Russia’s UMPK guidance kits installed on the FAB-series drop bombs now have a new jet powered variant, which can reportedly extend the range up to 200 km.

Russia is now using a newer, jet-powered version of its UMPK (Universal Module for Planning and Correction/Unifitsirovannyi Modul Planirovaniya i Korrektsii) kits for the FAB-series of unguided gravity bombs. The remains of one near intact ex

Leading Kremlin-aligned and politically hardline Telegram channel ‘Fighter-Bomber’, with ties to many Russian frontline units, identified the specific glide kit configuration as the UMPK-PD, and the bomb as the FAB-500T. Other accounts identified it as the UMPB-5R. ‘AviaHub’ , another Russian Telegram account, puts this particular kit’s range with the FAB-500T at 100 km, and the jet-powered ve

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