Precision Guided Munitions in RuAF

Nah, folks.
It is there as a background to the information given by the lector.
A new bomb is made to kill armored vehicles, radar stations, and SAM units on the ground.
So it is filled not with small cluster ammo, but bigger ones SPBE-K submunition.
15 pcs each.



Check this out :



Those are parachuted, with combined thermal and EM seeker. EM seeker is claimed to be sensitive enough to lock on working power generators, and radar stations of course.

Russia has not signed those conventions on submunitions because the US has not, and the US delivered submunition ammo to Ukraine, like the 155mm BONUS rounds... so Russia can use them as she pleases.

Holly mother of baby Jesus

Not sure if you know what you are looking at?

It is FAB-3000 with added aerodynamic cap (photo 1).

A fukin THREE_TONE.

Someone will surely have a bad day very soon

Edit : here it is for reference to  :

They have stock of those big enough to bomb everyone to the stone age.
All old FABs are constructed this way, including FAB250-M54 model.
The "new" slim layout was only built starting from the mid 60s.
This bulky nose is common and same for FAB250, 500, 1500, 3000, 5000 and ... 9000.
Having that resolved, it is only a matter of bigger wings.
A 9 tone gliding bomb with GPS correction, can you imagine the scale of devastation?!?

Edit : I have watched the whole material about Shoigu visit to the bomb factory, and it is not FAB3000 as I thought lacking perspective. It is 1500. Still fine

There was ODAB fuel-air explosive bomb with the gliding kit presented.
A warm welcome can be applied from a longer distance now

The 54 style bomb shape is no accident... it has two main design goals... the first is to make the bombs a little shorter than a more aerodynamic shape would allow and to effect some aerobraking so they pack well inside bombers or for use externally on subsonic aircraft, but also so they slow down more rapidly when released to reduce damage to the aircraft releasing the bombs at low altitudes.

The 62 models are streamlined for external carriage on fast aircraft and for efficient high speed drops.

The braking effect of the 54 is actually quite significant but no alternative for airbrakes or parachute retarded bombs... fitting a simple sheet metal fairing over the nose of the 54 style bombs has a significant effect on its flight performance... to the point where it is actually worth doing.

They didn't make the model 54 bombs in 1954 and the 62 models in 1962, they were two standard bomb types (shapes) that have been mass produced for decades in enormous numbers... these are cheap dumb bombs mass produced in enormous numbers.

These kits that allow at the same time standoff release and also precision to the impact point... essentially converting cheap dumb bombs to guided smart weapons that are also standoff weapons... which is a dream situation for anyone interested in not wasting money like the Russians or a nightmare for western MIC companies trying to squeeze every dollar out of the US taxpayer... the irony is that an American version would be expensive but simple and not designed to deal with jamming or other things the enemy might do to stop them, whereas the Russian models are cheap and are optimised to actually do a good job and not just be cheap.

They have, of course a wide variety of custom designed glide bombs in all different shapes and sizes and also a huge range of old and new missiles that are all still able to get a job done.

They wont have an enormous stock of older missiles as they would have been expensive but they would have made them in reasonable numbers for the time... likely rather more than a HATO country would make.

They have an enormous range of dumb bombs from HE and fuel air explosive and incendiary and of course cluster bombs as well and compared with the SDB the US uses that are maybe 200-300 pounds in weight, the 1500 weight class weapons are over 3,000 pounds in weight... and if they need them they also have FAB-3000 and FAB-5000 and even FAB-9000 types not to mention the father of all bombs at about 11 tons of material with a HE equivalent of about 45 tons.

Their cluster bombs are going to be devastating... the US will regret their decision to cross that line...

This thing is already impossible to intercept by anything they are crazy enough to put on the front.
A 100+ km version would allow the physical bombing Kiev, out of the AD range.

Imagine shooting a bomb made in the 50s for $5 assembled with welded module for $100 with PAC3 missile costing half a million

It is like with a glider... when there is no propulsion you need extra wing to better glide... the longer you stay in the air the further you can glide, but if you add propulsion then all that extra wing just adds drag along with lift... it slows you down and limits your top speed.

To be clear they have missiles with wings, they have bombs with wings, and they also have dumb bombs from stocks to which they attach wing kits with guidance kits included that make them cheap glide bombs.

The custom designed glide bombs might have smaller wings but will also be custom made for the job and achieve good range and performance likely for specific missions, while the dumb bombs with the glide kits, those glide kits will be modular and used in a range of bombs, perhaps with different sized wings for different weight classes of bombs.

So 250kg bombs might have one wing size while 500kg and 1,500kg bombs have different wing sizes.

The wing size for each bomb weight is for all the dozens of different bomb types in each weight class from FABs and cluster bombs and incendiary bombs and incendiary tanks. Penetration bombs and fuel air bombs, etc etc.

It is good that the US sent cluster rounds for their artillery because Russia also probably had an enormous stock of such weapons that they would have otherwise had to keep and perhaps dispose of eventually.

Now Russia can use up the old stuff, which they will have in enormous numbers, but most importantly cluster munitions are excellent for exposed troops on a battle field all spread out so one bomb wont get them all... perfect targets for cluster munitions. Civilian vehicles are also horribly vulnerable because the light sheet metal they are made from wont stop fragments and packing them with sandbags to give some protection means more fuel use and slower targets.

Russia will literally take take all your tactics, techniques and technologies, improve them 10x, and proceed to **** you up.

Third Rome indeed.