Trocano

Trocano is a Brazilian thermobaric weapon similar in design to the United States' MOAB weapon or Russia's FOAB. Like the US weapon, the Trocano is designed to be pallet-loaded into a C-130 Hercules aircraft, and deployed using a parachute to drag it from the C-130's cargo bay and separate from its pallet, at which point the bomb's own aerodynamics determine its drop trajectory.

The Trocano contains 9,000 kg of tritonal, producing a total destruction blast radius of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi). This places the Trocano above the blast yield of the US weapon (containing 8,150 kg of explosive) and second only to the Russian weapon (with 11,000 kg).

References

• "Relatorio de atividades 2011" [2011 Activities Report] (PDF). Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço [Brazilian Aeronautics and Space Institute]. Retrieved 20 November 2015.