How do new Russian glide bombs compare to NATO's glide bombs?

This video explores glide bombs as a concept, and goes in depth on several of the more common models. How do glide bombs compare with regular bombs and missiles in general? And how do US JDAM-ER, SDB and JSOW bombs compare with the likes of Russian ones like GROM 2 and UMPK kits.
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[@7891ph]

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...

[@ewok40k]

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

[@kameronjones7139]

He was just enjoying retirement too

[@AlexTorres-qv3hv]

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

[@nghialekim3539]

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.

[@stevebuckley7788]

Glide bombs can be shot down will radar guided AA guns like Gepard or Shilka. They are "as slow as fuck" and the wings are easily damaged so they are only useful in areas without air defenses. This is why Russia is now able to use them on the front lines in Ukraine whereas they could not at the start of the war.

[@nghialekim3539]

Yes, they can be shot down with radar guided AA guns. But the range those guns can cover is really limited and integrated infrared missile can't target cold missile like glide bombs. You can cover some most important assets, but the rest is undefended. You need radar guided AA missile to effectively block most of glide bombs, which is impratical in term of wallet and stockpile. It's just like how Hamas overwhelmed Israel's Iron Dome recently. Why wouldn't Israek build something like C-RAM to shoot down rocket with cheap price instead of using expensive missile cost 50-100x what it shot down? Simply because the range of gun is very limited.@@stevebuckley7788

[@thinhvcoin]

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

[@piotrd.4850]

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

[@jdogdarkness]

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)

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

Yup. The nation that doesn’t train their pilots for SEAD/DEAD missions is the nation that is going to lose the war.

[@KarlKarpfen]

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

[@iamscoutstfu]

This is incorrect

[@ImBigFloppa]

The JDAM-ER is just a JDAM variant that has a wing kit to glide to the target. The normal JDAMs fly on a ballistic trajectory

[@Archer89201]

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

[@paulpowell4871]

Always a pleasure and a great source of information. A true treasure of the information age! BINKOV!!!!!

[@charlie15627]

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.

[@chaz706]

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.

[@beepboop204]

also: sky divers became squirrel-suited-gliders. coincidence? or the THC in my system? you be the judge

[@kameronjones7139]

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

[@secessionnow4133]

No such thing as stealth aircraft. It’s a lie.

[@willswenson3169]

​@@secessionnow4133or you simply fail to understand what "stealth" means. When someone says "stealth aircraft", what do you envision?

[@SaintFluffySnow]

@kameronjones7139👈❎ USA's pathetically unstealthy "so-called stealth" F22+F35 are relegated to standoff weapons only, because they are easily detected and tracked by air defense systems which would down them out of the air if any dare fly deep into any conflict zone they are both STUCK flying far off in their unstealthy "stand off launch SAFE SPACE" over neutral or friendly skies likewise: ALL of USA's so-called "stealth" bombers (B2+B21), other old F117 aircraft, etc

[@willswenson3169]

​@@SaintFluffySnowstill better than anything Russia or China has fielded.

[@blink182bfsftw]

​@@SaintFluffySnowmight wanna look up how B2 bombers destroyed Iraqi air defenses supplied by Russia

[@Jaxymann]

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.

[@texaspapa9445]

Fantastic show!

[@joblo341]

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!

[@196cupcake]

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.

[@kit888]

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

[@cz1589]

Yep, a missed chance to note it! It will be deployed soon. Range of 150km. And a mass product in time, optional to be delivered by thousands to Ukraine.

[@jameslooker4791]

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.

[@RusselTanTing-kf8zm]

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.

[@JoseTorres-ry9qe]

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.

[@peterh8553]

This is something I was very curious about

[@mhick3333]

Great presentation

[@andrewworth7574]

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.

[@kcharles8857]

I think these (or something very similar) are currently under development. There is an Autonomous Underwater Vessel 'Ghost Shark' designed and built in Australia in the trial stage at the moment. I believe it has a mission specific capability, which would include a high explosive package when needed. Probably not what you had in mind but getting there :)

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

That would increase drag. Slow the torpedo and decrease its range Modern torpedoes maneuver up and down and try to explode underneath a ship

[@andrewworth7574]

@KonradvonHotzendorf no motor, no propeller. It's propelled by the interaction of its initial depth, buoyancy, and hydroplanes in the same way a glide bomb used altitude, weight, and wings. It wouldn't be fast, but it would be extremely quiet and so stealthy. Military submarines almost never use active sonar, relying instead on passive sonar.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

@@andrewworth7574 Oh now I get it That's interesting

[@petergerdes1094]

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?

[@jaimemartinez9792]

These kits are made to be strapped onto an existing dumb bomb, and there are tons of dumb bombs already in existence. Plus we are not going to stop making dumb bombs anytime soon because they are dirt cheap and effective. Although, if we did stop making bombs then I bet a tail kit for a 155 mm artillery round isn't that far behind.

[@cedriceric9730]

It already happened with the sdb

[@justacomment1657]

​@@jaimemartinez9792a tail attachment for an artillery she'll doesn't seem feasible to me. the thing would have to be directly exposed to the propellent detonation... not easy at best

[@JClark2600]

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

[@pac1fic055]

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

[@user-em2eb6bu6t]

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.

[@cedriceric9730]

Sams come in mach 2 and above even mach 5 !! They have ALL the advantage, at best youll be in the greatest defensive dance of your life , maneuvering your aircraft to its very limit! By the time your defensive missile gets up to speed , everything will be OVER

[@Slavic_Goblin]

Oversimplified, SAM missiles are pretty darn fast, and you generally want to your interceptor missile to be faster than the missile being intercepted.

[@ToastyMozart]

Probably because it'd require the pilot to keep the front-facing radar to remain pointed to where it can track the incoming SAMs, which means evasion's going to be nearly impossible if the interceptor misses. That and the matter of saturation, since a bunch of trucks on the ground can carry way more missiles than a fighter jet.

[@kurtwicklund8901]

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.

[@ycplum7062]

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.

[@Native_love]

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

[@jimkeats891]

I'm 100% sure that Mr. Coyote formed Raytheon.

[@TK199999]

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.

[@fortweek_7389]

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

[@firstcynic92]

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

[@Donnnny2010]

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

[@ViceCoin]

GPS is jammed in Ukraine.

[@JimCOsd55]

The more the Ukrainians rely on GPS, the more the Russians try to jam GPS-and the more the Ukrainians target the jammers. In the 21 months since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces have destroyed at least four dozen Russian jamming systems, each of which might cost tens of millions of dollars.

[@bombarderoazul]

Russia has their own gps called Glonass

[@guillermoelenes7252]

GPS can be jammed with a hand held device.... do some research dude@@JimCOsd55

[@override367]

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

[@auro1986]

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

[@kennethng8346]

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?

[@goodiezgrigis]

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.

[@kailiciousthumbsup]

And said wheel will be bested by either iran,the taliban ,iraqies the list goes on

[@conqueror_the_based]

@@kailiciousthumbsupbetter than 3-d world countries? What a cope 😂

[@TheWizardGamez]

Proven reliability, standardization making swap outs and field repairs easy, and most of all, scale. While Russia is just now employing in a serious manner PGMs, we’ve been using them for 20+ years now in high numbers. Jamming? Yeah, we built inertial navigation in. You can’t trick the bomb.

[@farright118]

i feel like this could have been a 5 mins video

[@ramonjr.deluna9584]

Marketing strategy by binkoff the frog.

[@TimberStiffy_]

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.

[@PetrOsetr]

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.

[@tkzsfen]

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!

[@DanielNotWise]

Cause it fake and old vids from 2019. AA's smoke tails look like lazer bims in explosion's blinks

[@Chuck_Hooks]

Gliding Russian tank turrets are all the rage.

[@Gstyle1]

I prefer the glorious Leopard 2 space program 😂

[@baumistlustig]

@@Gstyle1at least crew survives

[@swell07_]

so sick of this dumb jingoist american meme and i am an american veteran ffs stfu

[@Chuck_Hooks]

@@Gstyle1 Russian tank crews get more flight time than Russian pilots do.

[@tjb8104]

​​@@Gstyle1 imagine that actually made sense 😂 Russian crap is a 2 in 1 tank and crematorium

[@mhick3333]

The hound dog might be an interesting section

[@nemesis7774]

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

[@someguydino6770]

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?

[@Zlorthishen]

i bought your plushy, my cats are sure to ignore it

[@trogdortpennypacker6160]

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.

[@johnfrost1814]

As a Russian speaker, I have to say that all pro-Russian community has shitted the UMPK at first, all the criticism that UMPK got was deserved. After some time, one of the engineers that worked for similar project in the 2010s released some parts of documents related to this, opening a new round of discussion about corruption, clientilism, negative-selection and so on. So in the end, all they got was the bomb that was not nearly as good as it should have been in the 2010s. I remember reading a ton of criticism regarding the wings, material used, bomb caliber, bomb holders, tactics regarding how to use the bomb, problems regarding Russian JTACs (ПАН- Передовой Авиа-Наводчик), and on and on. However, in the end we see a constant usage. A lot of people who are related with the army/topic were deeply unsatisfied however, they said that the UMPK was better than nothing. I know that the best course for me would be to provide sources, but I really can not recall which Telegram channels I got all the info. But I can still point out some of them where some amount of discussion was hold, fighter bomber and voenacher. These are pro-Russian channels and I would suggest anybody reading their content to take all of the info with a great amount of salt.

[@tsugumorihoney2288]

@@johnfrost1814 yeah but UMPK just attached to bomb... it is not Bomb, it is only container which attached to bomb to make it gliding bomb

[@johnfrost1814]

@@tsugumorihoney2288 yeah I know, it's a correction kit.

[@al1sa920]

@@johnfrost1814 не сказал бы. Самое первое фото УМПК на бомбе с нарисованным лицом все на лостарморе, в т.ч. я, посчитали большим началом. И, как показало время, были правы

[@looinrims]

We love kabooms

[@beepboop204]

as a Canadian we have to vicariously live through the kabooms of others

[@vehx9316]

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.

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

By further iterations you mean they will finally unlock the basic tech in the tech tree for “Industrial Manufacturing” The rest of the civilizations in the match already unlocked that one 150 years ago.

[@victorzvyagintsev1325]

@@PeterMuskrat6968 What makes you think this is not mass-produced? You think the target cares how pretty the kit on the bomb is?

[@johnwalsh4857]

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

[@DanielNotWise]

Well anything what one side is reporting about the other side of this war is propaganda bullshit.

[@super-cat4781]

Of course, the Ukrainian considered it inaccurate, because whoever sees it is already dead.

[@DumRock1]

i see many videos that this bomb pretty accurate

[@Nealetony]

Do stormbreaks mingle with stormshadows?

[@willisfernandes2366]

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

[@JamesCAlien]

A Missle has propellenant,don't it

[@deven6518]

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

[@xtradi]

Cheap weapon is key in winning attrition war. The only other way to win is more effective weapons, but that's hard for near peer opponents

[@MaxCroat]

@@xtradi The key in winning an attrition war is having a lot of those weapons. That is much more important than the price tag. The weapon being cheap is only important when it means you can produce a lot of it quickly. So, in the case of Russia and Ukraine, making cheap weapons could be very beneficial for Russia, but probably a lot less for Ukraine, since Ukraine doesn't really have the military industry to make large numbers of anything. Because of this they rely heavily on imported weapons, whereas Russia almost exclusively produces their weapons themselves, thus benefitting much more from having a cheap and/or simple weapon to manufacture.

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

"Deadly accurate" lololol, especially for "like they don't miss" lmaooo. I'm not saying the russian glide bombs are terrible like some people, but there's literally dozens of videos out there where they miss their obvious targets by hundreds of feet (which may be ok, depending on target/bomb). However, there's an even larger amount of videos where they hit very approximately their intended targets... so they're not completely terrible. BUT, to call them "deadly accurate, like they dont miss" is a ridiculous overstatement of their capability. If we're being honest, the russian glide bombs are "okay"... not great or even good, but certainly not terrible or bad.

[@MaxCroat]

@@user-xp5id1kh4r Maybe those videos weren't of glide bombs, but of regular unguided bombs. Sure, these Russian glide bombs may not be as accurate as western ones, I don't know, but realistically in this day and age it is a pretty simple weapon to manufacture to be pretty accurate. Your phone's GPS is accurate to within a few meters. And when you have a 500kg bomb, you can afford to miss by quite a bit more than few meters.

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

No, they literally said glide bomb/kit in the titles, lol. But, I agree that its not "that" hard to manufacture a decent clip-on guidance kit for a dumb bomb... however, especially with how "rough"/ ghetto/ backyard/ garage/ redneck/ McGyvered the Russian glide bombs look (and how quickly they were designed/fielded): it is much more believable that the inter-unit RELIABILITY is HIGHLY VARIABLE, which would lead to the plethora of videos showing obvious misses while others showing fairly "pinpoint" accuracy.@@MaxCroat

[@danpatterson8009]

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...

[@jonathanpfeffer3716]

Is already happening, sensor fused drones employing loitering munitions is basically what you describe. There are some cool videos on drone swarms that might interest you, they’re surprisingly old.

[@peterparadis6788]

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

[@dmaggio4011]

Pretty well done….

[@demiller74]

Wow SDB… just wow!

[@svinche2]

The only problem with GBU-39SDB is that in order to reach some decent range, producer sacrifice its payload, so destructive power is very very low, (there are 3 type of warheads available : 93kg (with 16kg of explosive), 62kg and 16kg for Laser SDB (GBU-39B/B) ) Now compare that with FAB-1500M46 UMPK,which is a 1500Kg Bomb with warhead weighting 1120kg and filled with almost of 700kg of explosive !!!

[@dominuslogik484]

@@svinche2 the JDAM-ER has similar range to the GBU-39SDB but it is for much larger bombs such as the 2,000 pound bomb and has proven exceptionally accurate as well.

[@jonathanpfeffer3716]

@@svinche2it’s also way way smaller and lighter than the FAB.

[@svinche2]

@@dominuslogik484 JDAM-ER have many variants, but for 2000 pound GBU‐31 JDAM (based on Mark 84 bomb) the range is very modest compared with lighter variants, of just 15+ miles or 24 km.

[@dominuslogik484]

@@svinche2 everywhere I am seeing shows a range of 45 miles so please tell me where you are getting the 15 mile range estimate from.

[@Blueblue7]

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

[@petrsukenik9266]

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"

[@london_james]

Imagine these in WWII

[@jarink1]

No need to imagine it, they existed on both sides.

[@london_james]

@@jarink1 oh cool. I'll do some reading

[@ToastyMozart]

They were around, albeit without (decent) guidance systems.

[@Bebbsy40]

Hello!

[@franzxaverjosephconradgraf6850]

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

[@placeholder4819]

Лахтаны уже походу даже не смотрят название видоса под которым свой шаблоный текст вставляют

[@sillysad3198]

@@placeholder4819 anaxuja?

[@megamind1359]

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❤

[@hiddentruth1982]

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.

[@Slavic_Goblin]

Even when lasers come, missiles and glide bombs will still be a thing.

[@inteallsviktigt]

Well the NeXT step is wings on a missile

[@hiddentruth1982]

@@inteallsviktigt pretty sure they already have those. just did a quick search and yeah they have those. Seems they have had those since the 60's except they are much bigger than a standard anti air missile.

[@justacomment1657]

the warhead on a glide bomb is much bigger then that of a missile..

[@MauiWowie51]

Bring back Fritz X

[@nikunjkhanna4260]

Indian SAAW is also one

[@GlenCychosz]

Air launched Spike NLOS.

[@Jaxymann]

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.

[@123456qwful]

This is more on the gov being cheap and unwilling to invest more then they want to in a weapon system, side it clear that the Russian have a large surplus of old soviet unguided bombs and due to war time measure and sanction it probably be easier to just due this way then having to source material from an already difficult and costly a microchip from a sanction market

[@ex0duzz]

You are talking about economics, not technological ability. Russia obviously isn't an economic superpower like USA or China. If they had 10x the economy as well as manpower they too could "look good" and not rely on ad hoc methods. But everyone in war rely on ad hoc methods. That is war. You use what works. The alternative is dying or not being able to hit back. Time is of the essence.

[@Slavic_Goblin]

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.

[@Slavic_Goblin]

@@ex0duzz I think it's more that they could set up a production line that would make nice sleek looking ones and get them in a relevant amount in a year, or set up a workshop and get them within a month. Considering early failure rates, troubleshooting was probably done on the battlefield.

[@user-si8mr1zi4s]

Bro balkan union vs turkey war scenario for Istanbul and cyprus

[@ALTINSEA1]

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.

[@chiron13]

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

[@0El_Presidente0]

Looks like watermark

[@super1or1ty]

120/month umpk

[@Svip_dk]

Marrick was TV guided

[@PsyTechnical]

Maverick has laser, TV, and IR guided variants.

[@Ken_Koonz]

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

[@nexpro6118]

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....

[@davidshapiro292]

I saw the readiness rate if the F35 to be around 20-30%.

[@nexpro6118]

@@davidshapiro292 it's up to, 52% right now. But yeah, the readiness rates for some US aircraft is low because the US has a massively high standards in maintaining aircraft

[@_lo8241]

Even taking your lowest estimate of 20% that’s still over a hundred F-35s, how many 5th Gen fighters will they have to compete against? 10?

[@davidshapiro292]

@@_lo8241 They are competing with S400

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

The S400 obviously isn't competing as advertised. Nor has any other piece of Russian air defense. Not that it matters though, because the 2 will almost certainly never meet up.@@davidshapiro292

[@george1737]

Bla bla bla and the channel is professional, Russia is weak, nato and usa has top tech but somehow the weak is winning both economically and militarily hahaha go and wash after pho.

[@aymonfoxc1442]

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

[@GlitchGameryoutube]

Hey look it’s….

[@turnback9866]

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

[@jamisonmaguire4398]

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

[@scene2much]

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.

[@isstechnz1021]

A1 information 👍👍👍👍👍

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

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.

[@aymonfoxc1442]

Many Russian and Iranian weapons use GPS... which is ironic.

[@stevebuckley7788]

Seriously no. GLONASS uses a much better algorithm and can be assisted by ground based stations. The technology in GPS was designed in the 1970s so of course the GLONASS (and EU Galileo) navigation system is superior.

[@antonschollum3128]

Cracking it my german brotha

[@1badjesus401]

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.

[@scottt5521]

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

[@theidioticgentleman4646]

UK use metric now you goose

[@benoithudson7235]

Aviation is also weird with units, lots of nautical miles and statute miles.

[@justacomment1657]

what miles are we talking about? land or sea miles?

[@TRADERJEJ]

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

[@nerdomania24]

fake

[@DeWellstein]

are you a nigerian prince?

[@sillysad3198]

nice one, fed!

[@loganwolfram4216]

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.

[@beepboop204]

40k?

[@piotrd.4850]

Indeed they are [..] The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! *We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude.* [..]

[@Vandelberger]

Oi, Humie, do not cumpare mi Boyz to der Ruskie Gaurdzmen.

[@NorbMit]

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.

[@moldypotato4656]

The UMKP kit is visibly crude in terms of its construction and assembly. The time frame between its first appearance in 2023 and its first confirmed use also suggests its construction was rushed in order to quickly meet the needs of the battlefield in Ukraine. The JDAM and the JDAM-ER are both products of the late 90's and early 00's with many more years of R&D and well-established production lines with purpose-built facilities. Stating the UMKP may not be as well built or as thoroughly tested is not propaganda, it's simply an inference based on available information.

[@NorbMit]

@@moldypotato4656 "crude" is subjective term, same as "sophisticated". the kit is clearly working very well, and to get it employed on the battlefield it gets thoroughly tested. To state otherwise is to show your bias and lack of knowledge of how things done in Russia.

[@voidtempering8700]

​@@NorbMitWe both clearly know how the words are being used here. And the point stands that they are crude and unsophisticated, them being used does change that fact.

[@NorbMit]

as I stated above, "crude" and "unsophisticated" are subjective terms. @@voidtempering8700

[@ImBigFloppa]

@@NorbMit Crude - constructed in a rudimentary or makeshift way. No paint, poor welds. Not aerodynamic. It's all made with hand tools. It couldn't get any more crude than that.

[@TheEarl777]

How bout a hypersonic podcast next??? Oh yeah !!! Not many candidates for that podcast aye.

[@CaptainSmithay]

Podcast?

[@brookwhiteman9810]

Kinzhel isn't even a true hyoersonic and it's literally the same weapon as the skybolt that was made in the 50s. It's just a fast ballistic missiles which is why the patriot had no struggle taking it down and Russia has basically never used it since. Once again a shit weapon with a cool name. And oh how's the S400 doing considering it couldn't down a missile built in the 80s that isn't even in service anymore. I'll fill you in. Russia lost 14 helicopters to that missile then yesterday Russia confirmed that they lost 3 S400s to the same missile in Luhansk hahahaha. Awwwww poor little vatnik.

[@haythemsandel8303]

@@brookwhiteman9810 cope stories

[@googleplex1589]

@@brookwhiteman9810 This is a misconception of kinzhal, it and iskander change path in ballistic flight they are made to just slightly change the trajectory and as a result a target trajectory can not be calculated, If you go see the ukranian photo you can see it resembles a betab 500shp bunker buster, the one in crimea has extended rivets outside, while ukraine's object has flat as hell rivet places. moreover you can note a ring in the one in crimea and is missing in ukrainian photos and thus we conclude this is not a kinzhal. To add more, the russian photo was severely darker in colour and much thinner than the silvery thin ukranian betab bomb. Symmetry also tops it off. And the pic which shows a unitary warhead is edited and they literally say that. As for 80's the american one doesn't change path and if it does, it would be stupid for america to get rid of it. and for the S-400, we have seen a spam in missiles and drone to take the radar's out, but the s 400 doesn't scan low and needs SHORADs but these weren't there. If ukraine is so strong why are they failing in pushing the russians out???

[@moldypotato4656]

​@@googleplex1589 Ukraine hasn't pushed Russia out because Ukraine's military isn't strong. They completely overhauled their military in the 2010s and up until recently depended almost entirely on soviet equipment and domestic modifications of soviet equipment. Their army is mostly composed of conscripts and a small amount of professional soldiers and foreign volunteers. The foreign equipment they've received is mostly cold war surplus nearing its expiration date or well past its expiration date, with dumbed down capabilities, or in such small amounts as to render them of little use on such a vast front line. All that being said, they've still managed to push the Russians out entirely from the north at the border with Belarus and they've essentially managed a stalemate with Russia for nearly 2 years when everyone, including the West, believed they would last less than a week before capitulating. Russia is absolutely pounding Ukraine but that doesn't really mean much because we all expected them to have already won by now. They haven't won, they're barely even taking ground if not outright losing it and that is why the West is mocking Russia. If they can barely compete with the likes of Ukraine then what can they do against a nation like the US which maintains its status as an economic superpower while being in a state of perpetual war in completely different continents and which develops its weapons with the concept of overkill rather than playing catch-up to achieve parity?

[@neiljopling4693]

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

[@victorzvyagintsev1325]

From the makers of pps-43

[@puscas1329]

👏👏🇷🇴🇷🇴

[@Troy_Tempest]

Invented by Germany!

[@MCMilitaryForce]

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

[@Rssika]

Very accurate attacks on churches, hospitals and apartment complexes, those kids don't know what hit them. 🙄

[@Gstyle1]

Nice joke, Hamas is sitting in their tunnels, hospitals and housing buildings are destroyed by Israel

[@user-pm7fv9dt6j]

@@Rssika Hospital was clearly attacked by hamas, There's a dozen footage including AJ livestream showing the rocket misfire .

[@maclain728]

⁠@@Gstyle1Still trying to push that Hamas lie about the hospital? There’s multiple angles of footage showing the rocket launch failure by Hamas and the rocket hitting the hospital. Not the IDF They also claimed 500 people we killed when it went off in a parking lot. Since that was obviously bs makes you wonder how inflated the total Palestinians killed number actually is. If they blatantly lied here they likely are on other incidents

[@ou6775]

And hospitals.

[@Ru_Imperialist]

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

[@23uhr]

ok

[@smuganimeface6247]

Don't make me get the Oryx list boy, "2nd best army" in the world is getting fucking demolished by nato's table scraps.

[@Ru_Imperialist]

@@smuganimeface6247 не знал, что армия страны, что имеет ввп в 10 раз меньше чем сша способна поставить военно-промышленный комплекс всего запада в состояние истощения. Всего-то пара лет войны и запад уже не может производить артиллерийские снаряды в нужном количестве, а производство танков так и вовсе отсутсвует. Почему-то хоть по вашему мнению Россия несëт большие потери, Украина просит всë больше и больше техники, хотя по идее они уже должны быть в Крыму. Почему-то во многих СМИ Украины говорится об усилении мобилизации, а в СМИ России об этом почти не упоминается. По сути ради медийного уничтожения 2-й армии мира вы уничтожили целую страну поставив еë на грань демографической катастрофы. Медицина, образование, наука, промышленность этой страны была принесена в жертву ради того, чтобы по итогу ничего не добиться кроме как того, что Россия начала реформировать свою армию и демонстрировать всë новые образцы вооружения.

[@youdontneedtoknowwhoiam9612]

@@smuganimeface6247 NATO ought to start lend leasing ukraine white paint given how much they wasted painting Z's on their own destroyed tanks.

[@innelator6941]

@@smuganimeface6247interesting, why Oryx stopped counting NATO tanks losses? Oh yeah, independent journalists that double count only looses their owner said them to count. Calm down NAFO boi

[@danghoangluong2942]

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