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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 ...
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.
DRDO Glide Bombs are developed by India. It has a winged (Gaurav) and non-winged (Gautham). These are developed by DRDO and manufactured by Adani Defence & Aerospace. GBU-44/B Viper Strike is an American glide bomb. A Russian FAB-3000 with a UMPK guidance kit attached, converting the unguided bomb into a glide bomb.
Russian Forpost-R and Orion combat drones also employ their own miniature glide bombs, the laser-guided KAB-20L (46 pounds), the satellite-guided KAB-50S (110+ pounds), and the UPAB-50, the last ...
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.
Ukraine used long-range drones to strike a Russian airbase in the Volgograd region overnight. The attack caused blasts at warehouses storing glide bombs, a Ukrainian security source said.
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 ...
Ukraine's military said Wednesday that Russia had launched 27 glide bombs in the region; it's not clear whether that figure was in total or in one day. Either way, it's a much smaller number than ...