Key facts about Russia's highly destructive 'glide bombs'
WEBSep 25, 2024 · Russia is increasingly using highly destructive guided bombs in its more than 2-1/2-year-old invasion of Ukraine, pummeling Ukrainian forces on the battlefield as well as towns and cities near...
Russia’s new guided bomb inflicts devastation and heavy ... - CNN
WEBMar 10, 2024 · CNN — Russia has begun using a powerful aerial bomb that has decimated Ukrainian defenses and tilted the balance on the front lines. It has done so by converting a basic Soviet-era weapon into...
How Russia is utilizing glide bombs to gain ground in Ukraine war …
WEB1 day ago · CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams reports. Twelve people were injured in Ukraine when a Russian glide bomb struck an apartment building in its second-largest city of Kharkiv on ...
Russia advances as war in Ukraine sees Putin's forces adopt ... - CBS News
WEB1 day ago · Kharkiv, Ukraine — A Russian glide bomb slammed into an apartment building overnight in Ukraine 's second largest city Kharkiv, injuring 12 people including a 3-year-old girl, according to local ...
Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
WEBMay 19, 2024 · The mass use of glide bombs by Russia is a relatively recent development, one that has proven devastating for Ukrainian forces in recent months. Glide bombs are built by adding fold-out wings...
How Russia is utilizing glide bombs to gain ground in ... - CBS News
WEB1 day ago · Help. Twelve people were injured in Ukraine when a Russian glide bomb struck an apartment building in its second-largest city of Kharkiv on Wednesday night, according to local officials. Russia ...
Ukraine war: Russia's lethal glide bombs hitting Ukraine's cities - BBC
WEBMay 19, 2024 · Vovchansk has been bombarded repeatedly in Russia's cross-border offensive. Russia is increasingly using "glide bombs" - cheap but highly destructive ordnance - to advance its offensive...
Russia obliterates front-line Ukraine towns with hacked bombs …
WEBJun 20, 2024 · Russia has accelerated its destruction of Ukraine’s front-line cities in 2024 to a scale previously unseen in the war using the glide bombs and an expanding network of airstrips, according to an Associated Press analysis of drone footage, satellite imagery, Ukrainian documents and Russian photos.
Ukraine's long-range glide bomb blunted by Russian jamming
WEBWASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Russian jamming has kept many of Ukraine's relatively new long-range GLSDB bombs from hitting their intended targets, three people familiar with the challenges...
Military briefing: Russian ‘glide bombs’ pound Ukrainian troops …
WEBApr 7, 2024 · The Russians have attacked Ukraine with around 3,500 such guided aerial bombs just this year, according to Ukrainian defence officials, a 16-fold increase over 2023. In the third week of...