The US " Washington Post " quoted some senior officials in the country as saying that the US White House plans to supply Ukraine with some equipment that converts non-guided aviation ammunition into "smart bombs". It is said that the advanced equipment planned to transport to Ukraine this time can not only convert non-guided aviation ammunition into "smart bombs", but also attack Russian military positions with high precision.
For this reason, Russian media believes that although it is not clear whether the plan has been approved by US President Biden , and senior US officials who disclosed the news to the outside world did not explain which weapon these "smart bombs" will be used, but according to the previous note issued by Russia to NATO countries, including the United States, as long as the United States dares to transport such weapons to Ukraine, they will immediately become the legal targets of Russia's attack.
Objectively speaking, since the media have been hyping up the news that the United States has supplied Patriot anti-missile system to Ukraine recently, the outside world does not seem to pay much attention to this news revealed by senior American officials "inadvertently". Not only that, even professionals, including many military fans, cannot understand this news very well. They believe that in the current situation where Ukraine lacks necessary aviation equipment, it seems that the United States' supply of these so-called "smart bombs" to Ukraine is unnecessary, because in theory they cannot pose too much threat to the Russian army. Is this true?
In fact, if you read this message carefully, many people may find that the United States supplies Ukraine this time not just an advanced ammunition, but a (launch) device that can convert non-guided aviation ammunition into "smart bombs"!
In other words, the United States is also very clear about the current situation of the Ukrainian aviation force, so it provides it with this kind of equipment that can convert non-guided aviation ammunition into "smart bombs". In other words, the ammunition or equipment currently planned to supply to Ukraine is likely to not require air shooting, and direct launch from the ground can accurately strike Russian positions!
Seeing this, some people may question it. As Russian military expert Alexei Leonkov recently told the media, if the United States tries to use its B61-12 smart bomb to replace the Ukrainian aviation bomb , then this will not only be a very expensive and time-consuming process, but they are unlikely to bring tangible benefits to the Ukrainian army in the end! It is obvious that even Russian military experts now believe that the "smart bomb" here is an aviation weapon.
However, in fact, those who are concerned about the development of American weapons may know that the United States Boeing and Swedish Saab not only completed the third test of the "land-based small-diameter guided bomb" system at the Andean Andoya test site in Norway as early as 2019, but the two companies later believed that the land-based launch "bomb" (SDB) could enter the production stage.
At the same time, Gregan Johnson, head of the ballistic weapons branch of Sweden Saab, also said in an interview that this kind of "land-based intelligent bomb" will be very likely to provide epoch-making long-range strike capabilities for armed forces around the world in the future! In summary, according to the "land-based small diameter guided bomb" tests of the US Boeing and Swedish Saab in 2019, this weapon has three characteristics in total. First of all, it must be improved or developed by aviation weapons.
Since it is the cooperation between the two military aviation giants of Boeing in the United States and Saab in Sweden, the weapons they designed are theoretically likely to be related to the aircraft, which is also the main reason why the "land-based small-diameter guided bomb" uses guided rocket warheads. In addition, depending on the appearance, it is basically like a " air-to-air missile " with small wings.
Secondly, there is the word "land-based", which basically indicates the launch method of the ammunition, that is, it is similar to the rocket launch system, adopts a land-based box-type or tube-type launch structure, and has volley-firing performance.Finally, it is called "intelligence". It is said that the "land-based small-diameter guided bomb" uses rocket long-range propulsion and combat part gliding technology, and also adopts a composite guidance system including satellites, mmWave radar and lasers, and its accuracy even reaches the decimeter level.
Not only that, Boeing in the United States and Saab Sweden also equipped this "land-based small-diameter guided bomb" with powerful anti-jamming data link and automatic search function. To put it bluntly, the "land-based small-diameter guided bomb" was originally a project applied by the US Army. It originally hoped that the arms company could produce an accurate guided rocket for it that can be fired by Himas or other rocket launcher systems with a range of more than 60 kilometers, but in the end, with the efforts of Boeing and Saab, it obtained an ammunition similar to the "land-based cruise missile".
This ammunition is fired by a land-based rocket launcher system with a maximum range of about 150 kilometers. When rocket engine is pushed to the warhead to about 110 kilometers, the warhead will either directly strike the target, or leave the engine to glide or cruise, and will independently find targets within a radius of 70 kilometers to carry out strikes.
Also, according to Boeing, the United States and Saab, Sweden, the "land-based small diameter guided bomb" is not only very intelligent, and can bypass mountains or other obstacles to attack targets, but also has a very powerful force, which can penetrate reinforced concrete fortifications nearly 1 meter thick. To sum up, the "smart bomb" that the United States plans to supply to Ukraine is likely to be this "land-based small-diameter guided bomb" improved from a non-guided rocket, which is actually a land-based cruise missile with a range of more than 150 kilometers.
is guided by drone . The ammunition can accurately strike fixed or mobile targets; secondly, because it has a certain intelligence, it theoretically can easily avoid the interception of air defense system ; thirdly, the ammunition also has the advantage of dense volley fire, which can be said to be far, accurate, and powerful!
In short, the United States is currently providing Ukraine with this advanced ammunition abnormally, mainly because it is a new weapon that has not experienced actual combat and needs to be tested on the Ukrainian battlefield before it can be mass-installed in the Ukrainian Army. Of course, it can be seen from this action that the United States does not really want the war to end soon, but rather wants to extend the war as much as possible. In other words, NATO, including the United States and most Western countries, are not concerned about whether Ukraine wins or not, but when Russia will be dragged down!
means that if you can’t win or not fight, it’s not considered losing; if you can win but you are exhausted, this is the real loss! This is also the main reason why the United States would rather give Ukraine a "smart bomb" than to delay giving it to "patriots". To put it bluntly, no matter how much the loss is, the main task of the Ukrainian army is to be beaten and consumed!
