RUSSIA'S army deployed its most DEADLY weapon yet in the fight to wipe Islamic State (ISIS) from the face of the Earth..........The mobile killing machine features thermobaric weapons that are capable of destroying as many as eight tower blocks in one strike.......................Thermobaric warheads, which shoot flammable liquid around a target before igniting the air, are thought to have arrived in Syria last month..........Blazing Sun can fire up to 30 missiles in one go and is also equipped with a flamethrower that shoots a jet of fire metres into the air.
One journalist who has witnessed the use of the Blazing Sun missile launcher said: "The results are devastating. Not only is the explosion significantly longer and the shockwave significantly hotter and stronger than a conventional warhead, but all the oxygen in the near vicinity is also consumed, creating a partial vacuum."
A report by the CIA described the effect of a thermobaric weapon on targets in confined spaces, such as buildings, bunkers and tunnels, as "immense"..................................It said:..... "Those near the ignition point are obliterated. Those at the fringe are likely to suffer many internal, and thus invisible injuries, including burst eardrums and crushed inner ear organs, severe concussions, ruptured lungs and internal organs, and possibly blindness."
