Command of the Armed Forces Ukraine (APU) near Soledar was destroyed by a unique Russian FAB-1500 bomb with a unified planning and correction module (UMPC). The weapon was fired from a fighter-bomber Su-34. About this “Komsomolskaya Pravda” reported retired colonel Victor Baranets.

The blow hit the headquarters of the separate tactical group “Soledar”, which was located near the village of Aleksandro-Kalinovo.

Result: about 50 members of the Wesseushki (and not only them) were eliminated, about the same number were wounded. Almost all communications equipment, military equipment and strongholds within a radius of one hundred meters have been destroyed

Victor Baranets

According to Barants, the successful defeat of the target was made possible thanks to the use of reconnaissance equipment, including on the ground, and the skill of the aircraft crew.

Russian experts note the effectiveness of FAB-1500 with UMPC

According to captain 1st rank Vasily DandykinaFAB-1500 is three times more powerful and several times cheaper than a rocket “Dagger”and also allows the aircraft to use weapons without entering the enemy’s air defense (air defense) zone.

This allows you to avoid endangering the combat vehicle and crew. At the same time, the hit accuracy is high, which means that this is a new powerful weapon

Vasily Dandykin

Major General of Aviation, Hero of Russia Sergey Lipovoy noticed that the targets of the FAB-1500 are buried objects of the Ukrainian military, primarily command posts, ammunition and armored vehicle depots, fortifications, bunkers and infrastructure located underground.

The use of FAB-1500 with UMPC has been known since September

In September, the Mash Telegram channel, with reference to a military pilot and the author of the Fighterbomber channel, reported that the Su-34 fighter-bomber of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) Russia first used the FAB-1500 bomb with UMPC during a special operation in Ukraine.

Its launch was considered successful, the crew of the aircraft was nominated for an award.

Mash

It is noted that the designers had to create new equipment for the ammunition, which made it possible to increase the bomb’s dropping range. The author of the Fighterbomber channel added that the probable circular deflection of the bomb is 5 meters, and the affected area exceeds 2 square kilometers.

According to him, the Su-34 can carry two FAB-1500 with UMPC, while in the future the aircraft can be armed with three ammunition.

Previously, FAB-500M62 bombs with UMPC were used with the Su-34

Unlike the one and a half ton FAB-1500, this ammunition is three times easier. Like in July wrote Columnists for the American publication The Drive, Thomas Newdick and Tyler Rogoway, of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, cannot understand how the glide bombs used by the Russian Aerospace Forces work.

The authors note that in Kyiv, Russian glide bombs are considered a headache due to their effectiveness, since they allow fighters to hit targets and breach Ukrainian defenses without entering enemy air defense coverage

Later, on the pages of the same publication, an expert in the field of Soviet and Russian aviation, Pyotr Butovsky statedthat the need of the Russian Aerospace Forces for shells with UMPC, which converts unguided aerial bombs into guided ones, will grow.

The author recalled that Russia first presented the UMPC in 2002 at the Farnborough Air Show (Great Britain), where four types of UMPC were shown, created by the State Research and Production Enterprise “Basalt” for the FAB-500M-62 aerial bomb.