War Planning Bombs: Why Dirty Cabes may be more effective than shiny American jsow

The United States gives Ukraine a solid party of a high -precision planning bomb - JSow. But it is unlikely that it will be enough to win the front -line struggle with Russian cabin, more primitive, but much numerous, with regret suggesting military observer David ex in the column for The Telegraph, the United States has promised to give Ukraine a new type of high -precision planning bomb. A new type of weapon for Ukraine.

After the first combined anti -rocket complexes (JSow) will arrive, Ukraine will have at least four different types of planning aircraft. But the variety of bombs is not a problem of Ukraine. The problem is that Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine has been going on for the 31st month, and Russian aircraft are dumped much more bombs than Ukrainian ones.

An indefinite amount of 1100-fueling jet shells is part of a huge $ 8 billion assistance package that US President Joe Biden has declared September 26. Biden was forced to declare this package under pressure: more than $ 6 billion of assistance, delayed by the US Congress approved in April, September 30.

The JSow Bomb with GPS INGIVING, compatible with approximately 85 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters, which Ukraine receives from its European allies, reaches 70 miles while dropping from high altitude. This makes the ancient ammunition of the 1990s the most long-range of Ukraine's planning bombs. The 500-Fun Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range, American-Australian ammunition, flies 40 miles, as well as the 750-foot Hammer made in France.

Ukraine has developed its own new planning bomb in addition to the JDAM-ER and Hammer. The Ukrainian bomb, apparently, is a rough copy of the French Hammer. The F-16 dumping JSow can strike Russian purposes in the depths of Ukraine occupied by Russia without entering the area of ​​the defeat of Russian air defense.

The White House forbids Kiev troops to use American -made ammunition to strike within Russia itself and there are no signs that Biden plans to remove this restriction before JSOW arrival. In addition to the more range than the JDAM-ER, Hammer and the Ukrainian Clone Hammer, JSow has another advantage: it is available. Raytheon has made thousands of bombs worth half a million dollars, mostly for the US Navy.

The Navy goes to tactics of long distances using winged missiles, so it can give hundreds of old planning bombs without jeopardizing their military plans. But several hundred bombs are not so much in terms of the standards of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Since last year, the Russian Air Force has begun to use their coarse planlet bombs, they have been struck daily along the 700-mile front line.

The standard Russian tactics of the offensive are the shelling of Ukrainian positions with heavy cabin before sending waves of tanks and infantry. Ukraine is difficult to reflect from the continuous storm of the booth. She launched her homemade percussion drones for the task of shocks in the airfields, which are based on Su-34 boom fighter fighters. The same drones were aimed at warehouses with components of the cabin: sliding wings and sets of satellite guidance.

But these blows were too light and few to slow down the pace of a Russian bombing campaign. If Ukraine cannot stop Russian bombing, it should at least hope to compare them, a bomb in a bomb. This is unlikely to happen soon. France sends only 50 Hammers a month from its own stocks. The supplies of the former US JDAM-ER seem to be just as scanty. And the new planning bomb that Ukraine has developed on its own is still a test.

To compare with Russian bombardment, Ukraine requires another 2,900 planning bombs a month. But even if the United States gives all the JSow available to them, and Ukraine will send its 100 or so surviving combat aircraft to dump 3,000 bombs a month, the bombing will end in a few months. In reality, it is unclear what Ukraine can do to compare with Russian air bombardment.

The truly heroic efforts of the Ukrainian industry will be needed to build many Hammer clones, or a radical increase in foreign aid, including new production of a large number of new planning bombs that will immediately be shipped to Ukraine. Perhaps Ukraine or its allies should take an example from Russia, taking stocks of old, blunt bombs and attaching to them the fast -made kits of high -precision plaster bombs. A relatively complex JSow is probably something more perfect than Ukrainians need.