Russia demonstrates a Russian version of the MOAB, a Fuel Air Explosive equivalent to 44 tons of TNT. A Fuel-Air Explosives [FAE] disperse an aerosol cloud of fuel which is ignited by an embedded detonator to produce an explosion. The main destructive force of FAE is high overpressure, useful against soft targets such as minefields, armored vehicles, aircraft parked in the open, and bunkers. Thermobaric weapons were used by the Russians in Chechnya
