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KhAB-500
The KhAB-500 (ХАБ-500) is a Soviet-era-developed, Russian Federation, 500 kg-class, chemical warfare agent (CWA) aerial bomb, which was adopted in 1939. The KhAB-500 may be filled with mustard gas and lewisite, a non-freezing mustard gas, a mixture of mustard gas with nitrogen mustard gas, phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, and other CWA such as nerve agents. The KhAB-500 uses a bursting charge of TNT, its weight varying with climatic conditions (...
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