russia has begun dropping guided bombs based on fab-250, which have their own “secret”
And this “secret” is what kind of module Russia can use for such bombs
The National Police of the Donetsk region reports that during this week, Russian invaders used guided aerial bombs based on FAB-250 to strike at the civilian infrastructure of the region.
However, only the city of Toretsk, located less than 10 kilometers from the current front line, was hit by such bombs – several bombs on Monday, July 3, two on Tuesday, July 4, and three on Thursday, July 6. While the invaders used either X-31P and X-59MK guided missiles or long-range MLRS to strike at the civilian infrastructure of Donetsk region settlements located at a greater distance from the front line.
Such reports from the National Police of Donetsk region are important because they are currently the only official source that records the fact that the occupiers used guided 250-kg bombs at the FAB-250. At the same time, the presence of such bombs in the Russian military became known in May 2013.
At the same time, at least one point remains a mystery: what module the Rashists use to turn Soviet FAB-250s into guided bombs, and what is the maximum range of such aircraft weapons.
The most likely version is that the Russian occupiers used the same UMPK module that was originally used for the 500-kilogram FAB-500M62 to adapt it to the FAB-250.
At that time, the Russian military had already “experimentally” established that half-ton bombs with the UMPK module significantly exceeded the permissible loads for beam holders on the same Su-34, which often led to “abnormal” detonations of these “JDAM-ER analogs” during strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. Therefore, for our enemy, replacing a 500-kg bomb with a 250-kg air bomb from this perspective looked like a rational and logical decision.
But at the same time, we cannot rule out that the Russian invaders could at least partially use the developments of the Minsk “558th Aircraft Repair Plant” under the “Module-A” project, as a kind of variant of the same UMPK, to create their 250-kg guided bombs on the basis of FAB-250.
The 558th Plant made the first presentation of its Module-A for the 250-kg OFAB-250 bomb at the MAKS-2009 exhibition, but since then it has not been known whether this “product” has received a serial customer, in particular, the Belarusian armed forces or the Russian army.
But at every possible opportunity, Belarusian developers “PR’d” their “Module-A”, claiming, among other things, that a bomb with such a module would have a range of up to 60 km. Therefore, if only because of this, we cannot exclude the possibility that Russia could have used the developments of the Minsk “558th plant” in one form or another to manufacture its 250 kg guided bombs.
