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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 ...
Glide bombs are old Soviet-era weapons that are fitted out with guidance systems and wings, enabling them to be launched at long distances.
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.
But the glide bombs have wreaked havoc on Ukraine's infrastructure. Russia dropped more than 900 glide bombs on Ukraine in just a single week at the end of October and early November, Ukrainian ...
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 ...
As of May 2023, UMPK-equipped FAB-500 glide bombs have continued to be used by Russia in Ukraine, with up to 20 of them being dropped every day, and Ukrainian air defences lack the capability to intercept them. [12] [16] The full-scale training of Russian pilots on using the bombs reportedly started in November 2023. [17]
An overnight attack on Zaporizhzhia, also in the south, with three powerful glide bombs killed one person and injured 21, including a 4-year-old boy, Ukraine’s National Police said. The strikes partially destroyed a two-story apartment building and damaged a dormitory.
This past fall, we spoke with Colonel Maksym Balagura, a special forces commander in Ukraine's State Border Guard, and asked if Russia's use of glide bombs had changed the trajectory of the war.