Putin’s ‘Father Of All Bombs’ is FOUR TIMES more powerful than Trump’s 'Mother Of All Bombs' that killed 36 ISIS militants in Afghanistan

• Putin's Father Of All Bombs is packed with 44 tons of explosives to be detonated
• Mother Of All Bombs belonging to the US Air Force carries 11 tons of explosives
• Although US version is bigger in size and weight, the Russians' is more powerful
• Added to the four times more TNT, the FOAB's burning temperature is also higher

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Vladimir Putin has a weapon four times more powerful than the US' monster bomb that killed 36 ISIS militants in Afghanistan. 

The Mother Of All Bombs (MOAB), which belongs to the US Air Force, weighs a staggering 21,600lbs.

But the Russian version - called the Father Of All Bombs - weighs just 15,560lbs and is packed with the equivalent to 44 tons of explosive TNT.

This is four times more than the US' model which obliterates anything in its blast zone, which is twice that of the MOAB.

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It has been given the nickname the 'mother of all bombs', a play on MOAB which is an acronym standing for Massive Ordnance Air Burst.

Known officially as a GBU-43B, it unleashed 11 tons of explosives and vaporised everything within its 300m blast zone.

But Russia has an even more powerful weapon dubbed the father of all bombs. 

Putin's monster explosive is known officially as the Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power and is reportedly four times bigger than MOAB. 

It carries 44 tons of TNT and explodes in the same way as its American counterpart, obliterating anything within the blast zone, collapsing buildings and producing huge blasts and aftershocks. 

Although - like the MOAB - it is not nuclear, the aftermath of the bomb could be comparable to a nuke being deployed. 

It was test-fired by the Russians in 2007 where the temperature produced by the blast was also twice as high than that in the MOAB.

Previously, the US bomb's blast zone had been predicted as 150m, but it left a 300m crater in the in Achin district of Nangarhar province when it was dropped at 7.32pm local time Thursday on a tunnel complex, killing 36 ISIS militants. 

The Russian FOAB's blast zone has been predicted as twice that of the US bomb and even though it is smaller in size, because of the temperature it explodes at and the fact there are four times more explosives crammed inside, it is much more powerful.

Although the figures relating to the FOAB have been widely circulated by the Russians, there are no public pictures of it, which has led US defense analysts to question the claims of its power and size. 

However, if true, the device would be the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the world.  

It was successfully field-tested in the late evening of September 11, 2007, and the new weapon was aimed to replace several smaller types of nuclear bombs in its arsenal. 

How is smaller Russian weapon so much more powerful than the US'?

The thermobaric device yields the equivalent of 44 tons of TNT using about seven tons of a new type of high explosive. 

Because of this, the bomb's blast and pressure wave have a similar effect to a small tactical nuclear weapon, although on a smaller scale.

The bomb works by detonating in mid-air. 

Most damage is inflicted by a supersonic shockwave and extremely high temperatures.

Thermobaric weapons differ from conventional explosive weapons in that they generate a longer, more sustained blast wave with greater temperatures.

In doing so, they produce more damage over a larger area than a conventional weapon of similar mass.

According to General Alexander Rushkin, the Russian deputy chief of staff, the new bomb is smaller than the MOAB but much deadlier because the temperature at the centre of the blast is twice as high.