Posted on 03/29/2024 1:32:24 PM PDT by Mariner
Russia has used a new type of “glide bomb” to strike civilian targets in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine believes.
The bomb, a heavy “dumb” munition adapted to behave like a cruise missile, killed at least one and injured 19 as it hit apartment blocks in the country’s second largest city. It is the latest evidence of Russia’s changing tactical approach.
“This is something between a guided aerial bomb which they [the Russians] have used recently, and a missile. It’s a flying bomb so to say,” Volodymyr Tymoshko, the regional police chief, said after surveying the damage.
Russia has been dropping Soviet-era bombs retrofitted with wings so they can glide over the front lines to hit targets for more than a year. This enables Russian fighter jets to avoid getting too close to advanced Western air defence systems.
Shorter range “glide bombs” had previously been used on military targets to help Russia make incremental gains on the front lines. But longer range versions like the UMPB D-30 fired at Kharkiv are now hitting civilians.
Oleh Synehubov, the regional governor of Kharkiv, said: “It seems that the Russians decided to test their modified bombs on the residents of the houses.”
Military analysts suggest the bombs are a new configuration. Based on images of shrapnel from Wednesday’s strike, the latest design appears to have a turbo booster fitted to extend its range, a pair of wings to help it glide as well as minor GPS functionality.
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I have a brother that worked on that technology for Raytheon, so we have them too. They strap tail fins and a control device on an old thousand pounder and guide it several miles into a smokestack if needed.
“Hopefully, the Russians will completely disable the electric grid in Kharkiv, force a mass exodus from it and take it over.”
Yeah, they’ve pretty much shut it down at this point, and will finish the job when it makes sense. Hard to see how civilians can then live there. Such a bummer for Ukraine to have to suffer through this horrific Neocon War.
When one is a general, one gets the”died suddenly”.
https://polanddaily24.com/unexpected-death-of-polish-general/news/39524
There will be more “heart attacks”.
How do you now they were actually civilians?
The Ukes have been importing idiot war addicts for quite a while now!
Exactly !
We have had Zeeper clowns on here tell us how bombing the infrastructure of a country is a “war crime”, how invading a country and attempting Regime change is the worst “aggression ever”, that using the military to sever a province and move the border is the worst “anschluss” ever - all done by NATO repeatedly in the last 25 years !
Exactly. The old Kremlin Bolshevik genocide book chapter and verse. What can’t be stolen is destroyed. What free people can’t be subdued are mass murdered.
America Last Populists couldn’t care less about Americans who will lose good energy export jobs should Russia “prevail” and business as usual return between the WEF EU and Putin’s Nazi traited Russia.
From the article -
“... as it hit apartment blocks in the country’s second largest city”
Who lives in apartment buildings? Civilians.
Who deliberately targets apartment buildings? Russia.
Scratch a Russian, find a Mongol.
Is it called the V1?
Absurd nonsense.
Scratch a populist, find a fifth column Quisling.
You are unable to separate the abstract, do-gooder emotion from REAL interests.
So you're on the "do-badder" team, right?
These USA didn’t directly target civilians. Firebomb targets were military and industrial. There’s a difference between collateral and direct targets.
“Who lives in apartment buildings? Civilians”.
Also HAMAS, Hezbollah, PLO, ISIS, IRGC, PIJ, PLF, PFLP, Ansar Al-Islam.
Lots of murderous filth live in apartment buildings, and hospitals, UN buildings, cockroaches are very adaptable.
Yeah right. Waste a bomb on a house.
“So you’re on the “do-badder” team, right? “
Hey, there’s an argument lol
FYI: It’s Realpolitik. Currently known as Realism.
Under your definition of "realpolitick" you would be on the side of the Axis during World War II and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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