The Russian military has begun using new Grom-E1 guided bombs with a range of up to 120 km. This is reported by the Telegraph.
Russian aviation has begun to actively use the new Grom-E1 guided bombs, which can travel up to 120 kilometers thanks to the built-in rocket engine, the analyst writes. David Hacha. Grom-E1s have already been used to attack targets in Mirnograd, Kherson and Kharkov.
These bombs, he said, allow Su-30 and Su-34 fighters to attack the enemy while remaining out of range of most Ukrainian air defense systems, including modern American F-16 aircraft with AMRAAM missiles.
Ukraine, in turn, attacks with French Hammer bombs and their local equivalents, as well as American JSOW bombs. However, the range of these bombs is about 64 km, so Ukrainian aircraft are in the zone of destruction of the Russian S-300 and S-400 air defense systems, as well as Su-30 fighters. with R-77 missiles, the author points out. quoted by the publication Strana.
