this is how the FAB-1500 works

Russian forces hit the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine yesterday for the first time with a 1.5-ton guided aerial bomb: an investigator from the regional police department, Sergii Bolvinov, announced this on Facebook, as reported Ukrainska Pravda. As reported yesterday, an 88-year-old woman was killed in the attack.

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The village in the Kupyan district was hit

The maxi-bomb, called FAB-1500, hit the village of Monachynivka in the Kupyan district, destroying houses and an entire street. «In this border village… there were no more than a hundred inhabitants and there were no soldiers. The Russians equipped the FAB-1500 with a special module so that the bomb could glide after launching from the plane – wrote Bolvinov -. This is the first time that weapons of such power have been used against us. The only thing they managed to do was demolish the villagers’ houses and kill an 88-year-old woman. Her body was pulled from under the rubble after the impact.”

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What are FAB-1500s

The FAB-1500 packs 675 kilos of explosives, can be launched from a distance of 40 to 70 kilometers from the target and has a destruction radius of 200 metres. He has been nicknamed the “building destroyer” by Russian war bloggers. “Basically, they are Soviet-era unguided bombs with smart fins added to attack stationary targets with a certain degree of precision,” says Foreman, the former attaché. The bomb’s course can also be corrected using satellite or laser navigation, improving its accuracy. A Ukrainian soldier from the 46th Separate Aviation Brigade, based in the Donetsk region, described the effect of these bombs as “hellish”. He told CNN: “If you survive, you will definitely have a contusion. It puts a lot of pressure on the soldiers’ morale.”

Destructive and lethal

There are three reasons why they are proving so deadly. First, their explosive impact is significant compared to the artillery and ammunition used on the front lines, due to their size and weight. Secondly, they can be launched from a distance of about 40 kilometers, which means that Ukraine is forced to use long-range interceptor missiles that have shorter reserves. The third reason is that modifications of these old bombs are cheap to make. Ultimately, says Justin Bronk, senior researcher at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank: «Russia certainly has the capacity to produce more glide bomb kits for the older FAB series bombs than Ukraine has for refuel its surface-to-air missiles. So cutting them down directly is not a sustainable strategy.”

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