The Worlds Most Deadly Conventional Weapons

Fox News has an article listing what they believe to be the 5 most deadly types of conventional weapons. While accurate to a point - there is one deadly ommission and it can be considered the MOST lethal of all conventional weapons.

Here are Fox's Top 5 --

The AC-130 aerial gunship: This comes in two forms, the AC-130H "Spectre" and the more heavily armed AC-130U "Spooky," both flown by the U.S. Air Force. Versions of the AC-130 were first deployed during the Vietnam War.

The 'bunker buster' bomb: The British military first conceived of steel-nosed bombs that dropped heavily and quickly enough to penetrate underground targets.

Laser-guided bombs: First used in Vietnam, these bombs (and some missiles) home in on a laser-illuminated target marked either by the shooter or a third party on the ground. Unpowered bombs use fins to steer themselves to the target; powered missiles use rocket or jet engines.

The .50-caliber sniper rifle: Confederate soldiers first mounted scopes on high-powered rifles during the Civil War, but the first specially designed sniper rifles for both police and military use came about in the 1970s. The barrels are precisely machined and specially mounted to minimize recoil.

Anti-personnel mines: These little hidden bombs cause such havoc in civil wars around the world that they've been banned by most nations. The U.S. still insists on retaining the right to use them, though it doesn't actively deploy them.

The most lethal conventional weapon - 'The Dad of all Bombs' - is owned by Russia and has the ability to equal the destruction of a nuclear bomb. Through the use of nanotechnology has a blast radius twice as big as our strongest non-nuclear bomb and four times more powerful.

This air delivered weapon explodes in an intense fireball combined with a devastating blast. It explodes in a terrifying nuclear bomb-like mushroom cloud and wreaks destruction through a massive shockwave created by the air burst and high temperature...

Besides the obvious, the real danger of thermobaric bombs is that the technology in its' rawest form is available to terrorists. There is reason to believe that the explosion at the Islamabad Marriott may have been a crude form of a thermobaric bomb.

Click here for video of a thermobaric explosion.