Russia's TOS-1A thermobaric rocket launchers at a defence exhibition in Moscow last year Russia has used thermobaric weapons - also known as vacuum bombs - in Ukraine, says the UK's Ministry of ...

Thermobaric weapons are those that "inflict damage by maximizing the shock wave and overpressure associated with an explosion" and the pressure produced from using these weapons often causes ...

Despite the Geneva Convention prohibiting the use of thermobaric weapons against civilian targets, the Russians impose little regard for this restriction, deploying these weapons in the most ...

Russia’s TOS-1A “vacuum bomb” is so deadly that analysts advised Ukraine to destroy the weapons before Russia could use them. WSJ explains how its unique explosion can suck the air out of ...

The news comes as controversy grows over some of the weapons Moscow has used during the conflict in Ukraine, including the thermobaric bomb, which produces a blast that is "second only to a ...