On November 26, Radio Fresh released a photo showing a Russian Su-34 warplane dropping what appears to be a satellite-guided KAB-500S-E bomb on a terrorist position in southern Idlib.
The pinpoint Russian airstrike targeted the northern outskirt of the town of Hizareen, which is a stronghold of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Click to see full-size image. Source: fresh-syria.net
Click to see full-size image. Source: fresh-syria.net
Developed by JSC Tactical Missiles Corporation (KTRV), the KAB-500S-E is guided by an inertial navigation system (INS) aided by a Kompas PSN-2001 satellite receiver that can use 24 Glonass and GPS channels. The bomb’s circular error probable (CEP) is 7 to 12 meters only.
The Kab-500S-E was designed to destroy targets in harbors, industrial facilities and depots. The bomb’s 195 kg warhead uses an impact fuse with three programmable modes.
Russian Su-34 dropping a KAB-500S-E on a terrorist position in Syria in 2016.
Last week, a Russian Su-34 was spotted targeting a terrorist position in southern Idlib with a laser-guided KAB–1500LG bomb.
Such precision-guided munitions help minimizing the risk to civilians in the battlefield, especially in areas like Idlib, where terrorist groups are actively storing ammo and weapons in urban areas.
VVS have been doing this since 2015, nothing new here.
VVS?
Sputin?
VVS, Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily, is the Russian Aerospace Forces, like RAF or USAF. The “BBC” on the ariframes is cyrillic for VVS.
Bad times to be a “Moderate head chopper”.