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Russia has increasingly fired glide bombs at Ukrainian territory in its invasion of the country. The bombs are equipped with guidance systems that allow them to be launched from jets at a distance.
Kyiv's forces are also getting better at defending against the glide bombs. Russian aircraft have launched glide bombs at Ukraine throughout much of the war. The weapons are equipped with special ...
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.
The commander of Ukraine's air force shared a video of a fighter jet dropping a French-made glide bomb on a Russian control center in Kursk.
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-500s fitted with UMPKs were seen being used on publicly ...
A glide bomb or stand-off bomb is a standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces. This allows it to be released at a distance from the target rather than right over it, allowing a successful attack without exposing the launching aircraft to anti ...
Ukraine’s military says it used high-precision U.S. glide bombs to strike Russia’s Kursk region, and that is has recaptured some territory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv that has ...
During a major Russian assault in late November, Ukrainian troops noted Russian forces were increasingly deploying motion-sensing kamikaze drones and bombing their positions with glide bombs, while Ukrainian ammunition stocks continued to deplete. The Russians were firing eight or nine artillery shells for every Ukrainian shell.