The GLSDB system. Source: Saab Group
The United States will resupply Ukraine with Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB), after they were upgraded to better counter Russian electronic warfare, Reuters reported on March 14, citing two sources familiar with the weapon.
The GLSDB, which was developed by American Boeing and Swedish Saab Group, combines the 129-kilogram GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB), which is guided by a GPS-aided inertial navigation system, with the M26 227 mm rocket motor. It has a range of up to 150 kilometers.
The SDB has been in service for around 18 years. The GLSDBs are not however currently used by the U.S. military. Ukraine was the first to use it in real combat conditions last year.
The weapon performed very poorly due to a combination of mud, technical problems and Russian electronic warfare, according to U.S. officials.
Some 19 upgraded GLSDBs were test-fired in recent weeks to assess their effectiveness, Reuters’ sources said, adding that the modifications involved reinforcing connections within the weapon to enhance its resilience.
The news agency noted that the first use of the upgraded weapon could occur in the coming days, as a stockpile is already present in Europe.
The bombs will arrive amid reports that Ukraine’s supply of American-made ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles has been depleted.
Earlier this week, White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announced after talks with the Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia that the U.S. would resume aid transfers to Ukraine. The joint declaration following the meeting also states that Ukraine has expressed its readiness for a 30-day ceasefire.
Upgrading the GLSDB does not necessarily mean that the weapon will be more effective as the Russian army is also constantly working to upgrade and improve its electronic warfare means.
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russia has been using them for a while -cheap to make on firing wings pop out and satellite navigation used to pinpoint the target,nazi germany used them the fritz-x in ww2 .it also means russian bombers dont need to be near the drop zone but can stand -off so patriot missiles dont affect them as a shorter distance is needed for them.
another advantage is that a 1.5 ton bomb can be used causing large devastation the uk/usa have been complaining about this for a long while. zelensky now says they have been supplied with jamming electronic equipment but russia already has electronic jamming.
yeah, but this is just great to start peace talks! just, is this another minsk, so theh can rearm? just great.
donald wasn’t happy that russia didn’t obey his order to ceasefire so restarted the supply of weapons to ukraine but your right he is going the wrong way about getting russia to the peace table as of now kursk is nearly retaken ukraine troops retreating why should they stop when they havent achieved all they said they would do russia is winning
greed is the source of all misery! a less good friggin’ bomb supplied by the disunited cockroaches of america and partly produced in sweden, once neutral to the core – no longer so! shameful.
all those ukrainian pigs died for nothing in sudzha. that’s the best the british and nato could do for their expendable “allies”.
russia needs to seek peace while they have the upper hand. but then again, zionist russia isn’t that smart.
you can never have peace if the nazi cockroaches running ukraine are allowed to stay in business.
because the americans will probably just give up on their twenty-five-year effort to unseat the nationalist government and russia, and the two-hundred-plus-year effort to make sure that there is not economic and security cohesion on the eurasian landmass. the derp is strong in you!
how does this end the war trump you fucking clown? fire mike waltz he is a moron
he’s only there to entertain. that by now is clearly plain.
you are most certainly a moron. do you think drumpf is reading the sf comments? did you think drumpf had even the faintest notion about the geopolitical and economic dynamics that underlie this conflict? derp hard, derpster.
clyde who do you think pays the paid posters here who post night and day -the american and british government ??? so they do recognise that this is a pro russian website and attack it.
clyde his language might not be to your taste but what he posted is appropriate and you continually go on about derping this slang word comes from south park a child s programme so answer my question as i think you are american -who did you vote for republicans or democrats ?? you never answered me the last time i asked .
us ‘glide bombs’ are nowhere near as ‘smooth’ as the killing of neo-nazi demyan ganul.
immediately after the echr rules on the odessa massacre, one of its key instigators is killed on the streets of odessa in plain sight.
gee, i wonder why that happened?
well, you know, during wwii, the mafia in italy was fighting the fascists but in ukraine, they work together out of common cause.
during ww2 the mafia was making sure that the fascists didn’t fight anybody in western sicily.
check out bitchute ‘ukraine’ and the video of his assassination. if that isn’t an sbu assassin, i’ll eat my shoes.
drumpf ended the war in twenty-four hours. he’s almost as good as porky.
the way he’s going about it, he’ll need 24 years.
these “negotiations” are just play acting. chumpo is just going through the motions so he can say he’s tried, walk away and dump ukraine on the uk/ eu suckers. putin is just going through the motions to appear reasonable and keep the support of the global south. this will be decided on the battlefield like ww2 and the us civil war. ww2 ended in berlin, not because churchill met hitler and made some kind of agreement.
the real deal is the usa and eu continue to pump up ukraine with weapons while putin wants to make nice nice and sell oil and gas.