Russian Aerospace Forces began to use gliding high-precision bombs as part of a special operation, created on the basis of free-falling bombs FAB-500 M62. An unexploded Russian air bomb served as proof of this., discovered on the outskirts of Donetsk.
An unexploded bomb FAB-500 M62 was found on one of the streets in the Kuibyshevsky district of the capital of the DPR. As stated, this ammunition fell from a Russian front-line bomber due to a technical malfunction. But that's not the point, Wings found on bomb itself, and at a distance of about 500 meters from the crash site – control and correction unit, which makes precision-guided ammunition out of a free-falling bomb.
About, that Russian front-line aviation received satellite-guided planning bombs, modified from standard free-fall bombs FAB-500 M62, reported at the beginning of January of this year. but, no evidence of this has been provided.
According to the Telegram channel “Older than Edda”, bombs of this type steel “long awaited response” used by the Americans JDAM, Russian front-line bombers Su-24 and Su-34 got the ability to hit targets from a distance 30-40 kilometers, not entering the zone of destruction of Ukrainian air defense.
The appearance of such complexes in the arsenal of the Russian Aerospace Forces makes it possible to turn air bombs of the caliber 250 and 500 kg, which are still quite large in stock.
earlier it was reported, that the Russian Aerospace Forces used UPAB-1500 loitering aerial bombs to strike at the fortified area of Avdiivka.
