The attack effect of the FAB-1500-M54 gliding bomb, pay attention to the height at which a cloud of fire and smoke is formed after the explosion, which is higher than a chimney, estimated to be more than 30 meters high.
1500 kg has such a destructive capacity, imagine what 3000 kg or even 5000 kg, 6000 kg, 9000 kg would look like?
Due to the good use of the 1,500-kilogram gliding bomb in recent months, which not only has a huge destructive power but also greatly improves the safety of the Su-34 fighter-bomber, the Russian army intends to use the gliding component to transform a larger 3,000-kilogram aerial bomb.
According to Russian media reports on March 21, Russian factories began to produce 3-ton super bombs in three shifts.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also said that from February of this year, mass production of the 3-ton aviation explosive bomb FAB-3000 began.
Some time ago, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu saw a modified 3,000-kilogram gliding bomb while inspecting a military factory in Nizhny Novgorod.
The main body of this type of heavy bomb is a high-resistance bomb developed by the Soviet Union at the end of the Great Patriotic War, with a charge of 1400 kg, carried by the Tu-95 or Tu-16 bomber developed in the 1950s, and the later Tu-22 "Blindfold", Tu-26 "Backfire" and Tu-160 can also be mounted, with a maximum throw altitude of 16000 meters, and a gliding speed of 1200 km/h (close to 1220 km/h of Mach 1) after the gliding assembly is installed.
According to the experience of using heavy explosive shells in the war in Afghanistan, the fatal radius of the FAB-3000 shock wave does not exceed 39 meters, but the enemy at a range of 158 meters will bleed from the nose and ears. When the FAB-3000M explodes, the building within a radius of about 35 meters will be completely destroyed.
Seeing this, some military fans may think that the bigger the bomb, the better, because the lethal efficiency is too high, and one is worth several, but judging from the use effect of previous wars after the Gulf War, the use of aerial bombs above 5,000 pounds (less than 2,500 kilograms, one pound is 454 grams) will be greatly limited.
First of all, the adaptability of the equipment is very low, and the tactical bomber cannot carry 3000 kg of high-resistance bombs, and the GBU-28 ground-penetrating bombs mounted by the American F-15E are theoretically low-resistance bombs, which are transformed from 203 mm howitzer barrels, although they weigh 2.3 tons, the body of the bomb is slender, and the take-off on the belly heavy pylons of the F-15E is not affected much.
However, the FAB-3000 is a high-resistance bomb, and the diameter of the bomb is too thick to be mounted on the Su-34, so it can only be placed in the bomb bay of the Tu-16 or other types of strategic bombers.
In addition to the poor adaptability of the equipment, another problem is also caused by being too heavy, that is, the bomber's maneuverability is already poor, and it is even worse after carrying a few 3,000-kilogram aerial bombs, and it is very difficult to overload and penetrate the enemy's air defense network without absolute air supremacy.
There are also 1500 kg gliding bombs with different throwing heights, the attack distance is 60~100 kilometers, and the distance of 3000 kg may be halved, and the throwing height is also higher, but such a large volume of huge objects will be detected by radar outside the throwing distance, even if the carrier aircraft is not intercepted, the probability of interception of giant aerial bombs in gliding will be very high, and modern air defense missiles can easily intercept aircraft with a reflection area of 0.1 square meters.
The FBA-9000 aerial bomb can only be mounted by strategic bombers above the Tu-26 standard.
Some military fans will ask the Russians why they have a soft spot for high-resistance bombs? Because it is short and thick, whether it is a pylon or in the bomb bay, the adaptability of ammunition with a shorter length is better, and if it is a low-resistance bomb hanging on a pylon, it will not be able to scrape the ground when taking off, for example: the GBU-28 bomb is 5.84 meters long, and it can only be mounted on the belly pylon, and it is not easy to arrange it in the bomb bay of the bomber, so most of the time the overweight bomb has to be dropped by a transport plane.
Of course, the enormous destructive power of super-heavy aerial bombs is comparable to that of no other ammunition other than nuclear weapons.
The Russian army's massive use of giant aerial bombs has also inspired our military fans, and it is generally believed that if one day it is necessary to liberate the island in the southeast, giant aerial bombs can also be used, such as for Hengshan command post, Jiashan base... Wait, the attack of the mountain's covered core fortifications... At present, the heaviest aerial bomb of our army is the FAB-3000 imported from the Soviet era, which is carried by the H-6 bomber, but this also has the problem of not obtaining air supremacy as mentioned earlier.
From a technical point of view, our army has 3,000 kg of aerial bombs is enough, and there is no longer a need for larger, because to increase the power of aviation ammunition, one is to improve the accuracy of strikes, this problem has been solved very well by our army, and the other is to increase the power of the charge, 3,000 kilograms of aerial bomb charge of 1,400 kilograms, but this kind of design is very old in the ammunition is TNT, at most it is Black Sokin (the price is more than four times that of TNT, and the power is 1.58 times), and the mainland is the largest producer of the world's most powerful conventional military explosive CL-20, and even the United States has to import the intermediate of the explosive from the mainland, and the power of CL-20 is three times that of TNT, that is to say, our army's 3000 kg of aerial bombs, after loading CL-20, can produce 9000 kilograms of TNT charge of aerial bombs, if it is used in the general type of high 1000 kilograms of aerial bombs The power can reach 3000 kilograms, so our army does not need too heavy aerial bombs, and the light ammunition can also allow the H-6 to carry more, such as carrying 6 1000 kilograms of 1000 kilograms of 1000 kilograms of 1000 kilograms of aircraft bombs equipped with CL-20 explosives, you can attack the 6 main targets。
In short, scientific and technological progress pursues refinement, not stupidity.