The U.S. is poised to resume shipments to Ukraine of long-range bombs known as Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB), after they were upgraded to better counter Russian jamming. The #GLSDB's have a range of around 100 miles or 160km.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-long-range-bombs-headed-ukraine-atacms-supply-dwindles-2025-03-13/
US will provide its own weapons for Ukraine's F-16s
Pentagon has limited stocks and production capacities, but will supply Ukrainian F-16s with air-to-ground munitions, precision-guidance kits for bombs & advanced air-to-air missiles in sufficient quantities to meet Ukraine’s most urgent needs
Weapons provided include #AGM-88 #HARM air-to-ground missiles, long-range #JDAM munitions & #GLSDB small-sized precision-guided munitions
The Pentagon has limited stocks and production capacities, but it will supply Ukrainian F-16s with air-to-ground munitions, precision-guidance kits for bombs, and advanced air-to-air missiles in sufficient quantities to meet Ukraine's most urgent needs, a senior U.S. official said.
🔴 A new precision-guided #US weapon is said to have been pulled from use by #Ukraine's military because #russia is taking it out using electronic warfare
#Ukraine and Western officials told The #WallStreetJournal the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb #GLSDB, manufactured by #Boeing and the Swedish company #Saab, had failed and was no longer in use pending an overhaul
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-us-bomb-may-have-been-pulled-from-ukraine-vulnerable-to-jamming-2024-7 #Military #News
David Axe points out that Ukraine is using #glsdb on modified Ukrainian MiGs, giving them a somewhat less powerful but more accurate glide bomb, usable on - let's face it - their most common, most expendable jets.
Axe says "no one outside the Pentagon and Ukrainian air force knew the Ukrainians had the... SDBs".
Not quite. I mentioned them on Jan. 31st, as #glsdb. And that they could easily be converted back to SDBs, usable on F-16s... or, apparently, on the MiGs modded to launch US HAARMs.
Russian jamming has kept many of #Ukraine's relatively new long-range #GLSDB bombs from hitting their intended targets.
Ukraine over the last year sought weapons with longer ranges than the 43 miles (69 km) of #US-provided GMLRS rockets so #Kyiv could attack and disrupt Russian supply lines and muster points.
While #Boeing has said the weapon can defeat some jamming, one of the sources said it would take Boeing months to fix.
#Ukraine stopped the #Russian offensive in the #Kharkov region thanks to weapons from the #United_States - media
After Congress approved a $61 billion relief package, the gun shortage began to fall. In particular, #GLSDB, #Javelin bombs, and 155 mm artillery shells are helping to repel the #Russian offensive in the #Kharkov region , reports #Reuters and #Bild.
“If now we can demonstrate that we are capable of stopping a large-scale enemy offensive on #Kharkov and the #Kharkov
@timkmak The official word is that to speed up delivery, Boeing and Saab were told only to do safety testing, and that "the operational testing will be non-cooperative with the Russians."
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/live/L8IBwse5sgQ?t=3219)
Now that's a euphemism I haven't heard in a while.
#GLSDB #noncooperative
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