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Kiev forces have reportedly begun using Bonus artillery cluster rounds against Russian troops in the special military operation zone in Ukraine.
On January 4, Russian sources shared photos showing an undetonated submunition of a Bonus round that was found on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The cluster round was jointly developed by Bofors of Sweden and Nexter of France to provide a long-range, indirect fire, top attack capability against armoured vehicles. The development began in 1985 and the round entered production in the early 1990s.
The Bonus is a 155 mm NATO artillery round that consists of a 47-kilogram heavy artillery projectile containing two autonomous, sensor-fused, fire-and-forget submunitions.
After the submunition is released it opens two winglets. While descending, the submunition rotates, scanning the area below with multi-frequency infrared sensors and LiDAR [laser imaging, detection, and ranging] that compares the detected vehicles with a programmable target database.
When fired from a 52-caliber barrel, a Bonus round can travel up to 35 kilometers before releasing its submunitions. Each submunition is armed with a powerful explosively formed penetrator warhead that is effective against heavy armoured fighting vehicles like main battle tanks.
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Ukraine may have received the Bonus system directly from Sweden and France or from other operators like Norway and Finland, who purchased the round in recent years.
It’s worth noting, that Kiev forces have been already documented using German-made SMArt 155 mm cluster rounds which follow a similar concept. Unlike the Bonus, the submunitions of the SMArt descends on a parachute rather than winglets, and use a millimeter radar for terminal guidance instead of a LiDAR.
The United States and its allies supplied Ukraine with hundreds of NATO-standard 155 mm howitzers after the start of the Russian special operation, which allows Kiev to deploy rounds like the Bouns and SMArt with ease.
Despite receiving much support from its allies, Kiev forces are still struggling to keep up with the sheer fire power of the Russian artillery.
Bofors was bought by US-British oligarchs over 20 years ago, it is no longer Swedish.
From Wikipedia: “In 1999, Saab AB[9] purchased the Celsius Group, then the parent company of Bofors.[10] In September 2000, United Defense Industries (UDI) of the United States acquired Bofors Weapons Systems (the heavy weapons division), while Saab retained the missile interests.
The British company BAE Systems acquired UDI and its Bofors subsidiary in 2005, and BAE Systems Bofors is now a business unit of the Swedish subdivision BAE Systems AB, while the Swedish unit Saab Bofors Dynamics is part of Saab AB.”
This is what happens when you let the Anglo monsters act freely in your country. They indebt everyone, they propagandize everyone, they take control of everything valuable and they fill your country with foreigners and or trick you into wars that destroy you.
Your theory has no merit in reality. In the real world those countries are the most prosperous with the highest population happiness index. So you can whine all you want, people and countries will continue to turn towards the West.
I live here. I know what I am talking about. It is devious and treacherous and subversive creatures such as Perplexer who write these indexes. It is these evil Anglos and their henchmen and facilitators that are the enemy.
Well it is still Swedish, even if true that they are owned by an other country.
Maybe they did this on purpose, just to say that they are not a warring country.
Despite who owns it, they would still make weapons.
Sweden is completely taken over by Anglo Empire. Why do you think I as a Swede support Russia?
All the US vassal scum has crawled out of the swamp,all the EU except Hungary and other euro trash falling over themselves to kill Russians and Russian speakers in Donbass,these munitions will be used against civilians in Donetsk.
Time for the RF to FOAB Kiev
The best countermeasure of that is a russian one like this but with a 1000:1 stock ratio. Also I don’t understand why the fuck russians don’t use the BEST anti-trench and dug-in weapon of all time which is the air burst SHRAPNEL and soft targets submunition !
Precision only comes from guidance. Take away the guidance.
The US, Blighty, Germany, Italy, etc ,etc, have all lost their weapons in Ukraine, so it’s only fair that Sweden and Norway should lose some of theirs.
Norway is sending its arms to the very same groups that Anders Behring Brevik, the nazi nato patsy, used to hang out with online. Maybe the Norwegians don’t give a shit?
Awesome! Russian nazis love cluster bombs 😆😆😆
That all you fuckers can do, is come on here and talk trash, Nazis are being eliminated. Keep on sending them to Bahkmut meat grinder.
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it’s now a consensus here at the forum the the Ukras are the Nazis not the Russians. So fuck off son of a suka
The Bofors BONUS and Excalibur 155mm shells are both developed in Sweden . This is one thing the Swedes are good at like the AT4, NLAW and Carl Gustaf that is also Bofors products. This industry grew from the cold war an swedens then neutrality.
It started when Nazi Germany put its arms industries in “neutral” Sweden so they wouldn’t be bombed.
Nope, Swedish arms industry goes way way back into history. In 19th century Sweden was biggest exporter of cannons, for example. Ultimately it rests on the great iron deposits in Sweden.
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This industry came originally from the 17th century Swedish war state. In second half it was taken over by mining and smithing companies because the art of making high quality metal had surpassed the arts of making cannon. Today however, and since 20 years, it is no longer Swedish. It has been taken over by Anglo oligarchs and the corporations and banks they use to act in the world.
.. In second half of EITEENTH CENTURY it was …
Stop whinging and take the gloves off. Manpads won’t shoot high enough to hit strategic bombers. Do what NATO does.
At the end , sanctions were a ‘relative’ good thing for Russia. The “Marktbereinigung” was imposed from outside, the Russian Government didnt have to force it on its people, it came for free from above. Fäule Äpfel have been flush away the tube auf nimmerwiedersehen. One example? Sure, the corrupted Olis for example who took Russian billions and invested in other countries like London or New York, most of them (incl. Abramovich, Usmanov etc.) decided to leave Russia, good less traitors.
My friend who lives in Russia told me that citibank still there, I asked why and he said -This is a Russian company, it’s called “citibank of Russia” for a good reason. Like ALL foreign companies active in the Russia market , it needs to be registered as a Russian entity, so it’s the same with Burger King and many others. They are Russian companies, ran by Russians, paying Russian taxes. He went further and said, any person in Russia can go to the register office and open a “Macdonalds”, there is nothing in the Russian law to stop it. But the Russian owners of Mc didn’t want to do it, they thought, it’s just a name. The most important for them was not to keep the same name (this alone is not a guarantee for success), but to keep the same or better quality. Und die Rechnung ging auf: Vkusno i Tochko is successful, and even expanding to other countries like for example Belarus.
The difference is that ViT is not paying a Cent of their profit (which is growing) to the former US owners. 100% of the profit stay in Russia and are invested in the local economy. This is how “localization” is supposed to be as opposed to “globalization”. Keep the money in your own country, invest the money in your own people.
Kiev forces are still struggling to keep up with the sheer fire power of the Russian artillery while the Russian army keeps running away with sheer velocity.🤣
More gifts fot the fascist orcs.
Mr. LAVROV said British Navy took part in the planning, provision and implementation of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on September 26 this year – blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,”