Ukraine will receive smart Glsdb bombs from the US

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After Ukraine has graduated from the ATACMS long -range missiles, the United States decided to transfer bombs to the GLSDB distant radius for our country. According to Reuters, the appearance of Glsdb on the battlefield can happen in the coming days as they have already been delivered to Europe. What is the weapon – in the material Briefly about.

GLSDB (Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb-a small launch-launch bomb is a small high-precision ammunition. It is also called a “smart bomb” or “rocket-bomb.” It’s new Weapons developed since 2019 by American Boeing and Swedish SAAB. The Armed Forces will become the first army in the world that uses it on the battlefield.

GLSDB combines a small diameter of GBU-39 with a missile engine from the M26 jet engine. Such a projectile can affect the whole at a distance of up to 150 km. They are able to destroy the bridges, affect the team points and artillery of the enemy.

The precision of Glsdb lesions is up to 1 meter. It is more difficult to knock down than standard ammunition through an unpredictable trajectory. The smart projectile uses both the inertial system and GPS satellite navigation to go to the target. There is a variant of laser beam to up to half a meter. At the same time, to use a modification of a laser head bomb requires a “backlight” of goals that can be done from the ground and from Bayraktar or Puma drone.

Another advantage of GLSDB is that such ammunition does not require the use of aircraft that Ukraine has in limited quantities. Launches from mobile ground installations allow you to get close to the front line unnoticed, shoot, turn quickly and leave.

GLSD is released from the Himars installation or a similar M270. Using the engine with the help of the engine, the bomb is separated and, when heading to the goal, releases folded wings. GLSDB can cost $ 50,000, which is much cheaper than ATACMS missiles, the price of which is 1 million per one.

GLSDB is very difficult to detect and intercept. The winged bomb uses a jet engine only in the first stage of flight and only to gain height. In the future, the ammunition opens its wings and plans for the target. Since, flying to the target, the bomb does not use the engine, it does not create a thermal mark to capture it with infrared heads with infrared heads. And compact dimensions make this bomb almost imperceptible to radar. But if the bomb still fixes the radars, it is able to maneuver and even to capture the areas of effective air defense. For example, managed ammunition may fly to the front line, turn 180 degrees and strike from the rear where it is not expected.

Features:

• GLSDB length-3.91 m, of which 1.8 m is the GBU-39 airbag;
• ammunition diameter – 24 cm, which makes it more like a rocket;
• full wingspan – 1.61 m;
• the weight of the projectile – 270 kg;
• weight of the combat unit – 93 kg;
• The type of combat part is multi -purpose.

GLSDB bombs will, taking into account the front line, will impress enemy targets in all occupied territories of Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions and in the absolute majority of the occupied territory of Kherson and Luhansk regions. Also, the presence of these weapons will affect the targets in the northwestern part of the occupied Crimea.

Source: kp.ua