KhAB-500


The KhAB-500 is the provisional naming of a series of World War 2-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.