Three Tons of Destruction: The Massive Russian Air Force Bombing
The FAB-3000 UMPK is a gigantic bomb with impressive precision that expands Russia’s strike capabilities to long ranges
Avraham Ayalon
| 25/06/2024
In March, then-Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, visited a munitions plant in Nizhny Novgorod. A standard FAB-3000 M54 bomb is seen in the background. Photo: Russian MoD
EOK HUB website recently published a video, marked with a watermark reading "Fighter Bomber," which appeared on social media. The video shows the use of the FAB-3000 UMPK kit.
The FAB-3000 is a Russian unguided bomb, air-dropped, primarily intended for the destruction of industrial facilities, urban areas, and port infrastructure. UMPK is a guidance kit developed by the Russian Bazalt Design Bureau for converting unguided bombs into precision-guided munitions. This guidance kit extends the flight range of regular air-dropped bombs, providing them with longer-range and more precise strike capabilities, similar to the American Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).
The FAB-3000 with the UMPK kit is the largest bomb in the Russian Air Force, with a total weight of 3,000 kg, including 1,400 kg of TNT. The specifications are impressive: a maximum penetration capability of 183 mm, an armor destruction radius (indicating the distance at which the bomb's explosion and shockwave can cause significant damage to property and people) of 42 meters, and a fragmentation dispersion radius (indicating the broader area where bomb fragments spread, creating lethal hazards and causing secondary damage) reaching 260 meters.
**The information is based on publications that appeared in the LinkedIn groups managed by the author: Explosives / Blasting (Energetic Materials) OSH, and Fireworks and Pyrotechnics OSH.
The FAB-3000 UMPK is a gigantic bomb with impressive precision that expands Russia’s strike capabilities to long ranges
In March, then-Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, visited a munitions plant in Nizhny Novgorod. A standard FAB-3000 M54 bomb is seen in the background. Photo: Russian MoD
EOK HUB website recently published a video, marked with a watermark reading "Fighter Bomber," which appeared on social media. The video shows the use of the FAB-3000 UMPK kit.
The FAB-3000 is a Russian unguided bomb, air-dropped, primarily intended for the destruction of industrial facilities, urban areas, and port infrastructure. UMPK is a guidance kit developed by the Russian Bazalt Design Bureau for converting unguided bombs into precision-guided munitions. This guidance kit extends the flight range of regular air-dropped bombs, providing them with longer-range and more precise strike capabilities, similar to the American Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).
The FAB-3000 with the UMPK kit is the largest bomb in the Russian Air Force, with a total weight of 3,000 kg, including 1,400 kg of TNT. The specifications are impressive: a maximum penetration capability of 183 mm, an armor destruction radius (indicating the distance at which the bomb's explosion and shockwave can cause significant damage to property and people) of 42 meters, and a fragmentation dispersion radius (indicating the broader area where bomb fragments spread, creating lethal hazards and causing secondary damage) reaching 260 meters.
**The information is based on publications that appeared in the LinkedIn groups managed by the author: Explosives / Blasting (Energetic Materials) OSH, and Fireworks and Pyrotechnics OSH.
