Writing about problems of thermobaric explosives

Kimmo Huosionmaa

There is one good question in the modern strategic field. That question is "why the USA doesn't create thermobaric explosives like Russian army"? Somebody thinks that the USA wants to be humanitarian and makes only the direct pointed weapons, like magnetic warheads, where small dynamo makes an electric field, what melts the ammunition core.

Those kind of weapons are actually very new, and there is no need for internal explosives, only the powerful dynamo in the ammunition is enough to melt that projectile as a liquid metal. That kind of ammunition is very dangerous for airlines because there are no explosives, what can notice that weapon.

But why the USA doesn't get the most powerful explosives on the earth? The problem of thermobaric explosives is that weapon is loaded with fuel, what is very low-temperature vaporizing material like propane or acetone. Thermobaric explosive works like that way, that there is a small explosive inside the bomb, what makes the cloud of those chemicals. After that, the ignition explosive will explode that chemical cloud with extreme huge power. That pressure effect-weapon is very powerful, and it is used in some nuclear simulations after nuclear test ban treaty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lyvoNGWGFU

And that thing causes problems with those weapons because if the ammunition core will be warm, that fuel will vaporizing, what makes the rise of pressure. That might cause the danger, for the user of those weapons. Another major problem with thermobaric explosives is a leak of those chemicals, what cause explosions or the situation, where those weapons will leak empty. That is a very bad scenario, especially for the man-portable thermobaric weapons, like rifle grenades and bazookas, what are equipped with thermobaric warheads.

And of course, new radiological weapons like the microwave and crossed radio masers, what causes arc flame inside the building can make those weapons to explode. Many of chemicals that are used in thermobaric warheads are not poisonous, but they might cause risk of explosion in the warehouse. And if that explosive material leaks away from the warhead, it will cause the situation, where those warheads are useless against the enemy.

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