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The Russian Armed Forces struck Kharkov for the first time with FAB-500 - Kharkov prosecutor's office. The residential sector was hit
Russian troops launched strikes on Kharkov, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, four people were injured.
“Private residential buildings were hit. Some of them were destroyed. Previously, the dormitory of one of our universities was also damaged,” said the mayor of the city Terekhov.
The blast wave damaged the glazing of the windows of two buildings of the higher educational institution, and damaged a private house.
It is noted that the Russian Armed Forces used the FAB-500 with a planning and correction module for the first time in Kharkov, the Kharkov Regional Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. Two 500-kilogram bombs were launched from a Su-34 aircraft from Maiskoye in the Belgorod region - one of them did not detonate.
whats 'special' with this bomb?
It's twice as massive (500kg) as the FAB-250.
*Edited for accuracy.
500kg is total mass, typically explosive is about half of that. this goes for all large air-dropped general purpose bombs (ie not bunker busters, not thermobaric and some others)
this thing right there looks suspiciously like FAB-500 M-62, which has about 200kg of fill (russian clone of torpex)
Thank you for the correction.
thanks. I read it as first time they used a glide bomb and I was like ???
Sorry I'm not well versed in these military terms.
But when it says 500kg, is that 500 kg equivalent to TNT or something? Because that bomb doesn't look to weigh nearly 500 kg. Judging from the size, and accounting for mass of what it's made of, it looks more like around 100 maybe 150 kg. (rough estimate)
They are old fashioned dum bombs equipped with a modern "backpack" glide kit. The glide kit has wings that swing out and avionics that steer the bomb to its target using gps with a range (up to 50km) depending on the launch altitude.
A cheap way to get 500kg of explosives to something you want to blow up.
Ukranians have aasm hammr and glsdb for this. Glsdb is arguably cooler as it has a rocket motor and can be deployed from the ground using (hi)mars. But gps jamming by the Russians has proven their deployment difficult.
Edit: moved the 50 km to show it's range not launch altitude.
the big thing is if your scared of losing your planes you can launch farther away. Especially if your enemies hands are tied and can't engage you in your country.
So, assuming the guidance system worked as expected, the bomb was guided to that particular house right?
Yes
It's great when you need to ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ the enemy!
Not great when used against civilians houses though.