FAB-5000 bomb
Sign in to saveThe FAB-5000NG (, where NG stands for its inventor, Nison Ilicz Gelperin) was a 5,000 kilogram (11,000 lb) large air-dropped, thin cased, high explosive demolition bomb used by the Soviet Air Forces during World War II. The device was the most powerful aerial bomb in the wartime Soviet inventory (until the FAB-9000 demolition bomb was developed during the Cold War as part of the M-46 series).
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- FAB-5000NG
- Weapon.image
- File:Fab-5000.svg
- Weapon.caption
- Sketch of a FAB-5000NG
- Weapon.origin
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.type
- General-purpose bomb
- Weapon.is_explosive
- yes
- Weapon.is_missile
- yes
- Weapon.service
- 28 April 1943 - 9 May 1945
- Weapon.used_by
- Soviet Air Force
- Weapon.wars
- World War II
- Weapon.designer
- Nison Illich Gelperin
- Weapon.filling
- TNT, RDX and aluminium powder
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- aerial bomb
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Mass
- +5400
- Image
- Fab-5000.svg
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- Development
- Operational use
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
The FAB-5000NG (, where NG stands for its inventor, Nison Ilicz Gelperin) was a 5,000 kilogram (11,000 lb) large air-dropped, thin cased, high explosive demolition bomb used by the Soviet Air Forces during World War II. The device was the most powerful aerial bomb in the wartime Soviet inventory (until the FAB-9000 demolition bomb was developed during the Cold War as part of the M-46 series).
==Development== The bomb was designed by Soviet chemical engineer (1903-1989) in 1942. Gelperin planned and built bombs with thin metal casings, in order to reduce the use of cast iron and aluminium. In Gelperin's developments, the metal casings represented only 35 percent of the bomb's weight.