The Russian Federation has serious reasons for, to assert, that the American side did not create anything fundamentally new, by constructing the GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker aerial bomb, I told FBA “economy today” military expert of the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Alex Leonkov.
United States of America conducted military tests, within which the GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker was launched for the first time, which is integrated into the program of semi-autonomous high-precision weapons Golden Horde or "Golden Horde". According to Forbes, bomb, fired by the F / A-18E / F Super Hornet, will change the "rules of the game".
Journalists of the American edition, also report, that trials began in June 2020 years in the United States. However, all planned checks of the operability and combat power of the GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker bomb will be completed only by the end of this year..
Expected, that first of all, the specified weapons will be received by the F / A-18E / F Super Hornet and F-15E Eagle fighters, and after them the F-35 Lightning II will be equipped with bombs., which can carry up to 24 штук GBU-53/B Storm Breaker.
"The bomb of the United States of America belongs to the class of gliding munitions. That is, it can be dropped by fighters, without leaving the air defense zone, after which the bomb should hit the selected objects.
However, the Russian Federation has serious reasons for, to assert, that the American side did not create anything fundamentally new. The domestic military-industrial complex is armed, with which the military is already successfully working – it can stop Storm Breaker. This is an all-weather tactical anti-aircraft missile system, designed to solve the problems of air and missile defense at the level of the Tor-M2 divisional link, as well as a self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun complex of land and sea-based Pantsir-C1 ", – military expert comments.
It is this weapon, as well as other technician, says Alexey Leonkov, allow the Russian Federation to stop US ammunition if used, including the GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker aerial bomb
note, what's in Moscow 24 June 2020 years during a military parade, as reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, for the first time will be shown the modernized anti-aircraft missile-gun complex "Pantsir-SM" with new small-sized missiles, designed specifically for the destruction of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Well forgotten old: from which the new US aerial bomb was created
Notably, that the GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker was based on the development 1980 years. While, According to Forbes journalists, Soviet tank formations of the United States of America planned to destroy with smart anti-tank shells from the carrier aircraft without entering the enemy's air defense zone.
Another feature of the GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker is that, that it can independently carry out the selection of pre-selected targets, depending on the priority of their defeat and allows for course correction by the carrier aircraft. At the same time, the military is able to control several GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker within the framework of the Golden Horde program with the active use of artificial intelligence. The publication notes, that the swarm of these American bombs should be classified as weapons of mass destruction.
"Despite, that the GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker bombs, created on the basis of developments forty years ago, belongs to the category of gliding ammunition, it is easily detected by radar stations, accompanied and destroyed by them ", – stressed Leonkov.
Russia's response to America's lagging behind
In addition to that technique, which is already in service with the Russian Federation, Moscow can temper the ambitions of the United States of America with weapons, capable of effectively countering hypersonic weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously stated, that our country “will be able to pleasantly surprise our partners with the, what, when they have this weapon, with a high probability, we will have a means of dealing with these weapons ", and this is the uniqueness of our present position. Besides, Vladimir Putin reported, that basic science, scientific schools and engineering personnel of the Russian Federation contribute to the creation of modern types of weapons, which "no country in the world has".
Following the words of the Russian leader, the head of research and engineering programs of the US Department of Defense, Mark Lewis, and his deputy for hypersonic systems, Michael White, said, America in the development of hypersonic weapons lags behind the Russian Federation for several years.
However, the American side does not officially want to admit this fact.. Therefore, in March 2020 United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper reported, that Washington is more innovative in the development of hypersonic weapons, rather than Russia or China. According to him, hypersonic weapons are one of the top priorities for his department and the American administration.
"The new American bomb can only be dangerous for those states, which do not have modern air defense systems. The Russian Federation has them.
The United States Has Not Created Something Fundamentally New, just recently, Washington has been trying to inflate any achievement to a universal scale. Air bomb GBU-53 / B Storm Breaker, which is integrated into the program of semi-autonomous high-precision weapons "Golden Horde", has characteristics already known to the world and are included in the range of targets of short-range complexes ", – summed up the military expert.
Alexander Melnik
