that poor M48 minding own business when suddenly a wild Maverick appears...

I'm having flashbacks to the first Gulf War in Iraq; watching videos of laser guided bombs hitting air shafts, and a BBC video of a Tomahawk coming down the street over the camera crews head and hanging a right turn at the end of the block...

Even if the receiving side have enough air defense to block all or most glide bombs, it's still a good exchange. For every glide bomb to be shot down, it's required as least a missile costing 4-10x that bomb. The exchange rate is not as good as cheap drone vs AA missile but still a good game to take.

There is one little mistake in your video, probably from the confusing mess of naming US- and generally NATO-ammunition. JDAM is the glide kit for Mk.-80 series bombs, not a bomb, JDAM-ER is the variant with a rocket booster to extend the range. So the bombs are: Mk.-82, Mk.-83, Mk.-84, BLU-109, BLU-110, BLU-111 The glide kit without a retrofit rocket booster is: JDAM The glide kit with a retrofit rocket booster is: JDAM-ER

The main attraction of glide/precision kits is that they are cheaper than missiles, also the huge arsenal built up during cold war means the bombs are available making it very cheap and the planes remain safe from SAMs and AAA while lobbing hard to see bombs without dedicated systems

Another Binkov's video that didn't age well??🤔

There was a report of a "Grom" being used just a couple days ago. That's the first confirmed use of it that I'm aware of.

One thing Binkov is minimizing is, in peer v peer war you would be lobbing these from OUTSIDE enemy territory. Shaping operations would take place to push back GBAD & the frontline, while advancing safe(er) airspace further & further. Nevermind stealth (which also works similarly)

The answer is quite obvious from an engineering standpoint: bombs are really dangerous when they hit their target due to the sheer explosive force of the bomb. None of that power means anything if you miss. Anything that makes it easier and safer to reliability and consistently take something like a bomb and deliver it to target accurately is going to almost erase the primary weakness of heavy bombs. You're turning a powerful but somewhat cumbersome weapon into a precision weapon with all of the previous strengths and few of those weaknesses.

Binkov forgot most important breakthrough: cheap, reliable, somewhat accurate solid state INERTIAL measurement units.

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Small diameter glide bombs are terrifying especially with stealth aircraft like the f35.The first version can pen 3 feet of concrete at 69 miles away while the second one can hit non moving targets 69 miles away and moving one 45 miles. 8 of these can fit inside an f35 or 20 in non stealth mode

I think one of the reasons glide bombs are popular is economics - why use larger, more expensive missiles like a Maverick against small ground targets like tanks/APCs when a Small Diameter Bomb can achieve the same result at lower cost? That way, larger ordinance is saved for priority targets.

Don't forget the glsdb - ground launched sdb. As for turbojets being expensive, a rocket boosted ramjet should be cheaper.

This is good. I knew of glide bombs, but hadn't seen a comparison in one place. In a drawn out conflict, I think you have a video about this, glide bombs would play a big role after smart weapons are depleted, especially if the industrial base has been partially destroyed. I'd like to think the Pentagon has plans in place for how to surge glide kits if it ever comes to that.

Glide bombs could bring Zepplins back, as they would only need to maximize vertical altitude and feature some form of launcher to leverage the defensive and offensive capabilities of range. Theyd literally have to go straight up, as cheaply as possible, as far as possible, with as much ordnance as possible.

The SDB was tasked with fitting in the same dimensional space as an AIM-120 AMRAAM so wings was about the only option while still retaining a decent payload.

So is the era of glide bomb kits inevitably limited? Won't new bombs just be built with integrated wings and only the guidance module needs to be swapped in?

Funny thing, your example is the "obsolete" A-10 with a load of 16 GBU-39 bombs ... As well as glide bombs, cruise missiles are a good choice if your enemy does not have long enough range anti-air. Excellent report. You've made several points I have not seen in other sources. Thanks!

It's taking surprisingly long for them to invent glide torpedoes. A weapon equipped with hydroplanes, positively buoyant and released by a submarine at depth against ships.

Kind of makes you wonder why the US retired the AC-130W

Fritz X enters the chat. All aforementioned glidebombs: Hallo, Opa!

I expected the HIMARS launched version to be part of this review. It is the exact same SDB just put into motion by a missile.

I would love to see a video of why Aircraft cannot launch missiles to intercept Sam missiles homing them. It seems to be easier than intercepting missiles (Iron Dome) attacking random targets.

After 5 moths, we can all came to the conclusion that the UMPK cope here didn't come true lol. The western media itself called it a game changer. This is why cope never works despite how professional it is presented

Fantastic show!

This is something I was very curious about

Russia would have to actually use their planes in a strike role for them to matter

How well do glide bombs stand up to AAA fire? In particular from very high rate of fire 20-30mm cannons?

Great presentation

ACME rockets had a Wile E. Coyote guided missile back in the 1950's! They were so far ahead of their time!

10:05 There was a video that was geolocated and confirmed the range of more then 80km.

There is already work to stick glide bombs with rocket boost motors on HIMARS. But this technology is also being worked on for air launched munitions. Basically using the rocket motor as a boost engine so an air craft carrying it can launch it much earlier (so extended the range of the glide bomb) that carriers the weapon to specific height and speed on its own before doing an unpowered glide for its terminal phase. Since it would just be a strap on boost motor, it wouldn't add to the complexity of the weapon. So you preserve the cheaper strap on kit nature of current glide bombs. But you could argue if it then is just missile kit rather than glide bomb kit.

i feel like this could have been a 5 mins video

WRT Glide bombs: does the lack of the engine help hide from thermal sensors? Or does air friction warm the surface enough to be detectable?

one and same manufacturer distributes weapons of different shapes, sizes, colours, and features

It should be noted that air defense ranges are not ao definitive. For example, an air defense system may detect an aircraft 300 km away and its SAM may reach out to 250 km. However, the radar may not be able to track an aircraft till it is within 150 km. Then there is something called the "no escape" zone. If a fighter spots a missile launch early enough, it can turn around and outrun the missile. Within, the no escape zone, the aircraft cannot outrun the missile and will need to evade or use other countermeasures to survive. This no escape zone varies with the missile and aircraft. However, the no escape zone may be only 100 km. If so an attack aircraft can launch a glide bomb outside the no escape zone and then runaway.

Some lower end weapons are surprisingly effective and gaining intrest .having an engine would make it cruise longer and composite shspe more stealth. Clusters and airburst would compensate for any lacknof range and accuracy should it be big enough like the zFab 1500

GPS is jammed in Ukraine.

I wonder how the Hammer that the rafale carry would compare, considering it's a rocket assisted bomb..

You only mention a little bit about Russian glide bombs, but then you emphasize more on US glide bombs for the rest of the video.

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leave it to the Russians to make something on the fly that is crude, but works. Later iterations would smooth out the rough edges and simplfy it even futher.

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RE: The Israeli SPICE 250 bomb shown at 17:25 Q= Is that bar shaped assembly above the 4 bombs; just a carrier- loader structure; or does it have other functions?

well as Ukrainian soldiers commented, the Russian glide bombs are inaccurate however they make it up for blast radius , FAB500 bombs are big so if its a near miss, the shockwave alone is deadly. however from what I hear many miss with a long distance

You forgot to include the MBDAs spear-3 missile. A suggestion from an indian.

if only DCS has enough render range for the agm154, mission targeting with pre mission target cords only gets the first couple targets before everyone moves, leaving the rest in combat maneuvers and a wasted rack. then having to wild weasle the sa's into giving up their location after releasing a couple radar seekers, then having to snake though the valleys to mig trap players coming to defend the target. if only dcs had enough render range to allow for line of sight lol. does make for a fun game tho.

Would you make a video on the laser defenses recently used in Israel? I saw for the first time how beams take out rockets and it was mesmerizing!

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The hound dog might be an interesting section

Have you ever seen a more Russian solution that the UMPK?

Do stormbreaks mingle with stormshadows?

Imagine these in WWII

So... Ivan sips his morning vodka before firing up a welder and a grider to make a dozen bombs from 60's glide and clocks out his shift. Meanwhile a team of US engineers spends thousands of dollars to reinvent the wheel. Sounds about right.

9:47 Is that the Porn hub logo on a JDAM ?

Wow SDB… just wow!

Quite surprised how quickly they corrected accuracy issues and boosted production numbers. Been following RUSI on this and watching videos of strikes, and they seem pretty accurate now. Ukraine military noted they get hit with about 50 of these a day so Russia probably still has to boost manufacturing abilities but man they look not very elegant. I won't give it much for style points that is for sure.

How Russian glide bombs compare to NATO ones? As putin in family guy said "for anything you say i will say something similiar but worse"

I don't see missiles ever being replaced. Glide bombs are just a more accurate bomb at longer ranges. The missile though is a fast attack method for immediate threats. That will keep them in stock until laser weapons are on fighter jets. Basically all a glide bomb is is a way to save a little money on a guided rocket. Honestly a large chunk of the money for guided armaments isn't even in the armament but in the program used to guide it. You don't need to have the latest and greatest electronics for them and you will be wasting money if you did. So companies make money off the proprietary programming of the guidance system. That is why you can build a computer cheaper than having one custom made. Half the cost is in the right to use the windows program.

As guidance technology progresses these sensor packages might show up in expendable "bird dog" drones that leverage position information by passing it to some number of "follow the leader" munitions. Your hobby drone might be able to drop grenades on a tank, but what if you could direct a large bomb or artillery shell to "go where the drone is"? Maybe that's already happening...

When it comes to air defenses, we've learned that whatever weapon you have you get one good shot then your planes and munitions are fair game. This applies to stealth aircraft and stealth missiles. Now as for the russian glide kit, despite being crude it its deadly accurate, like they dont miss. We have seen a more complete and finished kit, but those seem to be intended for newly produced fabs and not the older models in storage

Indian SAAW is also one

Air launched Spike NLOS.

Pretty well done….

Marrick was TV guided

120/month umpk

Gliding Russian tank turrets are all the rage.

The glide bomb knows where it is becuae it knows where it isn't.

Bring back Fritz X

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Look... Not even getting into this discussion but UMPK system was designed just "now" and it was initially made out of "shit and logs" how do we say in Russian. It is too early to compare as the system undergo active development. Also they are dirt cheap and RF has a huge pile of Soviet bombs to upgrade. So finally of course NATO gliding bombs are better "right now", what will happen 1-2 years later - might be another story.

Binkov, can you do a video on Light fighter jets like the F5 or HAL Tejas? I’m curious to hear your take on the utility of them on the modern battlefield

Bro balkan union vs turkey war scenario for Istanbul and cyprus

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Consider integrating the best parts of the ground launched small diameter bomb the BLU-108b or rather three of the Skeets it contains the solid fueled Ramjet from the Ramjet powered Howitzer around and a switchblade 600 to be slowed briefly by a parachute before being deployed from its launch tube it would run off the switchblades Electronics which can include a data link and almost all the sensors you would need for anything else in this combo package it would just send the initial rocket thruster which would probably be bulkier than the ground launched small diameter bomb if it is a partial Ramjet carrying very little solid oxidizer it would weigh in the neighborhood of 600 lb and be almost exactly the length of a sparrow missile thus you could fit the weight of three of them a custom rack under an F-15 missile pylon at least on the E model which routinely carries more than 1500 lb of bombs there. Furthermore I was observing your merchandise store and I am not interested in Plushies with little feets and velvety Exteriors😩 I want lifelike felt Bink off so I can have debates with Bink off face to face I want to have tea with Binkov I want to watch Satellite News of tragedies with Binkov off I have serious political discussions even though he is dot-dot-dot a puppet. Give us life like binkov puppets👍😉 cuz as much as things have grown to suck 😢 lately don't we all deserve a friend like Binkov of Our Own❤

Also, the faster the aircraft/fighter is going, the more range you can get out of the bomb/missile, since the launch speed is so high. It's why Russia is having their fighter pilots fly around 45k to 50k feet and traveling around Mach 1.8 when launching a bomb/missile since Russia is afraid to get anywhere near the battle area because Russia cannot afford to lose the little aircraft that is actually flyable and cannot afford to lose anymore of the somewhat trained pilots Russia does have. Russia has a lot of aircraft,but that doesn't also mean they are all flyable ha. There's a reason why Russia and even China don't release their readiness rates on their aircraft....

i would like to see meteor missile technology being modified into Air to ground missile. just the motor but sensor and warhead is for ground target like fragmentation and anti-tank. Meteor missile motor with SDB 2 seeker and warhead.

I understand that expediency outweighs aesthetics in times of war, but the Russian approach to glide munitions being a conversion kit made from spare metals in a workshop is a perfect illustration of the gulf in quality, resources and expertise between it and the United States. Some might say “beggars can’t be choosers”, but you would have thought one of the world’s supposed military superpowers would be capable of more effective approaches than crude improvisations.

The copium of how this wonder weapon is going to defeat Russia is preety cute

Glide bombs have a low resource cost, whilst missiles with seekers need minerals that are in short supply and subject to international trade sanctions.

Those r Soviet bombs , but russia put wings in them now to help them glide

How far from their recognizable targets are spent UMPK glide bombs found? That should be perfect evidence of how accurate they are. Of course, that means one should establish a broad perimeter and sample all UMPK spent within that perimeter and evaluate the distance from them to military targets in their vicinity. That should get a PhD for somebody at war college.

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Invented by Germany!

"Only real peace can bring us all together" should be replaced with "real peace can only be achieved with a strong military".

It uses GLONASS, which is about half as accurate as GPS. Russia could not afford to fully launch and deploy all the satellites necessary to increase the accuracy of the system.

Circa 1990 I was dating a woman who programmed / coded the flight path for the then new U.S. cruise missiles.

I'm guessing that most of your viewers are in the US and UK. Thanks for using the good old "miles" for distance measurement.

Took one look at those janky, crudely welded together strips of iron on that glide bomb kit and all doubt left my mind that Russia really is the Ork faction.

Right now Israel is using JDAM precision bombs against Hamas to destroy buildings, it's very accurate

Glide Bombs been around since WW1, radio controlled GBs in WW2. The Americans were fielding very sophisticated GBs, Walleye and Maverick during the Vietnam War. The Russians and Chinese were late to the party and the Russian GB have not been accurate.

That UMPK is just one step above stuffing a taxidermy seagull full of high explosive.

do versus videos

Cracking it my german brotha

Might as well use 155mm ramjet artillery

15:54 & 16:30 👌🏼GRAPHICS /Analysis! liked&subscribed👍🏼 OPEN ? you touched on this briefly but curious % ratio glide 💣 shot down in Ukraine for BOTH sides. Seems it would be susceptible to modern air defenses since they're slower easily detectable in range of defensive batteries... WHICH tho' Ukraine continually 💥 Russia just as rapidly replaces. I recall reading once glide bomb strategy best used as swarm tactic thus assume using only 2 or 3 defeats purpose. Curious if F-16 fitted to carry them... 😒 LORD i hope so; Ukraine could use a win.

как мы видим, авиабомбы США успешно справляются с уничтожением мирного населения при этом обладая стоимостью около 35-70 тысяч долларов. Это абсолютно разумная инвестиция, не то что умпк на фаб 500 с его стоимостью в 3 тысячи долларов

stealth is not a thing against net-centric air defense like Russian for example. Re. Grom-2 usage - 128th ukranian brigade awarding ceremony has been bombed using Grom-2 recently, that's at least one known example. Re. UMKP - the video shows it's bias with comments like "cruder" and "possibly not tested". Propaganda piece.

there is no compere to glide bomb