The occupiers intend to throw Ukraine with heavy bombs: in the Russian Federation are allowed into the Fab-1500 series-the media
The publication states that in November 2023, the Commander of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Mykola Oleshchuk expressed concern about the signs of preparation for intensive use by the enemy of the one half-ton Fab-1500. However, Russian channels have reported that these aircraft have been producing since the beginning of the war.
Journalists noted that in February the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoiga visited the plant, where these ammunition was produced. It is also reported that the last Russian Front Aviation last used these bombs on March 6 during a blow to Krasnogorivka, Donetsk region. This was reported by the 46th separate airmobile brigade.
In their Telegram channel, they posted a video of a horrible explosion after resetting a bomb that caused a huge fiery pillar that reaches the height of a twenty-storey building. Experts explain that Fab-1500-M54 is a further development of the Bomb CAC-1500, which in the 1970s was developed in the USSR, and began to be used in the 1980s. The length of the aircraft is 2765 cm, the diameter is 630 mm. Its weight, as can be understood from the name, reaches 1.
5 tons, of which 675 is an explosive (TNT). The aviation is designed for blows to industrial, urban, port structures, as well as high security facilities. When using the bomb, it can leave a funnel up to 15 meters in diameter, and the radius of fragments and shock wave is about 500 m. Currently, experts say, the carriers of one and a half-ton fabes are fighter-bombers Su-34. The bomb can be dropped from a height of up to 16 km, at a speed of flight up to 1200 km/h.