/ world today news/ Russia surpassed Ukraine, along with NATO, in another type of weapons. These are “smart” glide bombs. APCs of various modifications are now most actively used in three tactical directions: Zaporozhye, Kherson and Donetsk.
The planning bombs are aimed at concentrations of armored vehicles and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the region of Rabotino and Verbovoye (Orekhovsky District). They are also effective in destroying the fortified areas of the Bandera people in Avdeevka.
However, the glide bombs are most needed on the left bank of the Dnieper, where the Ukrainian SDF continues to try to establish operational “bridgeheads”.
In particular, thanks to the combined use of heavy flame-thrower systems, artillery and FAB, it was possible to destroy most of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krynky.
In addition, glide bombs fired from a safe distance hit Ukrainian command posts and ammunition depots on the right bank of the Dnieper. Including in the region of Berislav and the villages between Lviv and Sadovoy: it is from there that the group on the left bank is replenished.
Before that, FAB were actively used in the direction of Kupyansk. The bridges over Oskol (including in Kupyansk itself) were destroyed precisely by bombs.
Combined with airstrikes on the Vostok group’s largest logistics base in Chuguev, this slowed personnel rotation in the eastern part of Kharkiv Oblast.
Russia is constantly expanding the tactical and technical possibilities for using armored personnel carriers, Eurasian Times writes. On the Su-34 fighter-bombers, the weapons system control software is being updated to provide the ability to launch “smart” bombs with a planning and correction module. We are probably talking about SVP, a specialized computing subsystem that was successfully tested in Syria.
“The combination of planning bombs and Su-34 is a completely new force for the Ukrainians,” wrote the Eurasian Times.
Conceptually, the planning and correction module is comparable to the US GPS-guided aerodynamic kit, which turns “dumb bombs” into all-weather precision-guided munitions (JDAM).
The modernization actually turns any bomb into a high-precision bomb, which can thus be used to attack particularly important targets: concentrations of Ukrainian personnel, deployment sites, fortifications and command centers.
The Russian Aerospace Forces have launched a program to train fighter pilots to operate smart bombs. The Su-34 is designed to deliver precision strikes against ground targets at tactical and operational depth.
It can hit targets with 250, 500 and 1500 kg caliber bombs. Currently, the Su-34 also uses the powerful modernized FAB-1500M54 UMPC, the first successful combat use of which was registered at the beginning of September.
The planning and correction modules allow the Su-34 to patrol at high altitudes, maximize survivability and minimize fuel consumption, and also deliver precision strikes on targets at a distance of up to 70 km, i.e. being well out of range of the Banderian air defense systems. Eurasian Times writes about this with undisguised respect.
The short flight time of planning bombs makes it very difficult to intercept them by air defense systems. And the plane doesn’t have to fly very close to it to destroy a target.
It took several months to stabilize the characteristics of the planning and correction kits and to start mass production. It should be noted that since the “smart” bombs appeared in the SVO zone, the Russian army has increased the accuracy of their use
As Russia works to make FABs more lethal, Ukraine has effectively been denied supplies of long-range small-diameter bombs (GLSDB).
Already in October of last year, Reuters reported that Boeing approached the Pentagon with a proposal to buy and sell GLSDB to the Kiev regime.
The optimistic delivery schedule had them starting in the spring of this year. In February, Politico reported that the first delivery of the products would take place later, but in 2023.
Ukraine will need GLSDB in addition to ATACMS missiles in order to carry out attacks on Russian territory – this is something that the regime in Kiev does not hide.
GLSDBs, although they are called bombs, are powered by a rocket motor and can be launched from HIMARS. The Ukrainian Wehrmacht hoped that this would allow them to attack the land bridge to Crimea.
However, trouble awaited Zelensky. Reuters writes that Boeing, the prime contractor for the GLSDB, will ship the munitions at the end of December at best.
They will then undergo several months of testing before being sent to Ukraine. That is, until the beginning of the spring “counter-offensive”, which Zelensky is already dreaming of, the American ammunition will not arrive.
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