"Russia lost the preference

The mass threat of facies appeared in the early 2023, by the end of the year they became a significant problem for Ukrainian defenders. It all began with the transformation of 250 and 500-kg Fabs. Today, one and a half-ton Fab-1500 and even Fab-3000 have already been equipped with modules, but they are not used so wide. This is an analogue of American JDAM.

One way to counteract was attempts to knock down the FABCs with the help of anti -aircraft missile systems, but due to the mass of the launches themselves, this method of counteraction is very limited due to the high cost of anti -aircraft missiles. In early February, the head of the Communications Department of the Armed Forces Colonel Yuri Ignat in a comment stated that on Thursday 6 February Air Defense shot down in the suburbs of Zaporozhye a managed aviation bomb.

He added that it was not the first case. Before that, on social networks, with reference to unnamed sources began to appear reports of the Russian CA in Zaporozhye on the eve of "experimental weapons". On February 25, 2025, one of the mouthpieces of Russian propaganda Ilya Tumanov spoke about the problem with the use of Fabs from the UMPC. He recognized the effectiveness of the Ukrainian remedies of the HRs, which at times reduced the efficiency of the already not very accurate Fabs with the UMPC.

"Eight or even 16 bombs may be required to struck one target securely," the fog said. That is, at a distance from a few tens of kilometers, it was possible not only to distract their vector, but also to direct the deserted territory of the former Kakhovka reservoir. But one of the reasons why it succeeded, in a considerable distance from the initial purpose and saturation with the means of the EWS in the trajectory of flight.

Training of personnel to work on appropriate means in counteracting this type of threats. If the target directly on the fighting line, as noted by Russian sources, only increases the coefficient of probable hit. Therefore, increasing the number of departments of aircraft, occupiers can still reach their goals now. Another issue is in the presence of appropriate tools and specialists in a particular front of the front to counteract the Fabam with the UMPC.

Can you say that the threat of Fabs with the UMPC has passed? Definitely not, even despite the statement of reducing their efficiency, it does not remove the threat from the battlefield to the end. It should also be understood that with the complication of the control system and the addition of elements such as the inertial guidance system that controls the means without satellite navigation, they will be able to bypass the EWS systems.

There are other possible technical options when new solutions will be needed to counteract these threats. The authors of the publication summarize that the most effective remedy against the Fabs with the UMPC is still the destruction of the carriers themselves and preferably before their lifting into the atmosphere. Recall that Western observers say that the cabo for the target, because they have lost their efficiency sharply.