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The Tsar Bomba is the single most physically powerful device ever deployed on Earth, the most powerful nuclear bomb tested and the largest human-made explosion in history. [64] For comparison, the largest weapon ever produced by the US, the now-decommissioned B41, had a predicted maximum yield of 25 Mt (100 PJ).
List of largest armed forces may refer to: List of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel; List of countries by military expenditures;
The Space Force claims it is the only phased array radar that can track spacecraft in deep space, can detect an object the size of a basketball out to geosynchronous orbit, 35,700 km in space, and is the most powerful radar in the world. [6] However its aging legacy technology, which uses vacuum tubes, gives it high maintenance costs. [14]
A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale. Great powers characteristically possess military and economic strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence, which may cause middle or small powers to consider the great powers' opinions before taking actions of their own.
A super heavy-lift launch vehicle is a rocket that can lift to low Earth orbit a "super heavy payload", which is defined as more than 50 metric tons (110,000 lb) [1] [2] by the United States and as more than 100 metric tons (220,000 lb) by Russia. [3]
Scientists in China have built the world’s most powerful magnet, capable of producing a magnetic field 800,000 stronger than Earth’s.. After four years of development, a team from the Chinese ...
The most powerful and best-known nation of these periods is the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 934–609 BC. [ 16 ] Shalmaneser III (858–823 BC) attacked and reduced Babylonia to vassalage, and defeated Aramea , Israel , Urartu , Phoenicia and the Neo-Hittite states, forcing all of these to pay tribute to Assyria. [ 17 ]