This is what happens when you have people who aren't Ukrainian military, operating in the country unregulated
That 34 second video from high up... Looks like the bomb landed with a minimal impact. Cars reluctantly drove past it but then it exploded about 15 seconds later. That white car driver must have immediately regretted their decision
Yeah,but they are something to be feared going by some of the craters shown on and around Ukraine trenches ,a couple of 500lb bombs hitting positions will do serious damage,
I'm not making assumptions,the Ukrainans themselves have said it,they have no counter to stop the glide bombs which are doing damage,yes we can all laugh at the one that fell last night on Russia, but these bombs are landing on Ukrainan positions and are doing damage ,
They can drop them 50+km away from positions out of range of man pads and limited Air defenses and they are definitely not being dropped from slow moving bombers
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation clarified that they were going to "bomb Voronezh" according to the regular plan, but as a result of "unscheduled descent of the bomb" it landed in the center of Belgorod.
The evil tongues of Russian warlords suggest that Ukraine has learned how to remotely drop bombs from Russian planes. (This technology was transferred to the Ukrainians by foreigners who visited Kyiv the day before) 😁
There is a joke in every joke, and the rest is the truth.
Sounds like it came straight from Lavrov.
Some on here believe if you don't know the intended target, how do you know it missed 🤷♂️
Maybe they will have to drop the bombs closer to the Frontline to prevent a repeat and thus putting the aircraft more at risk.
Then again, hard to know if Russia even give a **** about their own civilians.
Lol 🤣🤣 🤣
(Sticks hand up) OOO! OOO! OO! I know this one!
They don't. They couldn't give the flightiest of a flying f*ck about their own people, beyond maybe a tight cohort of trusted lackies.
Imagine that was here people would be running over for selfies with the bomb,
It's been claimed that it wasn't an accidental release of a bomb rather it was released aiming for karkhiv 60km away but the wings didn't open and when the bomb dropped gravity took effect
False equivalence.
Why would you chose a flight path that has you releasing ordinance over one of your own major population centres when other, equally viable flight paths are available?
I see it's been flying over Belarus recently again,
Awwe
Bomb waited for a bit. You can see the car sailing at 0:22
Following this over the last month at least they are using multiple fight paths to release these glide bombs all over the east sometimes inside ukraine and other times over Russian territory or Crimea ,less likely they would ever be intercepted over Russia
I understand that, but with multiple other flight paths available to them over Russia, why would they ever choose one over Belgorod?
Why wouldn't they? You're confusing the Russian military with someone who gives a damn about the safety of civilians, Russian or Ukrainian.
It must make sense to the Russians and that's not going to change no matter what anyone says on the internet,
I'm sure they would like to hear constructive criticisms
Bombing their own country was a right cock-up but anyone laughing and saying glide bombs thus pose no threat is delusional.
These are retro-fitted glide bombs which means they take a conventional gravity bomb (of which Russia have millions and haven't even begun to dig into their stockpile) and bolt/weld on a cheap kit with wings and gps/glonass.
The improvised/kit nature will make them less dependable than a purpose-designed glide-bomb but they are cheap, rapidly manufactured and over time they will iron out the kinks. Ukraine has no defense against them and they can reach far beyond the front-lines without putting Russian planes in (much) danger.
Every time they use a glide-bomb to take out an ammo dump or electricity substation, that's one less (more expensive) cruise missile or shahed that they have to use. So over time they will slowly but surely build back up a stockpile of those weapons, or use them for higher-priority targets.
Both view on the glide bombs can be true folks - they are a danger to Ukraine if they hit it but also they are unreliable and dangerous to the operators.
At this point, even Russia should be looking to join NATO to protect themselves from Russia.
Based off a single incident,
American ,UK and french, German weapons can fail,it's not always down to corruption,in this case a simple folding mechanism didn't open,but the tens to hundreds of other's made there making their targets in ukraine,
I think the Loss of Russian aircraft isn't in the hundreds either,I believe the losses of Russian aircraft based off the US Intelligence leak's is less than 100 (open to correction),
Human waves did their job , they helped the Russians take the majority of bakhmut, while we don't have to agree on everything but it's obvious the Russians have changed tactics recently and it's paying off in parts
Having live there and had first hand experience of Russian commercial production methods, I would not be overly optimistic about closed military production systems where graft and corruption were at completely different levels. Stratospheric comes to mind, compared to lets say "ordinary" civilian corruption. There's been plenty of evidence of it so far in Ukraine vehicles etc, breaking down due to build and maintenance issues. But with regard to the Belgorod bomb, after hitting the ground, for several seconds after the impact nothing happened, then WHOOOOSH, a mighty explosion. Wonder why it happened like that? Why did it not explode on impact? I've seen plenty of rockets making a hole in the footpaths, and remain there for in some cases many weeks, unexploded, a metre or more sticking up out of the ground. Ditto 155 shell's failing to explode on contact. All standard Russian production items.
The most shocking thing about the Belgorod explosion... by far... is that Russia admitted it.
There was a photo released recently showing hundreds of impacts from 155 artillery in but no craters from detonations .
Training for the tanks that aren't coming until god knows when ,makes no sense to train for two months on a vehicle that they won't be receiving for what another 12 months?
Just a coincidence the US said they would supply Ukraine with 31 tanks and the tweet states 31 tanks will arrive in May 🤔
Maybe 31 training tanks or maybe it's the 31 they said they would deliver and they will be trained on the exact same ones?
31 older tanks Will arrive ,
The 31 tanks they were promised are still waiting for refurbishment
Not a good sign, usually a mass attack comes within 48hrs
Most likely it was a demolition bomb that was dropped. These usually have a time delay fuze so that they explode inside buildings doing more damage instead of detonating on impact on the outside.
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