Guided bombs: a well-forgotten old

В news More and more often there are reports on the tapes about the use of guided or planning bombs in Ukraine by the RF Armed Forces, which are often also called "smart". In particular, literally today information was published about the successful defeat of armory warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region by planning FABs.

In Russia, there are guided bombs created as finished products, for example, UPAB-1500B, modular - "Grom" or equipped with a planning and correction module - UPAB-500.

There are similar ammunition in Western countries, in particular in the USA - GBU-39, SDB, etc.

However, despite the fact that the saying "smart bomb" suggests something ultra-modern and high-tech, the roots of these munitions stretch back to the 40s of the last century. The first guided bombs were developed in Nazi Germany and used by the Wehrmacht during World War II.

The pioneer in this field is the engineer Max Kramer with his FX-1400 aerial bomb. The development of the product started in 1940, and it was put into service in 1943.

The FX-1400 had four cruciform stabilizers in the middle of the hull and a box-shaped tail. The guidance system was represented by the FuG 203a "Strassburg" command radio receiver, and for visual observation, the bomb was equipped with an LED tracer.

This air bomb was dropped from a height of 4 to 8 km at a distance of 5 km from the target. At the same time, its accuracy was 26 meters.

However, although the FX-1400 is considered the first guided bomb, at about the same time in Germany, under the guidance of Professor Herbert Wagner, another similar Henschel Hs 293 ammunition was being developed. At the same time, it also entered service in 1943.

This model differed from the Kramer bomb in the presence of a jet booster, wings instead of cruciform stabilizers and the shape of the tail.

Wagner's idea was that the jet accelerator, turning on for 10 seconds, gave the product an additional speed of up to 190 km / h. Given the speed of the carrier, the bomb could accelerate to 360 km / h. In this case, the discharge took place at an altitude of up to 1,5 km and at a distance of 8 km from the target.

Both German guided bombs were designed to destroy large surface targets.

Comments

[Smoked]

"Connected!" as they say in the Internet. The RF Armed Forces discovered planning bombs from ordinary ones. You look, they will soon discover for themselves that from ordinary Soviet old bombs, it turns out that it is even possible to make smart sea mines for rapid and massive mining of water areas.
It's sad, of course. For so many years, the Russian Aerospace Forces have been throwing cast iron during exercises like grandfathers, with the declared suppression of enemy air defense, but it happened that the SVO had to creep along the ground on an ultra-modern aircraft and shoot from a pitch-up. Okay, they know better there with big shoulder straps, of course.

[Alexander Kochurkov]

"German guided bombs were created to destroy large surface targets" and were successfully used ..

[Smoked]

This is for the majors, and normal people are engaged in top-mast bombing! To, like grandfathers on the course, go under anti-aircraft guns! And then you won’t get enough medals for all these with guided weapons, you launched it and forgot, you know. Where is the rupture? Where is the feat?

[NG inform]

Yeah, the Americans are stupid, thousands of pilots ruined everything.

[Bolt cutter]

the bomb was equipped with an LED tracer.

Pyrotechnic tracer. The production of LEDs began in 1962.

[Duncan]

Relatively bright LEDs appeared only in the 90s of the last century.

[Duncan]

Maybe they will also guess to put cameras on them and control them in flight, at least in the next ten years?

[Sergei N 58912062]

Quote from dunkan

Maybe they will also guess to put cameras on them and control them in flight, at least in the next ten years?

Already guessed. We have such bombs in service.

[glock-17]

The first guided bombs were created by the Japanese under the name Ohka. True, they planted kamikaze in them and their effectiveness was low.

[mat-vey]

The first guided anti-ship torpedo bombs were made by the Germans back in World War I. Siemens made a wire-controlled glider. True, then with air bombs it was still the beginning of the journey and a torpedo was taken as the basis. control took place ..... tadam ... from the AIRSHIP ... the length of the control cable is about eight kilometers.

[Sergei N 58912062]

That's why I hate watching and listening to Sergey Shumakov - it's because he always has a lot of unnecessary and unnecessary chatter in his videos. And in this video, he stuck an advertisement and, as usual, he grinded a lot of things that were not relevant.