Creator of the photograph, Collage of the Air Pressure/Ministry of Protection of the Russian Federation/Fighterbomber
June 21, 2024
The Russian military most likely used the FAB-3000-M54 super-powerful guided aerial bomb in Ukraine for the primary time. A home within the village of Liptsi within the Kharkiv area was hit.
Sources of the Russian TASS company within the energy constructions reported on using a high-explosive aerial bomb outfitted with a planning and correction module (UMPK).
Footage of the affect of this bomb was additionally revealed by the Telegram channel Fighterbomber, which is near Russian navy circles.
Rob Lee, one of many main Western navy specialists and a senior fellow on the US-based Institute for International Coverage Research, posted the video on his account on the X community (previously Twitter).
The TASS supply claims that the goal was the Ukrainian navy’s non permanent deployment level in Liptsy.
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Caption to the photograph, Air bomb strike, most likely FAB-3000 on Liptsy in Kharkiv area
The revealed footage exhibits that the bomb was purported to hit the three-story hospital constructing within the heart of the village, however fell close by, roughly 15-20 m away.
Nevertheless, the explosion was so {powerful} that it fully destroyed the one-story buildings subsequent to the hospital, broke out all of the home windows and severely broken a part of it.
On the similar time, the video, which was apparently taken from a drone, doesn’t present folks or the position of navy tools, which might point out using the hospital in Liptsi as a deployment level of the Armed Forces.
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Picture caption Penalties of the assault in Liptsy – destroyed single-story buildings and severe harm to the hospital
The Ukrainian authorities haven’t but confirmed the actual fact of using the “tsar-bomb”.
“We’ve got seen this video, however we are going to lastly be capable to discuss it solely after we can formally determine the wreckage and at the least get to know the place. It’s tough to inform from the video, so we have to wait after we can examine this place and already confidently report which one it’s was the kind of ammunition,” stated the spokesman of the Air Pressure Command, Ilya Yevlash.
“The FAB-3000 is a uncommon case, most likely if the examination confirms it, it is going to be one of many first circumstances when the Russians used such a strong aerial bomb,” the spokesman stated.
What’s FAB-3000
Because the starting of 2024, Russia has been massively utilizing modernized {powerful} aerial bombs to destroy Ukrainian cities close to the entrance. A working example is Avdiyivka, which was bombed each day by FABs and KABs within the winter.
Specifically, circumstances of resetting FAB-1500 have been recorded. And half-ton bombs (FAB-500) had been usually used en masse. Even if the Russian planning and correction module has not but reached the accuracy of the Western analogue of the JDAM with successful of “about 5 meters”, for strikes on buildings, Russian aerial bombs have confirmed to be efficient.
Firstly of spring, the Russian mass media confirmed footage of the manufacturing of aerial bombs at one of many enterprises of the Navy Trade. The authorities of the Russian Federation introduced the doubling of FAB-1500 manufacturing, however the information concerning the revival of the FAB-3000 challenge had a resonance.
These bombs have 1,400 kg of explosives – a severe load and technique of destruction.
Such bombs had been utilized by the Soviet military throughout the invasion of Afghanistan within the Eighties.
In trendy Russia, these FABs are known as “tsar-bombs”. Though in actual fact it’s forged iron, to which they’re making an attempt to connect a set of wings for planning and GPS.
The continual zone of harm within the FAB-3000 is 35 meters. The zone of extreme contusions and destruction is 150 meters. If there are outfitted positions with ceilings, engineering cladding and a parapet, then the affected space is smaller.
Due to this fact, at one time, giant FABs had been decommissioned after being examined in Afghanistan. The sunshine infantry of the Afghans, who had been altering positions and hiding within the mountains, weren’t the best targets for the Soviet aerial bombs.
The one service of this instrument within the Russian Federation was the Tu-22M3 bomber – as a result of measurement of the bomb hatches and the nuances of mounting.
There have been no extra carriers of “three-ton” bombs in Moscow.
The Russian aviation blogger Fighterbomber claims that any longer the FAB-3000 may also carry the Su-34.
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picture captionThe Su-34 plane, in accordance with Russian sources, can carry one FAB-3000 bomb
On the similar time, he talks concerning the “uselessness” of such large-caliber FABs on the entrance. Specifically, as a result of the Su-34 can carry just one such bomb and drop it on just one goal. And the smaller ones – FAB-1500 – such a fighter can take three items on board.
Fighterbomber factors to the inadequate energy of the FAB-3000.
“The video clearly exhibits that the facility of the FAB-3000 is just barely better than the facility of the FAB-1500. This, by the way in which, was the primary motive why their manufacturing was curtailed. Judging by the depth of the outlet, the bomb was set to “prompt explosion” , that’s the reason all of the vitality went to the high-explosive fragmentation motion, and to not digging a gap”
“Z-blogger” calls the FAB-3000 a ineffective product that has a UMPK with an inexpensive satellite tv for pc steering system, poor accuracy and inadequate energy.
Creator of the photograph, Ministry of Protection of the Russian Federation
photograph caption Russia has modernized the FAB-3000, which started manufacturing 80 years in the past
Oleksandr Kovalenko, a Ukrainian navy analyst of the “Data Resistance” group saysthat the Armed Forces are usually not able to face the Russian FAB-3000.
“The truth that the ROV (Russian occupation military, – Ed.) is engaged on UMPK for the FAB-3000-M54 and the potential of their use in tactical aviation – Su-34, was generally known as early as 2023. Due to this fact, the day when the ROV it was a matter of time. And now, are we prepared for it?
For countermeasures, the analyst factors out, Ukrainian troops want long-range air protection techniques, F-16 fighters to destroy bomb-carrying plane at lengthy distances, and operational-tactical ATCMS missile techniques to destroy plane at Russian airfields.
“FAB-3000 M54 can have an especially unfavorable affect on the LBZ (line of fight contact), considerably accelerating the publicity and breaching of our protection traces and fortified areas, if choices on countermeasures are usually not taken, specifically by our companions, as shortly as potential,” Kovalenko believes.
American specialists from the “Institute for the Examine of Conflict” (ISW) level to the intense hazard of the FAB-3000 for Ukraine.
“The truth that the Russian forces have found out tips on how to launch the FAB-3000 is a big improvement and can enhance the harmful potential of Russia’s ongoing strategic bomb assaults in opposition to Ukrainian forces and infrastructure,” – stated within the report of the institute for June 20.
The query is whether or not the Russian Federation will be capable to launch mass manufacturing of such bombs.