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It is often said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness and this appears to be the status of Ukraine today as it attempts to produce an exact replica of Russia gliding and correction bomb kits.
The system, known as the UMPK [Russian: УМПК; Унифицированный модуль планирования и коррекции, Unified gliding and correction module] kit, was designed to allow unguided bombs like the FAB-500 to hit targets as far 80 kilometers away with high accuracy.
Ukrainian developed Medoed on June 25 released video footage showing a FAB-500 equipped with an exact replica of a UMPK kit being dropped from a Su-24 fighter bomber of the Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) during a recent test.
According to available information, the Ukrainian kit can currently reach a range of 60 kilometers. The range, of course, depends on the altitude, speed and trajectory of the warplane before the bomb is dropped. Work to extend the range to 80 kilometers is said to be underway.
While the UMPK uses a jam-resistant GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system, the Ukrainian copy likely utilizes some commercial GPS system.
UAF warplanes are already armed with several types of guided glide bombs supplied by its allies, including United States-made JDAM-ERs [joint direct attack munition-extanded range]. However, the supply is said to be short from the demands of the Ukrainians.
The UMPK kit has proven to be a real game changer. While Ukraine could benefit from copying the system, relying on GPS could make their replica vulnerable to Russian electronic warfare means. Western-made bombs supplied to the UAF are already being successfully jammed.
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kill all ukrainians, this disease needs to be eradicated once and for all!!!
ukronazis swine have nothing to offer, only disinfo, distraction and abject ignorance…
to get to the height required to release such glide bombs would be suicidal for the nato backed ukrainian side.
at last they did not copy german ww2 bv246 200km range glide bomb ..nor anybody else ..poor russian level of overall knowledge comes with a prize , fortunately ukrainians are even worse
bv246 had fixed wings (span over 6 meters) and tail and needed an he111 or ju88 to launch, at very high altitude. not practical, just another wunderwaffe – which these days seems to translate to “last gasp” – or to use yank-speak “hail mary”….
time to give ukraine nukes and gbu-57 to hit putin and medvedev in their fuhrerbunker.
time for u to lick more peniz in americunt gay bars
question: why does uaf still have planes?…. worse still with runways to fly them off of???
because they are not stationed in ukraine but on nato territory.
bs. than what you are suggesting is that they are being flown from poland into ukraine which would be a trigger for a nuclear exchange?… than again?…. with everything else we’ve seen poutine allow -not far fetched.
runways are easy to fix, and older sukhois and migs can use open fields if necessary – unlike “lawn darts”…..
my point being, that russia should have had this whole thing put to bed before 2021. the fact that this show is still running is indicative like his withdrawal of syria that “deals” are being made, and that the indigenous ones and their right of return in the eastern donbas will be swept aside for the “new money”!…
ukies copy americunt humiliation in afghanistan