Russian Aerospace Forces will receive planning bombs "Drill"

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This year, the Russian Aerospace Forces will receive the new Drel gliding bombs for the first time. Their combat effectiveness has been confirmed by test results.

About this in interview Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who is in charge of the country's military-industrial complex, told the Interfax news agency.



Prior to that, he said that the new ammunition would go into service with the operational-tactical aviation... In particular, they are planning to equip them with the latest Su-57 multipurpose fighters.

As the "Russian newspaper", the bomb is capable of gliding at a distance of up to 30 kilometers from the drop site. Thus, the aircraft does not need to overcome enemy air defenses to approach the target. The bomb is navigated through the GLONASS system.

The ammunition contains 15 combat elements that are self-targeting. Having flown up to the place of strike, they separate from the bomb and descend by parachute, aiming at the target with the help of sensors. At the same time, the ammunition is equipped with a "friend or foe" recognition system, which allows it to hit only enemy equipment, without touching its own.


In addition, the aerial bomb does not interfere with the operation of electronic warfare, to which it is insensitive, and radars are practically unable to detect it.

Thus, it is extremely difficult to spot and destroy this ammunition.
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  1. +9
    10 May 2021 06: 09
    Self-targeting submunitions! Yes in a gliding bomb. Something like that was about the "Smerch" warhead. An effective and dangerous weapon.
    1. +13
      10 May 2021 07: 33
      Too many lies.

      30 km. Is not the limit of the air defense zone. The aircraft will definitely be detected while approaching the drop point.

      The bomb is controlled by jeepies, but for some reason it doesn't give a damn about electronic warfare. winked

      And of course, descending by parachute, the bomb determines the belonging of armored vehicles and only kills the bad guys. fellow

      Borisov seems to be an adult.
      Then who came up with these tales?

      It would be great..
      I poured out a couple of hundred of such ammunition over the contact line of the ukrofashists in Donbass, and cunning shells would have soaked all the equipment of the Nazis.
      Yes, only this is just a fantasy.
      1. +3
        10 May 2021 10: 00
        Quote: For example
        30 km. Is not the limit of the air defense zone

        30 km is farther than the near air defense zone. And the column on the march at a potential enemy is protected only by close air defense. They rely on aviation, the client Bukov and the S-300 B4.
        I poured out a couple of hundred of such ammunition over the contact line of the ukrofashists in Donbass, and cunning shells would have soaked all the equipment of the Nazis.

        First you need to send the Ducklings from the Ha-58 to extinguish the remnants of the Bukov and the S-300, and then go to Drill.
        1. +10
          10 May 2021 10: 54
          30 km is farther than the near air defense zone. And the column on the march at a potential enemy is protected only by close air defense. They rely on aviation, the client Bukov and the S-300 B4.

          When it comes to SDB and its derivatives with its 100+ km of planning, it suddenly turns out that this is not a weapon, but children's toys, and in general is not a question for any adequate air defense. But the "drill", which is many times larger, and its gliding range is less, just some kind of invulnerable super-weapon turns out.
          1. -1
            10 May 2021 11: 09
            Quote: alexmach
            When it comes to SDB and its derivatives with its 100+ km of planning

            Don't juggle. In this post I talked about the military air defense of a potential enemy, and in the post below that SDB is unitary
            1. +4
              10 May 2021 11: 36
              In this post I talked about the military air defense of a potential enemy

              It sounds like a classic "I see here, I don't see here". Well, or belief in the magic of your own air defense.
              and in the post below that SDB is unitary

              Well, in the same place you were given a variant of a planning cluster bombs similar to the "Drill" size and weight of the warhead, and planning many times further. Disputes about the size of submunitions in this vein are generally not consistent.
              1. +1
                10 May 2021 11: 41
                Am I arguing? Just asking. Can the BLU-108 / B and BLU-97 / B cassettes be compared with the Drill. I think no, you can’t. The weight category of the striking elements is different
                1. -4
                  10 May 2021 12: 51
                  According to your logic, Russian electronics is better because it is bigger and heavier? Trying to make up some kind of excuse for this miscarriage. The BLU 97/108 has enough armor penetration to defeat any modern and promising tank in the world. Don't be creative.
                  1. +2
                    10 May 2021 15: 58
                    According to my logic, you can't break through a tower with a 1,5 kg charge. And judging by the weight of the Drill, there are 15 full-fledged tandems. And the BLU 97/108 has a warhead less than a kilogram comparable to one hand-held anti-personnel grenade. You guys, before you want to cram the tag into the real, then look. Different tasks, well, absolutely. So to speak. BLU 97/108 My S-125 will blow to pieces, but a tank column - not in this life hi
                  2. 0
                    11 May 2021 01: 52
                    The BLU-108 is an airborne submunition containing four additional Skeet smart warheads. The system is manufactured by Textron Systems Weapons and Sensing Systems. The BLU-108 is deployed from an ammunition dispenser using a parachute to slow its descent. He then launches four fast-rotating targets that use multimode optical sensors to detect targets ranging from tanks and rocket launchers to railroad locomotives and landing planes. When the saucer passes through what it considers a priority target t (this priority can be changed before use), it fires a 0,9 kg (2 lb) penetrating projectile providing armor-piercing and incendiary effects, as well as a fragmentation ring designed to engage any weak targets , primarily opponents, in close proximity to the target.
                    And what is this armor piercing?
  2. +3
    10 May 2021 06: 13
    I would like more details, for example, what is the mass of the bomb and submunitions. What types of ammunition are used: (cumulative, HE, etc.). For which aircraft it is intended.
    1. +13
      10 May 2021 06: 58
      Quote: Sergey Mikhailovich Karasev
      I would like more details, for example, what is the mass of the bomb and submunitions. What types of ammunition are used: (cumulative, HE, etc.).

      TTX Bombs:
      Diameter, mm 450
      Length, mm 3100
      Weight, kg 500
      The number of BEs in the cassette, pcs. fifteen
      Application Modes:
      - height, m ​​100 ... 10000
      - speed, km / h 700 ... 1100
      Fuse type built-in VU
      Gliding range 30-50 km

      It is equipped with an inertial guidance system in combination with the GLONASS satellite navigation system. Delivery to the region is carried out in a passive mode, the work of damaging elements is active, which eliminates the need for a carrier to capture and highlight the target (the “dropped-forgot” principle is implemented).
      Anti-tank submunitions (SPBE-K) ... "nuclear shock" (EFP charges). Copper cladding ... "guidance" - IR + ARL ...
  3. +8
    10 May 2021 06: 29
    30 km, is not enough for using such a carrier as the Su57? It is normal for a UAV.
    1. +8
      10 May 2021 07: 00
      Quote: O. Bender
      30 km, isn't it not enough ...

      Not enough ... the American "analogue" has much more ... at times!
      1. 0
        10 May 2021 09: 10
        Quote: Nikolaevich I
        Not enough ... the American "analogue" has much more ... at times!

        And what kind of analogue? GBU - 39 not to offer, not an analogue, because unitary AB
        1. +2
          10 May 2021 09: 58
          Quote: Tusv
          And what kind of analogue?

          AGM-154 ... "Conceived" in 3 "variations" ...: 1). "Filling" of cumulative fragmentation "bombs"; 2). "Filling" from SPBE; 3). "stuffing" of concrete-piercing warheads ... The planning range is up to 110 (130) km ... If the cluster bomb is equipped with a rocket engine, the planning range was supposed to be up to 560 km ... By the way, try to find a similar "abbreviation instead of GBU-39 "СBU-39! It seems to be, too, a cluster bomb, stuffed with various submunitions ... unguided ... an "analogue" of the RBK-500!
        2. +1
          10 May 2021 10: 00
          Quote: Tusv
          And what kind of analogue?

          AGM-154 with BLU-108 / B (24 submunitions) or BLU-97 / B (145 submunitions)

          Length: 4,06 m
          Diameter: 406-519 mm
          Wingspan: 2,69 m
          Range:

          when launched from low altitudes - 22 km
          when launched from a high altitude - 130 km
          with engine - up to 560 km

          Maximum bomb weight: 495 kg
          In service: since 1998

          Current operators:
          Australia
          Canada
          Finland
          Greece
          Netherlands
          Poland
          Saudi Arabia
          Singapore
          Turkey
          United Arab Emirates
          USA
          Taiwan

          1. 0
            10 May 2021 10: 51
            Quote: OgnennyiKotik
            B / H BLU-108 / B (24 submunitions)

            Thank you. Only the BLU-108 / B has four 0,9 kg warheads, while the AGM-154B carries six. BLU-97 / B weighs 1.5 kg. Will the roof of the tank be punched? For example, the Cornet has a warhead weight of 7 kg. Are such light warheads analogous to Drills? Question
    2. -2
      10 May 2021 07: 39
      Quote: O. Bender
      30 km, is not enough for using such a carrier as Su57? For a UAV it is normal

      30-50 km. Application altitude from 100 m. Is this not an over-the-horizon application?
      Exactly, over the horizon ... 37 km visibility.
      1. +3
        10 May 2021 08: 51
        From one hundred meters, this bomb will fly three hundred meters. A little further bricks.

        This is undoubtedly beyond the horizon of consciousness. laughing

        The maximum range is provided by the maximum drop height and the maximum allowable drop rate.
        If these conditions are met, there is no chance of hiding behind the horizon. hi
        1. -2
          10 May 2021 12: 25
          Quote: For example
          This is undoubtedly beyond the horizon of consciousness.

          Don't you know about pitch-up bombing? This technique is being actively practiced, and taking into account homing it can be very successful. It's kind of offhand. To expand your horizon of consciousness. Ordinary AFAB, which threw from a shaver at a speed of 700, flew several kilometers. The dispersion was large, so it was ineffective to use a non-homing ammunition. And we have PLANNING ... At a speed of 300 m / s, but at 45 degrees to the horizon ... It will fly far away.
          1. -1
            10 May 2021 13: 19
            Quote: Mountain Shooter
            To expand your horizon of consciousness

            To expand your horizon of consciousness, you should study physics and geography.
            And also try to grasp the essence of the issue.

            Quote: Mountain Shooter
            PLANNING ... At a speed of 300 m / s, but at 45 degrees to the horizon ... It will fly far away.

            From a hundred meters try to send to "flight" "At a speed of 300 m / s, but at 45 degrees to the horizon .."

            There are realities of life:
            - in order for this blank with wings to fly a sufficient distance, it is necessary to throw it off from a great height.
            This is not a damn glider soaring. The ascending air flow cannot lift this piece of iron higher.
            It is a piece of pipe with wings and stabilizers that help to DROP with a given precision.
            But this requires an initial speed and drop height.

            No maniac drops these bombs from a hundred meters and at an angle of 45 degrees.
            1. 0
              10 May 2021 16: 41
              Quote: For example
              To expand your horizon of consciousness, you should study physics and geography.
              And also try to grasp the essence of the issue.

              Blatant illiteracy. I am telling you for the dull ones. The plane accelerates at low level, goes to climb (without losing speed, there is enough thrust), and then dumps with a stained-glass window and back home. You can calculate how far a simple projectile will fly at a specified speed. And this one with wings will climb, gain seven kilometers, and from there he will plan where necessary. If the aerodynamic quality is slightly better than that of a brick (6-7), then the range will be just under 50 km. Is that clearer? You are our physicist, half with a geographer.
    3. +2
      10 May 2021 10: 08
      Quote: O. Bender
      For a UAV, it is normal.

      This is now "approved" - the maximum 30 km ... The first reports "stated": 30-50 km ... By the way, it seems that it was the "Drill" that was preceded by the experimental RBK-500U ... it also mentions there: up to 50 km when dropped from a height of 10 km ... Moreover, they were going to deal with a variant with a rocket engine ... the range should be even greater!
      1. 0
        10 May 2021 10: 24
        Quote: Nikolaevich I
        The first messages "stated": 30-50 km

        Few, very, very few. The same Turks enter the KGK-82/83 Air Force. In fact, this is a body kit that can be installed on any conventional bomb of NATO / USSR standards with a caliber of 240-500 kg. Including cluster bombs.

        From a fighter, the declared range is 110+ km, from a propeller-driven UAV, 30+ km.


        1. +3
          10 May 2021 11: 02
          I do not understand at all what prevents to look at the "partners" and to give the pancake a gliding bomb a more "airplane" aerodynamic shape. If there is a ready-made guidance system, then work with the hull so that it would fly away what is in the way? Disposable foldable fenders are impossible to manufacture or not?
          1. 0
            10 May 2021 11: 20
            Azerbaijan modernized FAB-250 by analogy with JDAM. I used them in Karabakh. It is called QFAB-250 LG.



            There are also FAB-100/250 variants with wings. The range is 8-60 km.



  4. +3
    10 May 2021 06: 57
    The joy of our potential adversaries is overwhelming. lol
    1. +4
      10 May 2021 07: 34
      Quote: Ros 56
      our potential adversaries

      Partners !!! And just in case, bring some valerian! wink
  5. -4
    10 May 2021 07: 58
    Their combat effectiveness has been confirmed by test results.

    Not "combat effectiveness", but the maximum performance characteristics. Challenges are not combat.

    As reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the bomb is capable of gliding at a distance of up to 30 kilometers from the drop site. Thus, the aircraft does not need to overcome enemy air defenses to approach the target. The bomb is navigated through the GLONASS system.

    30 km is not enough distance so that "the aircraft does not need to overcome the enemy's air defense to approach the target."
    Satellite guidance is good in irregular conflicts, but not good with an opponent who has graduated from MIT.

    At the same time, the ammunition is equipped with a "friend or foe" recognition system, which allows it to hit only enemy equipment, without touching its own.

    Fairy tales, fairy tales and more fairy tales. This will work when the top projection of the bourgeois tanks is rectangular and the Russian ones are triangular. This is not to mention the fact that Soviet-Russian tanks are in service with potential opponents of the Russian Federation.

    In addition, the aerial bomb does not interfere with the operation of electronic warfare, to which it is insensitive, and radars are practically unable to detect it.

    Hmm ... GLONASS is not jammed? The bomb itself is radio-transparent, and the parachute is transparent even in the optical spectrum of electromagnetic radiation? wassat
    1. -3
      10 May 2021 08: 43
      Quote: professor
      Not "combat effectiveness", but the maximum performance characteristics. Challenges are not combat.

      We've been looking forward to your comment here .. laughing Thank you, wiped yourself off .. negative
    2. +3
      10 May 2021 12: 01
      Quote: professor
      At the same time, the ammunition is equipped with a "friend or foe" recognition system, which allows it to hit only enemy equipment, without touching its own.

      Fairy tales, fairy tales and more fairy tales. This will work when the top projection of the bourgeois tanks is rectangular and the Russian ones are triangular. This is not to mention the fact that Soviet-Russian tanks are in service with potential opponents of the Russian Federation.

      Professor ! You are again "confusing a fork with a bottle"! request What does the "triangular-rectangular" shape have to do with it? The combat elements of the SPBE-K are equipped with an active radar that can operate in the "interrogator" mode ... ("friend or foe" / "interrogator-responder" system)! Deuce to you, professor ... and three times ... no, five times stop read the reference book on friend or foe systems!
      1. -3
        10 May 2021 12: 17
        Quote: Nikolaevich I
        Quote: professor
        At the same time, the ammunition is equipped with a "friend or foe" recognition system, which allows it to hit only enemy equipment, without touching its own.

        Fairy tales, fairy tales and more fairy tales. This will work when the top projection of the bourgeois tanks is rectangular and the Russian ones are triangular. This is not to mention the fact that Soviet-Russian tanks are in service with potential opponents of the Russian Federation.

        Professor ! You are again "confusing a fork with a bottle"! request What does the "triangular-rectangular" shape have to do with it? The combat elements of the SPBE-K are equipped with an active radar that can operate in the "interrogator" mode ... ("friend or foe" / "interrogator-responder" system)! Deuce to you, professor ... and three times ... no, five times stop read the reference book on friend or foe systems!

        "Can work"? Tell us about the systems "friend or foe" on cluster munitions coupled with tanks. For offset. wink
        1. +3
          10 May 2021 12: 40
          Quote: professor
          Tell us about "friend or foe" systems on cluster munitions mated to tanks

          Well, professor ... you have requests! Tell you all military secrets! belay And it's not like a "cookie box"; but even a pack of crackers is not offered! negative
          1. 0
            10 May 2021 13: 58
            Quote: Nikolaevich I
            Quote: professor
            Tell us about "friend or foe" systems on cluster munitions mated to tanks

            Well, professor ... you have requests! Tell you all military secrets! belay And it's not like a "cookie box"; but even a pack of crackers is not offered! negative

            Not offset. There is no such system. That is, it exists, but it is a military secret. wassat
  6. Kaw
    +4
    10 May 2021 09: 46
    the bomb is capable of gliding at a distance of up to 30 kilometers from the drop site.

    In my opinion, this is very small by modern standards, for imported analogs the range starts from 60 km. and higher.
    1. +1
      10 May 2021 10: 47
      Quote: Kaw
      In my opinion, this is very small

      It's not just a little, it's criminally few. Especially for a new bomb, not a modification of the old one. The same JDAM-ER makes any old bomb more long-range than Drill. It is only comparable to “regular” JDAMs.

      1. +1
        10 May 2021 20: 42
        "criminally small" ...
        It's physics. Nobody canceled the force of gravity. Those. much depends on the weight of the ammunition and the warhead. Apparently, this "Drill" weighs no less. As I understand it, the PBK-500U - judging by the numbers, it is 500kg .. The British have an ammunition weighing 60kg from a small warhead under 100km ... Much depends on the carrier (aircraft) and the drop location. Those. carrier speed and drop height. It's one thing with a kilometer of altitude and low speed, another thing with a max. altitude and supersonic (and for this, ammunition with a suspension mechanism must be adapted). It can even be assumed that you cannot drop the Drill at supersonic sound. For example, conventional ABs on supersonic do not drop - there is no sense in this - you will get into milk and only ... Well, and aerodynamics.
        Such ammunition will be used only after all serious air defense has been cleaned out. A MANPADS and anti-aircraft art. at such a distance (30 km.) do not work ... Everything has its place and time. ...Something like this. hi
        1. 0
          11 May 2021 17: 32
          Quote: Kasym
          The British have an ammunition weighing 60 kg with a small warhead under 100 km.

          You are wrong. Israel, for example, has a family of Spice bombs with calibers ranging from 150 kg to 900 kg. So this same 900 kg flies 100-110 km.
          And the little ones are only 70.
          1. 0
            23 May 2021 11: 36
            Nikolai, no mistake.
            Gravity: F = mg (g = 9.8 m per sec.). Therefore, it is directly proportional to (depends) on the mass of the object. For example, what is faster for a fluff or a stone of the same size to fall to the ground from the same height? But the lift is directly proportional to the wing area. Consequently, the Israeli bomb has a large wing area (the bottom is probably flat). But here there are also "pitfalls": a large wing causes more air resistance - a lower flight speed - a longer response time - it is easier to shoot down. hi
  7. 0
    10 May 2021 10: 19
    "The bomb is capable of gliding at a distance of up to 30 kilometers from the drop site. Thus, the aircraft does not need to overcome the enemy's air defenses to approach the target" ///
    ----
    What kind of air defense is this with a range of 30 km? smile
    1. +1
      10 May 2021 10: 57
      Quote: voyaka uh
      "The bomb is capable of gliding at a distance of up to 30 kilometers from the drop site.
      What kind of air defense is this with a range of 30 km? smile
      For example
      SAM Yitian from China
      zrk yitian
      Range up to 6 km.
      I am just giving an example of a short-range air defense system ...
    2. +1
      10 May 2021 16: 08
      Quote: voyaka uh
      What kind of air defense is this with a range of 30 km?

      Just all western military air defense can finally be up to 20 km. Not well, of course, there are average ones, but with a deployment of 15 minutes or more, you are all dead, to be honest. You can't cover a tank column on the march
      1. +1
        11 May 2021 05: 31
        You can't cover a tank column on the march

        The carrier will not intercept, but a cluster bomb may well be deployed before it is deployed. Even the "Air Defense Derivation" with a 57-mm cannon with shells with remote detonation is probably even capable of this. You just need to put a small millimeter-wave radar on it.
    3. 0
      10 May 2021 23: 26
      What kind of air defense is this with a range of 30 km?
      I mean short-range air defense, capable of covering a convoy on the march, for example, IM-SHORAD with your MHR radar, in my opinion this is the newest that the United States has, the rest is all junk of the Avenger type
  8. 0
    10 May 2021 15: 32
    gregräpker [quote = O. Bender] 30 km, is not enough for using such a carrier as the Su57? For a UAV it is normal. [/ Quote
    Well, advertising in the West has always been better, both animations and works of art (ala Dunno on the Moon). There are no true characteristics in the public domain, it's like believing gentlemen)) At the same time, the characteristics are both overestimated and underestimated, or maybe they just counted where the blank fell from the highest launch height). And who will be bombed at such a distance, third world countries? With the Russian Federation or China, a local conflict will not work - 120 km range of destruction, a thing that can be good, but not effective.
  9. +1
    10 May 2021 16: 48
    Indeed, why is the range so short? Logically, the range depends on the altitude and speed of the drop (which is not known) and aerodynamic quality (the ability to glide at a certain distance in kilometers with a decrease of one kilometer), I think that in fact, everything is in order with the characteristics. We just don't know the initial data.
  10. 0
    10 May 2021 18: 36
    I've seen miracles, but this ...

    And the radar does not detect and is not sensitive to electronic warfare.

    And the enemy cannot drown out and change the GLONASS signal, can it?

    Yes, and in order for a 30 km bomb to be dropped, it must not be dropped from a height of 30 meters, but much higher, but if so, then within 30 km and the carrier aircraft can be detected and shot down by even medium-range air defense systems.

    But let it be, it will come in handy))
  11. 0
    10 May 2021 23: 15
    303030303lnkoeutskebgyuonbrktv 30303030303tutvupv03teyaltachepv is based on mk03
  12. 0
    11 May 2021 19: 51
    the names of the ammunition are definitely encouraging))

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