DRAMATIC footage has emerged showing Russian jets dropping colossal bombs on rebel forces in Syria.

Huge earth-shattering explosions rock the ground in video reportedly filmed in the towns of Souran, Taibat al-Imam, Halfaya and Lataminah in Hama Province.

4 Video footage purportedly shows the use of a new type of bomb in Syria Credit: ECS

4 The clips are said to have been filmed in Syria's Hama Province Credit: ECS

The airstrikes were carried out by five Russian warplanes and two helicopters, according to pro-Assad website Al Masdar News.

The news outlet claims the footage shows a new type of bomb being used against what it calls “Islamist” militants.

It was recently revealed Russia has developed a secret bomb which is four times as powerful as the mega-weapon Donald Trump used to blast ISIS in their Afghan mountain hideaway.

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The bomb was test-fired by the Russians in 2007 where the temperature produced by the blast was also twice as high as that produced by the MOAB.

It is not clear what type of munitions were used in the strikes in the video.

But Vladimir Putin is seemingly keen to show off the might of his own military arsenal in the wake of the American strike in Afghanistan.

4 The airstrikes were reportedly carried out by five Russian warplanes Credit: ECS

4 Two attack helicopters were also said to have been involved in the strikes Credit: ECS

Russia has been slammed over the large numbers of civilian casualties in what some have called its indiscriminate bombing in Syria.

During the siege of Aleppo, daily pictures of bloodied children being pulled from the rubble of what was once their homes shocked the world.

And Amnesty International has repeatedly accused Putin and his Syrian allies of purposely targeting medical facilities in rebel-held areas.

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