KhAB-500

The KhAB-500 is the provisional naming of a series of World War II-era aerial bombs developed by the Soviet [Air Force] to deliver chemical weapons.

History and design

KhAB-500s were typically filled with yperite or phosgene. It was in diameter and about long. Its loaded weight was about including roughly of chemical agent and a impact-fused burst charge.
Upon detonation, the KhAB-500 R-10 would create a hemispherical cloud of gas with a radius of. In ideal weather conditions, the phosgene cloud could produce serious medical effects up to downwind.
The KhAB-500 was carried by Soviet Union era aircraft.
The bomb was removed from service as a result of the Chemical [Weapons Convention] in the early 1990s.