In the 1995 film Outbreak, a thermobaric weapon (referred to as a fuel air bomb) is used to destroy an African village to keep the perfect biological weapon (a virus) a secret, and later nearly used to wipe out a US town to keep the original virus intact.

Nov 6, 2023 · Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian movement, Hamas, introduced a new weapon, in a video released Monday. The Yassin anti-fortification missile TBG is designed to target special Israeli forces fortifying inside buildings in …

Jan 30, 2024 · In recent months, throughout the war, the IDF was exposed to a new and unknown weapon deployed by Hamas, known as the TBG. An analysis of the operational evolution of the TBG reveals that Hamas meant to utilize it as a surprise weapon on the day of the raid into Israel and that its existence had previously been kept very secret.

The Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program is a joint DARPA/U.S. Air Force (USAF) effort that aims to develop and demonstrate technologies to enable future air-launched, tactical-range hypersonic boost glide systems. In a boost glide system, a rocket accelerates its payload to high speeds.

Mar 6, 2019 · Raytheon Company has received a contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to further develop the tactical boost-glide (TBG) hypersonic weapons programme. A rendering illustrates what a hypersonic missile could look like as it travels along the edge of Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: PRNewsforto / Raytheon Company.

Jan 5, 2021 · Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., announced a $4 million contract to BAE Systems last month to develop two weapon data link prototypes for...

DARPA has secretly tested a hypersonic Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) system as a risk-reduction effort for the U.S. Air Force’s separate, Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) program, the ...

Jun 28, 2024 · Thermobaric weapons, sometimes also referred to as ‘enhanced blast weapons’ or ‘vacuum bombs’, and their common subset fuel-air explosives (FAE), have been used in various conventional weapons used by militaries and even improvised explosive devices (IEDs) used by non-state actors.

Feb 6, 2024 · The two analysts who wrote the report, Yair Ansbacher and Yishay Armoni, say that in recent months, throughout the war, the IDF was exposed to a new and unknown weapon deployed by Hamas, known as the TBG. “The TBG was supplied to Hamas directly from Iran and has a Persian inscription on it.”

Aug 10, 2022 · The Air Force is pursuing the TBG and HAWC programs jointly with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Speaking with reporters at the Life Cycle Industry Days conference in Dayton, Ohio, Richardson said the technologies in the AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) and Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) “are mature ...