"Military and Martial Plane" Author: Railing Link's Guide
On October 10, many places in Ukraine were attacked by Russian large-scale missiles . There were many explosions in the center of the capital Kiev, one of which landed on the street near the office of Ukrainian President .
In addition to Kiev , other major cities in Ukraine, especially the central and western cities, were also attacked by cruise missile , including Kharkov , Odessa , Dnipro, Lviv .
Subsequently, Russian President Putin delivered a speech at the federal security meeting on the 10th, confirming that the Russian army used land-based, air-based and sea-based missiles to carry out long-range missile strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure.
Ukraine claimed that the air strike affected the critical infrastructure of eight Ukrainian states and Kiev city, causing more than 30 fires. As of 14:00 that day, the air strikes killed 11 people and injured 64 people.
Zelensky also posted on social media and accompanied a video of Kiev attacks, condemning Russia for "trying to destroy us and erase us from the earth."
So does Russia have this ability?
What weapons did Russia use this time?
According to Ukrainian Air Force Command spokesman Yuri Ignath, Russia has fired 83 missiles into Ukraine at 11:40 a.m. on October 10. It mainly includes:
Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles launched on 11 Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers in the Caspian Sea area, as well as the "caliber" cruise missiles launched from the Russian naval warships of Black Sea , as well as the "Iskander" tactical missiles launched from different directions on land, the S-300 air defense missile system and the "Tornado"-S multi-barrel rocket system missiles.
These land-based, sea-based and air-based missiles are mainly used for point-to-point precise strikes, and their power is actually very average.
Take expensive strategic cruise missiles such as Kh-101 and Kh-555 for example. Although their range can reach several thousand kilometers and the probability error of the end circle is about 50-100 meters, its warhead weighs only four or five hundred kilograms. It should have been installed with nuclear warhead , hung on strategic bomber , and used it to deal with the United States in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
"caliber" cruise missile is a multi-purpose cruise missile with a range of 1500 to 2500 kilometers and a warhead weighs 450 kilograms. It can carry conventional warheads or nuclear warheads. Its power is similar to Kh-101 and Kh-555, but its range is closer.
"Iskander" tactical missile has a range of 50-500 kilometers. Due to the different weight of the warhead, its launch weight is between 3.8-4 tons. It can carry a nuclear warhead, or a cluster sub-compartment bullet weighing 480-700 dry grams (loading 54 bullets), high-explosive bomb , penetrate sub-compartment , ground-boring bullet, air incendiary bomb and electromagnetic pulse bomb, etc. The weight of the warhead is similar to the above two types.
▲"Iskander" tactical missile
. The S-300 missile against the ground has a fragmented kill-destruction warhead of only 150 kilograms. When conducting ground strikes, its maximum range can reach 120 kilometers, which is equivalent to a 300mm tornado rocket. Its overall combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the Dot-U ballistic missile.
As for the 300mm caliber "Tornado"-S multi-bar rocket launcher, it can fire 9M544 and 9M549 guided rockets with 250 kg of warhead weight, or it can fire 9M55K rockets with 72 high-explosive disc killer ammunition, 9M55F rockets with 92.5 kg of high-explosive explosives, and 9M55K1 type anti-armored child rockets.
▲9M544 rocket
If cluster-type fragment kill/anti-armor sub-munition rocket is used, a tornado-S rocket launcher can launch a full 12 rounds at a time, covering an area of 670,000 square meters, which is about the area of 100 football fields.
And a car crew can be fired 4 times. Although the accuracy and range are not as good as missiles such as "Iskander" and "caliber", the price is there, so it is still very delicious.
Like on September 21, Russia used the "tornado"-S to hit the Kharkiv railway station, using the guided rocket 9M544/9M549, which made the Kharkiv railway station mess.
But it should be noted that this is just a mess, not a slag. This cluster ammunition mainly relies on fragments or steel balls and needles to kill people or equipment, and is still far from the standard of "wiping XX from the earth".
If Russia really wants to erase Ukraine from the earth with conventional weapon , it may have to be a real heavy weapon - "the father of bombs ". What does the ceiling of a regular bomb look like?
Before talking about Russia's "father of bombs", it is necessary to talk about the United States' "mother of bombs ". The name of
is actually a pure coincidence. Its full name is "Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bombs", which is the same as the abbreviation MOAB of Mother Of All Bombs.
, a large fuel air bomb, was first used by the United States in Vietnam War . At that time, the US military successfully developed the BLU-82/B "Daisy Cutter". It was about 3.4 meters long, about 1.7 meters in diameter, and weighed about 6.8 tons. It could only be deployed using transport aircraft and large helicopters. It was the most destructive conventional weapon except nuclear weapon at that time.
When BLU-82/B is thrown out, it will explode for the first time 30 meters away from the ground, forming a mist-like cloud falling to the ground, detonating again several meters close to the surface. The explosion occurs produces a powerful shock wave, and everything within a diameter of 80 meters becomes vanished and burns into ashes. It can destroy enemy equipment within a radius of 100 to 270 meters, kill enemy personnel within a radius of 600 meters, and the shock wave generated by the explosion can be felt several kilometers away.
Its main purpose is to quickly open helicopter landing grounds or artillery positions in the continuous jungles in Vietnam and Laos. It is affectionately called "earthquake bomb" by the Vietnamese guerrillas.
In the later Gulf War and Afghanistan War, BLU-82/B was tried and tested in the hands of the US military, but unfortunately the inventory was not enough, so the US military developed GBU-43/B, which is the "mother of bombs".
GBU-43/B weighs 9.8 tons and contains 8.5 tons of H-6 special mixed explosives. The explosion power is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT explosives. The radius of shock wave that can damage solid fortifications is 137.61 meters, the overpressure radius of damaged buildings is 1 kilometer, and the overpressure radius of killing unprotected personnel is 2.7 kilometers, which makes GBU-43/B the most powerful conventional bomb in service in the US military.
From the perspective of power, GBU-43/B can directly act on the surrounding area within a radius of 1.6 kilometers and consume 2/3 of the concentration of oxygen , and the energy released is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT explosives.
In April 2017, the US military dropped a head of Taliban on Afghanistan , directly lit up a small mushroom cloud , killing at least 36 IS militants, and destroying three hiding sites, a command center, multiple covert trenches, a series of underground tunnels and a large number of weapons and ammunition, directly breaking the record of the participation of the maximum destructive ammunition in the actual combat except for nuclear bomb .
was stimulated by GBU-43/B. In 2007, Russia launched a new type of bomb - called ATBIP (airdrop power-enhanced high-temperature bomb). In order to challenge the United States, Russia gave it the nickname "Father of Bombs".
At present, there is very little public information about ATBIP. According to limited reports, the weight of ATBIP is 7.1 tons, which is actually much lighter than GBU-43/B.
However, since its charge components are mainly high-energy explosives, metal powder and ethylene oxide, it adopts a secondary detonation mode, which is to first throw the bomb body into the air through the first-level detonation, and then let it explode a second time.
During the explosion process, ATBIP will sprinkle a mixture of ethylene oxide and metal powder, so that it is fully mixed with oxygen and then detonate. After ethylene oxide encounters heat, it expands sharply, burns and explodes, producing a large amount of heat and high-pressure impact.
Its extremely high temperature exceeding 5000℃ can directly vaporize creatures within the explosion range, and the buildings will become ruins. The huge "mushroom cloud" and shock waves generated have powerful destructive capabilities for confined spaces such as tanks, caves, bunkers and bunkers.
Its explosion power is said to be up to 44 tons TNT equivalent , 4 times that of GBU-43/B, the shock wave radius is 300 meters, twice that of GBU-43/B, and the high temperature generated during explosion is close to 5,000 degrees Celsius, which is twice that of GBU-43/B.
▲ From the above comparison, we can see that the typical Russian style of "Father of Bombs" is not accurate enough, so we can make up for it.
On September 11, 2007, the Russian military conducted the first throwing test of the "Father of Bombs" with the Tu-160 strategic bomber. After the explosion, a terrifying "large" mushroom cloud and shocking shock waves to buildings with amazing lethality, with extremely terrifying effects.
▲On September 11, 2007, the first throwing test of the "Father of Bombs".
On September 7, 2017, the "Father of Bombs" conducted its first actual combat use. At that time, the Russian army sent a shot at ISIS in Deir Zur, Syria, and directly sent away several senior leaders of ISIS and more than 40 militants, which made the psychological shadow on the surviving militants immeasurable.
Hell Fire
Although BLU-82/B and "Mother of Bombs" GBU-43/B are both classified as fuel air bombs, they are actually thermopressure bombs .
There are many people who are prone to mixing temperature-pressure bombs and fuel-air bombs (FAE), that is, cloud explosion bombs . In fact, although the two have similarities, the explosion mechanism is still different.
Like fuel air bombs have two explosions, the first explosion explodes and cracks the bomb body, throwing liquefied combustible gas into the air, ignites and detonates after full mixing, forming a second explosion. It is filled with fuel and must be mixed with air to explode. Although
temperature-pressure bombs are similar to fuel air bombs, they are gel clouds formed by fully fusing chemical agents with air, and then undergo a secondary explosion, thereby consuming all the surrounding air through oxygen combustion, which produces strong shock waves and also causes transient hypoxia to the explosion point range.
However, the temperature-pressure bomb does not use the oxygen in the air to explode. It is mixed with a large amount of aluminum, boron, silicon, magnesium and other metal powders into the charge. After the explosion, it will be dispersed into the surrounding air and ignited by the temperature of the bomb's explosion, thereby generating a larger-scale explosion, which greatly enhances the thermal effect of the temperature-pressure bomb and the pressure effect generated by the high explosion.
This can reduce the intensity peak of the shock wave generated during explosion and increase the duration. In other words, it can generate a more continuous overpressure and high temperature within the explosion effect range. It can be said that the temperature-pressure bomb is the evolved model of fuel air bombs.
There was a report on a thermopress bomb published in the United States in 1993, describing its unique killing mechanism for living targets.
After the temperature-pressure bomb explodes, a short vacuum will appear immediately after the high-explosion shock wave, which can cause the living back to explode. The temperature in the explosion center is very high, which can quickly melt the steel, basically close to the direct vaporization of the explosion center, and the distance is the rupture of the eardrum, severe concussion, internal organ rupture, etc.
Then there is the debris that are brought by the shock wave. The debris in open areas can even fly for several miles. Even if you hide in a low place to escape, you will still face hypoxia and suffocation. Therefore, the temperature-pressure bomb will be called a sub-nuclear weapon together with the cloud bomb.
And the "father of bombs" ATBIP is not a simple thermopressure bomb. It is a bomb that combines thermopressure and FAE principles. Its internal core is a thermopressure bomb, and a large amount of epoxy mixture is loaded on the outside.
The explosion process is that the core temperature pressure bomb explodes first. Taking advantage of the low temperature peak of the temperature pressure bomb and a long duration, a large amount of epoxy fuel is spread into the surrounding air. The aluminum powder of the central bomb ensures that its temperature peak lasts long enough, making the secondary detonation successful, which is quite original.
According to theoretical calculation, the explosion power generated by the mixture of air and epoxy fuel can reach a maximum of 5 times the TNT of the same weight. From this perspective, it is not outrageous to have an ATBIP explosion power of 44 tons.
According to Russia, the ATBIP damage diameter of 44 tons of TNT equivalent reaches 300 meters, and its fatal range can even reach 600 meters.
But it is a conventional weapon after all. The power of 44 tons of TNT equivalent is less than one-three percent compared to the power of Hiroshima's "Little Boy" 15,000 tons of TNT equivalent, let alone compared to the later hydrogen bomb with tens of millions of tons of TNT equivalent.
▲Comparison chart of the power of various nuclear bombs. From left to right are: Hiroshima "Little Boy" (15,000 tons), Nagasaki "Fat Man" (21,000 tons), French nuclear test (1 million tons), American "Bravo Castle" (15 million tons), and Soviet " Tsar Bomb " (50 million tons).
If you rely on this thing to smooth out Ukraine, we can simply calculate that the area of a circle with a diameter of 600 meters is 1.13 square kilometers, and what is the land area of Ukraine? 603,700 square kilometers, which means that it is necessary to bomb Ukraine all over, about 530,000 "father of bombs".
Of course, in fact, it does not need to blow up all places, but even if you bomb a major city like Kiev, the range of hundreds of square kilometers will consume hundreds of "fathers of bombs", which no country can afford.
As for the several conventional Russian missiles mentioned above, what is the actual power of their warheads with hundreds of kilograms?
Modern missile warheads generally use TNT, polymer plastic explosives PBX, Okto, or mixed explosives with TNT and TNT with different ratios of TNT and other explosives.
If these hundreds of kilograms of warhead and the shell are considered as the most powerful Okto, each kilogram of Okto can release 5673 kilojoules of energy, which is 1.3 times the equivalent of TNT, then a 500 kilogram of Okto is equivalent to a 650 kilogram of TNT.
If you want to intuitively understand this power, you can refer to the power of bomb .
▲ Syria Somewhere in the crater of a 1,000-pound bomb.
1,000 pounds of aircraft bombs are about 200 kilograms. After hitting the building directly, the building was destroyed. The bullet crater is about 10 meters and the 2,000 pound bomb is about 420 kilograms, and it can blow out a crater with a diameter of 15 meters and a depth of about 11 meters.
In other words, the power of a missile carrying a conventional warhead would be to kill one or two buildings. Russia only launched 1,000 missiles in the first 30 days of the war. Most of this was still in the inventory of the Soviet era. It was obviously a fantasy to let Russia rely on conventional missiles to cause damage.
The "East Wind Washing" that military fans often say is actually just an exaggeration, because if you really want to "wash the floor", you can only rely on nuclear warheads, and it is absolutely impossible to complete it with a conventional warhead.
▲"Dongfeng" is a big killer, but it is not used to install conventional bullets to "scrub the floor".
So, what Zelensky said was that Russia wanted to erase Ukraine from the earth, either to let Russia grow big mushrooms in Ukraine, or the "Ukraine" he said specifically refers to himself.
