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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 ...
A Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber releases a FAB-3000 glide bomb in a video released by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Russian Ministry of Defense/Screengrab via Telegram.
A FAB-3000 glide bomb is seen mid-flight in this video released on July 14 by the Russian Ministry of Defense. ... Ukraine has specifically attempted to clamp down on the Russian glide-bomb threat.
A Russian FAB-3000 with a UMPK guidance kit attached, converting the unguided bomb into a glide bomb. Glide bombs adapted from existing unguided bombs such as FAB-500 and FAB-1500 using inexpensive UMPK kits have been used extensively by Russian forces in the Russian invasion of Ukraine due to their low cost and reduced vulnerability to ...
On 20 June 2024, Russia claimed that it used, for the first time, a FAB-3000 modified with a guidance wing kit near Lyptsi in Kharkiv Oblast. Russian media claimed that it was aimed at Ukrainian soldiers, Ukraine claimed that it narrowly missed a hospital. Russia announced that it was restarting production of the FAB-3000 in March 2024. [12]
Russia is intensifying glide bomb attacks on Ukrainian defenses. ... They include the FAB-250, FAB-500, and FAB-1500, which are named after their respective weights in kilograms.
The FAB-500 is a Soviet-designed 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) general purpose air-dropped bomb with a high-explosive warhead, primarily used by the Russian Aerospace Forces, former Soviet republics and customer countries. The original M-54 model was rolled out in 1954, shaped for internal carriage by heavy bombers, a low-drag M-62 version in 1962 ...
The new weapons are Russia's response to setbacks in Ukraine—and a potentially troubling sign of things to come.