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Last week, for the first time, a Russian guided heavy bomb struck the city of Dnipro, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict. The bomb, believed to be a modified FAB equipped with a rocket motor, traveled an estimated 100–115 kilometers before hitting its target. The Ukrainians warn that if such strikes become frequent, major rear cities like Poltava, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, and Odessa could face a new sustained threat.
This development signals a concerning expansion of Russia’s tactical aviation capabilities. The ability to strike deep into Ukrainian territory with minimal risk suggests that Russian forces have either degraded or bypassed Ukraine’s air defense systems, including the notorious NATO assets like the Patriot, IRIS-T, and other systems. The attack on Dnipro indicates that Russia has achieved a safe operational distance, allowing its aircraft to launch strikes with devastating heavy bombs from beyond the effective range of Ukrainian surface-to-air defenses.
The strike reportedly destroyed a military facility near Dnipro where NATO equipment was being installed, further demonstrating Russia’s intent to disrupt Ukraine’s military logistics.
The bomb used in the Dnipro strike was likely part of Russia’s evolving arsenal of precision-guided munitions. Reports suggest it could be an upgraded version of the UMPK (Unified Gliding and Correction Module) kit, possibly the UMPK-PD variant with extended range. Some analysts explain that Russian heavy FAB bombs have long been pounding the outskirts of Dnipro. While the newly deployed game changer could be the Grom-E1, a rocket-assisted glide bomb derived from the Kh-38 missile, capable of striking targets up to 120 kilometers away.
Russian military correspondents have confirmed the use of rocket-boosted glide bombs, emphasizing that Ukrainian air defenses fail to intercept them. This has raised alarm among Ukrainian analysts, who fear that if these weapons enter mass deployment, heavy strikes on far rear cities could become routine.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has attempted to replicate Russia’s UMPK technology, releasing footage of a domestically modified glide bomb with a claimed range of 60 kilometers. However, doubts remain about its effectiveness, particularly given Ukraine’s reliance on commercial GPS systems vulnerable to Russian electronic warfare. While Western-supplied guided bombs like the JDAM-ER remain in use, their limited availability and susceptibility to jamming reduce their impact compared to Russia’s domestically produced systems.
The growing range of Russian heavy bombs underscores a broader shift in the conflict: Russia is not only expanding its strike range but doing so with increasing precision. While Ukraine fails to adapt its air defenses or secure more robust countermeasures, the threat to its urban and industrial centers grows sharply.
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ukrainians laugh at little vlad!!!
heheheh
how many have laughed all the way to the grave since the 2014 us coup in kiev?
i come here to watch ukrainians laughing themselves to death. how about you?
the world is laughing on tiny jooish green beggar and his western clown allies.
3 years after the start of conflict bomb with 110km range .. meanwhile in 2021 indian gaurav glide bomb range .. 150km
indians are smart but i doubt they’ve come up with any armaments the russians haven’t thought of already.
ok, i checked it out. a very smooth glide bomb. but tested to 100 km with ‘theoretical’ 150 km range from what i could garner.
maybe the indians can fuel their rockets with bath water.
wait, it won’t work.
stank ass indians don’t bathe.
if the indians could get their bombs to be fueled with their slurpees they sell and the rancid sweaty ass crack stench they reek of..they could be a global superpower.
we are now an international joke…crumbling ugly americunt empire will soon not exist
it is rumored that ukrainian general serhiy zaharevych his officers and their western capos were some of the first recipients of russian new and improved extended range rocket guided bombas. kaboom!
kentucky fried chicken kiev.
here’s a good joke: the ruzzian army 🇷🇺=🤡 😆😆😆
what to do when the ukrainian state finally has to settle with some permanent loss of a vast swathe of territory?
they never will, that’s why that so-called state is in a state of panic and not long for this world.
ps: i heard that arestovych claimed that kolomoisky only set up zelensky as a spoiler in the elections, and when it went into second rounds, he was supposed to throw his votes to tymoshenko. but the dumb clucks elected him instead.
i think tymoshenko would have settled this thing long ago, so ukrainians got the fool they deserve with zelensky.
homo americunt cannot afford prozac must buy fentanyl from taliban therapist
as russia humiliates inferior americunts their feminized hysteria more enjoyable
after i put on lipstick went to local gay bar swallowed jizz sniff glue consume prozac i come to sf cuz i am loser americunt masochist
still yet to blow up the bridges crossing the dnieper for whatever reason..
“we can’t do without west’s help”: ukrainian armed forces general believes ukrainian army is unable to stop russian armed forces’ offensive alone”
topwar
what they haven’t figured out yet is that ukraine is yesterday’s news. just an albatross around the west’s neck now and they’re looking for a nice quite place to dump it without looking like fools. i say it’s too late for that but you know western hubris. it’s an emotional concept and never accompanied by intelligence.
agreed rrp, ukraine is the “gift” that unfortunately keeps on giving, prepare a noose or 200…
basically the defeat of ukraine is actually the defeat of nato’s land based, combined, multilayered, missile defense umbrella, the most advanced & most expensive one in human history. the russians did it alone while under most restrictive us/eu sanctions. war will be much worse against china in the taiwan straits using shipborne air defense thousands of miles away from their resupply ports. the us navy will be kaput if it goes against china in their own turf
macaroon desperately calls putin to beg—told rus do not appease vichy nazi