bombs" may resemble the American high-explosive aviation munition GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB). This is told by the publication The Drive, which drew attention to the picture posted on Twitter.
The caption to the photo notes that the little-known large munition is designed to be dropped from the Chinese H-6K bomber. The American edition writes that initially the video with the bomb dropped from the plane was posted on the Weibo social network by the Air Force (Air Force) of the People's Republic of China.
The Drive claims that the existence of a new bomb became known in 2019 from a commercial of the Chinese defense concern NORINCO — at the same time, the Global Times newspaper called it the most powerful Chinese non-nuclear bomb, but after a while it deleted its publication with this statement.
The publication, with reference to publications that appeared at that time, notes that in the case of the Chinese "mother of all bombs", we can talk about thermobaric ammunition, which in its physico-chemical properties resembles 220-millimeter rockets of the Russian heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A and the American GBU-43/B MOAB. The authors of the material are confident that the Chinese ammunition is capable of destroying protected fortifications, including underground ones.
The Drive admits that there is currently no detailed official information about this weapon in open sources.
In October 2021, in the publication of the American publication 19FortyFive, the almost ten-ton GBU-43/B MOAB heavy air blast munition, first used in 2003 in Afghanistan, was named the deadliest weapon of the US Air Force.
