The GLSDB system. Source: Saab Group
The Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) the United States is preparing to arm Ukraine with can be easily intercepted by existing air defenses, Andrey Marochko, a retired colonel of the Luhansk People’s Militia, told TASS on February 3.
The GLSDB was developed by American Boeing and Swedish Saab Group. The system combines the 129-kilogram GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB), which is guided by a GPS-aided inertial navigation system, with the M26 227 mm rocket motor.
Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder confirmed to reporters earlier on February 3 that the new U.S. military aid package to Ukraine will include GLSDBs.
While the GLSDB is being promoted by the mainstream media as yet another “Wunderwaffe,” Marochko told TASS that the ground-launched glide bomb can be easily intercepted due to its low flight velocity.
“GLSDB’s flight velocity is much lower than, say, that of the type M31 HIMARS rockets Ukraine is now receiving. Hence, our air defense systems will have more time to target and hit them,” he told the Russian news agency, adding that there is no official data about GLSDB rockets’ range while open sources provide varying information. “Some sources say these rockets can fly to a distance of up to 150 kilometers, but there is no official verification. Many say the range is 130 kilometers,” he said.
Marochko stressed that the GLSDB “will not change the situation at the combat engagement line.” According to a report by Reuters, the munitions could be delivered to Kiev forces as early as spring.
“I am not sure that the Ukrainian army will be in the position it is today. Our successful offensive actions indicate that before these munitions reach troops our forces will push the enemy back from the combat engagement line and people in the LPR will be in safety on the entire republic’s territory,” the retired officer added.
Reuters’ report revealed that the GLSDB is not yet compatible with HIMARS systems already in service with Kiev forces. To solve this problem, the U.S. will provide Ukraine with new launchers for the munitions.
GLSDB munitions will be easier to intercept than HIMARS rockets, at least in theory. Still, their supply represents a major escalation by the U.S., who is trying to prolong the conflict in Ukraine as much as possible in the hopes of draining and breaking Russia.
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What a monumental world changing event this war turned out to be. IF Zion Zelensky would have surrenedered in March of 22 and negotiated a peace deal with Russia, the empire of lies would have still walked away from this conflict saving face. Instead they thought they could go all out and resist Russia. Now the whole world sees how useless all the U.S. NATO weapons are and how a single nation can literally defeat 30 plus NATO countries including thousands of foreign NATO troops, military strategists and billions in combined military aid. Worst of all the U.S. and NATO have exposed to the whole world that their military industrial capacity is so much weaker than anybody ever expected as they cannot even produce 1 tenth the amount of ammunition and weapons as Russia can.
Minsk 2 looks rather good to those Ukrainian retards now,they had their chance now its to be settled on the battlefield.
If the puppet Zion Zelensky had a time machine he’d hop on with all his little pedophile zionazis and return to Minsk 2 and honor those agreements like it was written in gold. The Ukro mafia has literally lost an entire nation because Ukraine has been dismantled in every single way as a country. Russia now has territorial control of the land and black earth that yields 85 percent of Ukraine’s GDP which is the reason why the Ukros are obsessed with retaking the Donbass and the south but its all over now.
“If the puppet Zion Zelensky had a time machine he’d hop on with all his little pedophile zionazis and return to Minsk 2 and honor those agreements like it was written in gold.” Exactly! That’s why he was also elected for president , not to fight the war for the US/NATO , but to make peace with Donbass and save the Ukraine. Not as an american puppet but as an Ukrainian patriot and hero. Now he is an Ukrainian traitor and a piece of sh..
That’s what BoJo said. I’ll bet he’s one happy little camper right now, brushing up on his Churchill imitations. Ha Ha Ha
Aw, c’mon there, Boris. Stiff upper lip and all that. Only half the world wants to draw and quarter you, so far anyway. When you start getting spat at on your own streets, that’s the time to dig yourself a hole like Saddam did.
Russians wanted to kill Zelensky not negotiate. From the other hand – all ruskie pretending here to be ‘concerned Westerners’ – another mobilisation is next week, right? What you gonna do? Run, Wania, run!
All true. What does it infer? But that America’s masters and their vassals don’t have the great intelligence they think they do. They have no historical sense. They repeat themselves like idiots. And let me add, since they control the finances in their own countries (the phony unpayable debt) they are not even money experts! They deindustrialized America for a fistful of dollars more! With the result that unemployment and poverty have increased dramatically. You call them, if you will, great geniuses of the carnival.
It is very funny that there are still people who think that some new weapon system on Ukrop´s side could stop the fight for the independence of DNR and LNR within Ukraine. It’s just an American time game to make as much money as possible on their arms supplies no matter how many Slavic lives it will cost. Russia will definitively liberate these territories from Ukro-Nazism, just as it did more than 70 years ago.
The US and it’ puppets will only accelerate the decline of their economies with this proxy war. Their economic failure is a result of globalist money mad leadership which has gutted their treasuries with an 18th century version of Neo-colonialism with uncontrolled immigration for benefit of the elite. Sound leadership and internal policies must be undertaken rather than an an unjust war that can not be won.
China is watching and learning. When they decide to reunify Taiwan at a time of their choosing, they will know everything they need to know about the weaknesses of AUKUS weapons systems.
Israel has been using GBU-39 in attacks on Syria so the Russian air-defenses should have a good knowledge of how to intercept the target.
Another wonder weapon from the Globohomo will be converted into scrap metal and electronics. We are ready to enjoy the spectacle of the destruction by the best anti aircraft systems in the world.
This is what MSM is pushing right now. reuters etc. which is exactly 100% in reverse to what was said about hitting Moscow asap just yesterday. sooo. We can see Math is not exactly a science in Ukraine nor their strong point.
“2:35pm: Ukraine says it will not strike Russian territory with new missiles
Ukraine will not use longer-range weapons pledged by the United States to hit Russian territory and will only target Russian units in occupied Ukrainian territory, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said.
The United States confirmed on Friday that a new rocket that would double Ukraine’s strike range was included in a $2.175 billion US military aid package to help Kyiv fight back Russian forces.
“We always tell our partners officially that we will not use weapons supplied by foreign partners to fire on Russian territory. We only fire on Russian units on temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory,” Reznikov told reporters at a news conference.”
Reznikov looks like an old Bolshevik. All he needs is a pointed ear muffin hat with a red star, maybe updated with a swastika.
he just got fired for the azov/mercenary bitch stealing money and blackmailing him. too funny, they tried to make it sound like reg everyday biz in soupkraine.