От мала до велика: какие ФАБ есть в распоряжении российских военных

Domestic aerial bombs remain one of the most effective means of destruction in the arsenal of the Aerospace Forces. With their help, you can deliver a high-precision strike on the enemy's critical infrastructure, destroy clusters of equipment and manpower, and cut off supply routes. The most high-tech and powerful aerial bombs of the Russian Aerospace Forces are in the material www1.ru.

The first line of high-explosive aerial bombs (FAB) weighing only from 50 kg to a solid 5 tons appeared in the Soviet Union back in the 1930s. Then, a universal projectile was used to destroy a variety of targets - from railway junctions and military-industrial facilities to enemy manpower. During the Great Patriotic War, this type of aerial bomb was often used to destroy naval targets.

In the USSR, three-ton FABs began to be produced in the post-war period, in which explosives make up half the weight. Such shells leave huge funnels with a diameter of 80 m and a depth of 20. The FAB-9000 M-54 weighing 9 tons was nicknamed the real "Tsar Bomb" during the Cold War.

Filled with more than 4 tons of explosives, the bomb passed its baptism of fire in Afghanistan, where it was used to collapse entire mountain gorges. Currently, the most widely used of the entire line of high-explosive aerial bombs in Russia is the FAB-500.

Corrected retribution

FABs were classified as free-falling aerial bombs. Pilots needed to approach the object of destruction as close as possible to use them, which is associated with risk both for the combat vehicle and for the pilot.

However, the situation changed when universal correction and planning modules (UMPC) began to be installed on the FAB and turn aerial bombs, if not into high-precision weapons, then, definitely, into high-power and highly effective ones.

The bombs come off the aircraft's suspension, the FAB's wings open, and it, "steering", at a fairly high speed heads to the target along the coordinates initially embedded in its control system using satellite and inertial navigation systems.

Currently, UMPC modules are installed on FAB-250, FAB-500 and FAB-1500 aerial bombs. In addition, videos of the use of FAB-3000 with UMPC are going viral on social networks.

Thus, it recently seemed that the old aerial bombs had already outlived their usefulness. But it was not there, they were supplemented with a coordinate correction system, given wings and sent on a flight to terrorize the enemy.

Earlier www1.ru reported that a rare FAB-500T aerial bomb was spotted on the line of combat contact. It has improved aerodynamic properties due to the elongated body.

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