Solutions to win: Ukrainian developers test revolutionary high-precision aerial bomb with rocket booster
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Ukrainian engineers are developing a new GPS-guided munition with highly precise capabilities to cover long distances.
Forbes reports this.
What is the problem?
The Ukrainian Air Force currently uses a variety of combat aircraft, including the Su-24, Su-27, and MiG-29, which are equipped with American and French glide bombs.
However, the limited supply of Allied resources, such as only 50 Hammer bombs per month from France, has created an urgent need to boost domestic production.
What is the solution?
Therefore, Ukraine is developing new high-precision ammunition with GPS guidance and unique technical characteristics that can cover significant distances.
How does it work?
The latest ammunition prototype, called "Molot" (meaning "hammer" in Ukrainian), incorporates the following capabilities:
- A rocket booster and foldable wings allow a maximum flight distance of 40 miles.
- Advanced GPS guidance technology enables precise targeting of desired locations.
- Resemblance to the French Hammer bomb.
Developing new bombs in Ukraine offers many strategic benefits:
- Decreasing reliance on imported supplies: Ukraine can gradually replace foreign bombs, such as the French-made Hammers, with domestically produced ones.
- Sidestepping limitations on the use of foreign weaponry: producing its ammunition allows Ukraine to bypass any restrictions placed by its allies on using their weapons.
- Enhancing combat capabilities: with its bombs, Ukraine will be better able to confront Russian air and artillery assaults.
For reference:
On August 24, during the Independence Day celebrations, Zelensky announced the first successful combat use of the Ukrainian Palianytsia drone-missile.
The president mentioned that there are around 24 Russian military airfields that the Ukrainian missile can target. The rocket was produced rapidly within a year and a half.
The purpose of the Ukrainian missile is to safeguard the civilian population by neutralizing the enemy's offensive capabilities on their land.
At a press conference on August 27 during the "Ukraine 2024. Independence" forum, Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine had successfully conducted its first test of a domestically produced ballistic missile.
The Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, stated that the Palianytsia drone-missile, the successful utilization of which Ukraine's president recently announced, costs less than $1 million.
