“A serious problem for air defense”: Russian expert about the bombs that the United States is going to transfer to Kyiv
Precision GLSDB bombs that the US can transfer to Ukraine in the near future, are inexpensive and very dangerous weapons that can completely change the nature of hostilities in the area of military operations.
Military expert Dmitry Kornev stated this on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
GLSDB is a fairly unique combat system. This is a mixture of a conventional small-diameter aerial bomb, of which there are many in service, and a smart unit with wings and a satellite navigation system is attached to it. To all this is added a rocket engine from a conventional Haymars rocket.
The result is a unique missile system that launches from the Haymars installation, accelerates, then the bomb is separated from the engine and flies further on its own as a gliding precision bomb, can perform maneuvers during the flight, move along the planned route, and attack the target from an unexpected direction. The range is up to 150-160 kilometers.
The most important point is that this ammunition is very inexpensive, forty thousand dollars. For a high-precision missile, this is pennies. Such missiles can be produced in fairly large quantities,” Kornev said.
He emphasized that back in the fall of 2022, the United States discussed the possibility of supplying these ammunition to Ukraine. And they will probably be included in the next aid package for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“This significantly changes the working conditions of our troops in the contact zone. Now we must keep operational ammunition depots, personnel collection points, and so on at some distance from the front line, approximately within an hour's reach.
Accordingly, we will have to take them one more, or maybe more, hours away from the contact line in order to remove them from a potential strike by these “GLSDBs.”
At the same time, whether they will be used on the territory of the Russian Federation or not is still a question. But the fact that they will change planning, the use of military units, and the preparation of equipment on the contact line is a fact,” the expert added.
At the same time, he emphasized that it would be very difficult for Russian air defenses to deal with such ammunition, because they are small and fly low above the ground, which makes their detection much more difficult.
“In theory, Pantsir-type systems, under ideal conditions, should hit them in the same way as Haymars shells can hit them. But the problem is that this is a small-sized object; it will probably be discovered too late.
Plus, due to the fact that it is gliding, it can move not along ballistic territory somewhere at altitude, but rather at low altitudes, skirting the terrain somewhere. For air defense, this is a more difficult target than conventional Haymars missiles,” Kornev concluded.
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