The Russian Federation attacks Ukraine with cassette bombs RBC-500: what answer will come up with in the Armed Forces
Russian warships say that this was the first case of discharge of such shells into the territory of Ukraine. RBC-500 was previously afraid to use because of the risk of losing expensive aircraft. Speaker of the head of the Odessa regional administration Serhiy Bratchuk disagrees with this statement. According to him, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had already dumped Bombs RBC-500 into the Odessa region, but then they were without a correction module.
Now the main danger is that in Russia the cassette shells have been reworked, Bratchuk emphasizes. The Russians did not receive a particular advantage on the battlefield after the Bomb Bomb, and in the General Staff of the Armed Forces, they announced the reflection of all land attacks of the invaders in the Donetsk direction. Thin-walled aircraft weighing up to 500 kilograms are available with a removable fault, which is placed on the Su-34 fighter-bombers.
Each subbovitas explodes on its own, and metal balls and other details serve as elements of the lesion. The RBC-500 is dumped from a height of up to 16 kilometers, its container is opened and the ammunition is flying. Depending on the type, the bomb covers the striking elements of up to 8 square kilometers. Ukrainian warships wrote that the Russian bomb is effective against infantry: cassette fragments hit the top down and do not always save deep trenches.
The safest is to stay under the roof during the explosion. The RBC-500 bomb has the following modifications: some bombs are provided with an infrared guide system. It is not yet possible to say that in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation there are as many RBC-500 as standard airbombs Fab-500, which arrive daily in the southern Ukraine, says the focus coordinator of the group "Information Resistance", military expert Alexander Kovalenko.
"The Russians respond to the use of artillery shells with a cassette. We received cassette shells from the United States, and Russian have a serious flight. Therefore, the occupiers began to use bombs with UMPC modules for mass infantry damage," the expert says. Bombs RBC-500 in large numbers in Russian troops will be a problem for the infantry of the Armed Forces. If the shells give good results on the front, they will be used as often as the UAB in the Kherson region.
"It is difficult to catch them, it is necessary to knock down the carrier. Using the complexes of the EB, you can change the bomb flight trajectory with the control module," he said. The remedies can be reprimanded by the Fab-500 bomb 500 meters from Ukrainian positions, but in the case of deviation from the RBC-500 course there will be no similar effect. Disclosure of the bomb will lead to the fact that the sub -erasers will still cover a large area, Kovalenko notes.
Another problem is a controlled module that allows you to dump the RBC-500 at a distance of about 40 kilometers to the target. The fighter does not enter the area of the air defense of the air defense, the director of the information and consulting company Defense Express comments Sergey Zgurets. It is necessary to attack the enemy aviation of anti-aircraft missile complexes.
In the future, the AIM-120 C-8 missiles produced by F-16 fighters will also help and have an air battle at a distance of up to 160 kilometers. In connection with the "innovations" of the Russians will also have to solve the issue of improvement of fortifications, the specialist summed up. We will remind, in early July this year the United States sent artillery ammunition with a cassette component of DPICM.