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The H-4 may be a copy or a Pakistani variant of the Denel Raptor II glide bomb. [8] [9] [10] HOPE/HOSBO are a family of glide bombs under development by German defence firm Diehl Defence. NPO Bazalt subsidiary of Russian company Techmash is developing a glide cluster bomb PBK-500U Drel. [11] UMPB D-30SN is a Russian glide bomb introduced in ...
The PBK-500U Drel (Russian: Дрель, lit. "drill") is an inertial and GLONASS-guided cluster glide bomb developed by the Russian Federation, designed to destroy enemy armored vehicles and buildings.
In March 2024, photos of the wreckage of a previosly unseen Russian ordnance with the "UMPB" marking surfaced in Ukraine. Preliminary analysis of the wreckage told that UMPB is a type of air-launched weapon that has a FAB-250 bomb integrated into the guidance-and-glide kit, with inertial and satellite navigation systems, ailerons, and actuators at its aft end, with a jet engine and fuel tank ...
Cancian said that Russia is able to heavily use glide bombs in Ukraine because the front is static and largely unmoving, so Russia can get away with a weaker control system and inflict less ...
The "glide bombs" are old Soviet-era weapons that are fitted with guidance systems and wings, enabling them to be launched at a long distance by Russian fighter planes to strike Ukrainian positions.
Russia dropped more than 900 glide bombs on Ukraine in just a single week at the end of October and early November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at the time. Russia also continues ...
It entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1987. [4] In November 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian forces reportedly began deploying RBK-500s fitted with Unifitsirovannyi Modul Planirovaniya i Korrektsii (UMPK) standoff glide bomb kits against Ukrainian forces in Donetsk Oblast, near Staromaiorske. It was the first time RBK ...
The new weapons are Russia's response to setbacks in Ukraine—and a potentially troubling sign of things to come.