“Putin’s monster bomb”: mass production of a flying bomb has begun in Russia – BILD
Russia has apparently begun mass production of its heaviest glider bomb to date and is now increasingly using the FAB-1500-M54. This was reported by the German edition of BILD.
Recently, the Russians dropped such a 1.5-ton explosive on a residential area of Krasnohorivka near Donetsk. The FAB-1500 crashed into the middle of a residential neighborhood and was visible from afar.
Russian propagandists filmed the attack from two angles.
This footage shows a 1.5-ton cruise missile hurtling from the south toward an eight-story apartment building. A second later, a powerful explosion thundered in the attacked residential area. The result was a fireball 20 stories high.
The FAB-1500-M54 is an updated version of the KAB-1500 bomb developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. It has been used since the 80s. However, unlike previous models, the FAB-1500 has a specific airframe that poses a threat to our military.
The bomb, which weighs 1,500 kilograms, including 675 kilograms of explosives, can now fly up to 40 kilometers, adjust its course using satellite or laser navigation, and hit its target with an accuracy of 20 meters. Russian military bloggers even claim a range of over 70 kilometers. However, there is no evidence of this yet.
With a strike radius of more than 200 meters, the FAB-1500 has such low accuracy (compared to its Western counterparts) that it can cause enormous damage.
For Ukrainians, Moscow’s use of a new monster flying bomb is a horror. Currently, it has almost no means to shoot down Su-34 fighter-bombers that drop bombs twenty kilometers from the front,” BILD notes.
