A B-52 Stratofortress, assigned to the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., prepares for an operational demonstration of the Quickstrike-ER (QS-ER) Naval mine project at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 28, 219. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Heather Redman)
Kiev forces dropped a bomb with the American-made Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) guidance kit on the area of Kurdyumovka near Artyomovsk city, also known as Bakhmut, in the Donetsk to test the possibility of employing it from Soviet-made fighter jets, Yan Gagin, military-political expert and adviser to the acting Donetsk People’s Republic head, told TASS on March 10.
“These are air-launched bombs. Originally, they were made for NATO aircraft. Ukraine has no such aircraft. We believe that this could have been a combat test with a non-standard carrier. This can apply, in particular, to MiG-29 multirole fighters,” he said.
The United States announced sending “precision aerial munitions” to Kiev forces last December. Earlier this week, Chief of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, General James Hecker, confirmed that JDAM-ER GBU-62 bombs have been already delivered to Ukraine.
The JDAM-ER kit consists of a tail with a GPS-assisted inertial navigation guidance system and a pair of foldable wings that aid the bomb in gliding toward the designated target with a range of up to 80 kilometers.
The only known variant of the GBU-62 appears to be the GBU-62(V)1/B Quickstrike-ER, which combines the JDAM-ER kit with the 2,000-pound [907-kg] class Mk 64 Quickstrike naval mine. The mines, which are based on the Mk 80-series bombs, can’t be used as general-purpose munitions. Ukraine may have received a special variant with that ability.
The Ukrainian Air Force may have integrated the JDAM-ER on its MiG-29 fighter jets, as Gagin has suggested. Other possible options are the Su-27 fighter jets, Su-24 tactical bombers and even Su-25 close air support jets.
Last year, Kiev integrated the U.S.-made AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missiles onto its MiG-29 and Su-27 fighter jets. However, the missile performed poorly.
The U.S. decision to supply the JDAM-ER was meant to provide Kiev forces with a more flexible long-range weapon that packs a heavy punch.
The JDAM-ER bombs are highly effective. However, Ukrainian pilots will have to release them from high altitudes, which would leave them exposed to Russian anti-aircraft fire. In addition, the bombs’ guidance system is vulnerable to electronic warfare.
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Biden family, do you know the Trotsky Stalin’s tale?
Putin already has promised those bombshells will be transformed to swimmingpools just like his.
You belong to Biden’s family. Your problem it’s, in the end, something will be exterminated.
How did it get the height required to launch without getting picked up and targetted immediately
Another silly one. When You attack as well as defence, You of course optimize. Its a risk calcultion.
You seemes to be one of those many here, where are learned to believe the Russians is overwhelming strong and threfore protected by “immidiatly”.
The has to find the 40 km away jet or the flying bomb.
Ukras are no stupid sittin ducks. In the other hand it somehow might be easy targets.
After a year You still dont get it. Parts of the Ukra territory is heavy defended and also kept in the dark.
Probably yet another story concocted by hohol agitation who are pretending to be in NATO.
because it was launched in Poland. This is why Poland should be nuked asap
The problem about Jews is that they never were Mongols.
Awwww yet another inbred faggy muzlim. Not a day without a Jew cock in your ass, no?
Already some Black Americans mercenaries at Wagner PMC killing Nazis! They volunteered to fight against Ukrainian Nazis and White Supremacists.
Niggers in Donbas? Put down that joint, faggot 😆
there are Blacks on Wagner. For example one from Tanzania. The company itself is very active in the African continent, specially in the CAR, liberating the natives from the French oppression
From Veteranstoday magazine: “In western Ukraine, the Russian hypersonic missile Kinzhal struck an 80-meter-deep bunker. The RF believes this bunker near Lvov was a NATO strategic command point used to control anti-aircraft systems. It’s still early to confirm the information, but the RF assumes there were up to 300 personnel in the bunker, 40 of whom were high-ranking foreign specialists (NATO officers); hence, we can expect 40 body bags to be heading west in due course. Unconfirmed reports state that in the Nikolaev region, the RF destroyed four senior militants and a number of officers and planners.”
Well, it’s a bit overoptimistic as result claimed, you don’t think?
After the last Ukrainian MIA or KIA, it will be high time to… (and I quote Zelensky) “-send American sons and daughters to the grinding fields” – So, last ukra’s dead -American sons and daughters next!!!
send them all to Zelensky
Ako radila Čína, je čas sa zobudiť a začať konať. Je na RF či sa rozhodne tak, alebo onak, ale mali by začať dávať dolu západné satelity!!! Tie sú legitímnymi cieľmi nakoľko navádzajú zbrane, zbraňové systémy a ich muníciu na ciele v ruských jednotkách. A toto je už neprípustné!!!
The JDAM-ER bombs are highly effective. However, Ukrainian pilots will have to release them from high altitudes, which would leave them exposed to Russian anti-aircraft fire. In addition, the bombs’ guidance system is vulnerable to electronic warfare.
So in fact, if Russians have good air defense in good places these bombs are just trash and obsolete to use them. JDAM bombs indeed are being dropped from higher altitudes, if the Neo-Nazis use jets at high altitudes they will get shot down, and Electronic Warfare systems that Russia has been all over the place, these bombs are suitable to be used on terrorist areas where there is not sophisticated air-defense.
after 46 years copulating w mulatto poko molo has granted me honorary mulatto medal since my skin is now shitty
So we won. What, not yet?! Jesus, are we waiting for resurraction or what?
Russia take an eye on the sky, specialy from the sea. The only way a nazi plane can get high altitude is from the black sea and flanked by nato planes. Probably the plane will take off from Romania and flanked by nato planes come to just out off teritorial borders and send the bomb to Crimea or your seaport. You need air patrol on the black sea territorial borders.
I am a retarded that has zero creativity that’s why I repeat myself each and everyday with the same bullshit spam lines that everybody already saw. I am a boring incel who has nothing better to do than to be a boring broken record.