It will change previously existing perceptions completely.
again the era of showing real toughness is started

No surprise to some of us. I’m surprised the few Usual Suspects who realize it’s an FAE device don’t revive the “thermobaric weapon” phrase and wonder if this won’t also be used in Grozny. (How to solve the problem of urban warfare? Remove the urban character.) Come to think of it, maybe if it makes the terrorists in Chechnya nervous along with the activists, that’s a good thing, heh, heh.

> Environmentally friendly?

Think “Green Plowshare” as well as “Grozny.”

“You will now see it in action, the bomb which has no match in the world is being tested at a military site,” the report said.

And it even actually explodes sometimes, proving the superiority of Russian technology! It’s just another FAE device, if a big one. So big they have to use their biggest bomber to carry it, and it can only carry two of them, max, if my memory of the Blackjack’s capacity is accurate. Russia has only a dozen or so Blackjacks in operational condition.

Comparable to nuclear? Not even close. Claimed yield is 40 TNT-ton equivalents–but that’s just a claim, and likely exaggerated. By comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 13,000 TNT-ton equivalents, over 300 times the claimed yield of the new FAE.

Environmentally friendly? How environmentally friendly is ANY bomb inside the blast radius?

To: All Russian people
From: Head Fish Kisser
Close on heels of huge success of our one-way submersible submarine glorious Kursk, we are proud to announce our newest super-weapon. Unmatchable super vacuum bomb will strike fear into hearts of …

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