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I knew about MOAB but not FOAB, which is four times more powerful?!
It's definitely skeptical. The MOAB was designed to literally collapse parts of mountains. This doesn't really look like a similar result.
If you can see buildings still standing right next to the blast like this, then it was just a glorified pipe bomb. Dont get me wrong its fucked up anyways, but it just really looks like a fairly tiny explosion.
Seems either unremarkable/not new or fudged
Same source as you linked.
Its a big ol thermobaric, which sucks but isn't ground breaking (except literally lol)