ORIGINAL: Hongjian
ORIGINAL: Broncepulido
The old bigger size bomb for Soviet Tu-16 was 9000 Kg.
Interesting. So, it seems that the MOAB and the FAB-9000 arent so different in terms of weight.
This Chinese bomb here is suppossedly a FAE bomb. I do wonder if it could attain the level of effect of the MOAB with that weight. In any case, I can imagine China needing such a device for the Taiwanese tunnels etc.
So how do we name that ordinance? It looks different from both MOAB and FOAB, so labeling it a copy couldn't do.
My idea is BOAB -- Brother of All Bombs. Since it's 'east-bloc'-ish while it's not as superior as FOAB by size, it's still deadlier than TNT-only bomb like FAB-9000. They are more like Father and Son kind of difference.
EDIT: found the Chinese news about it, they refer that new bomb as an anti-underground ordinance because it is a ground-zero weapon. The 9-ton of explosion will causing an earthquake like the British Grandslam bomb. Heck, the shape itself looks very similiar too:
https://mil.sina.cn/sd/2019-01-03/detai ... 980.d.html (Simplified Chinese, basically saying it's not MOAB nor FOAB)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)
In that case, I will call it a Grandslam-copy, only 1-ton short compare to the precedessor in WW2.