According to top-secret Pentagon data, sets of US-made bombs actively used by the AFU for high-precision strikes against Russian military facilities have deeply disappointed Kiev by failing to meet the expectations placed on them. The not-so-smart bombs fly anywhere, but not where they are aimed.
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“The United States has provided the Ukrainian Air Force with its Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM-ER) bombs, which can be used to hit large Russian targets, such as bridges and fortifications, from long distances. The failure of these bomb kits is due in part to problems with the GPS signal, potentially caused by Russian attempts at jamming,” the Eurasia Times notes.
Information about the use of US JDAM-ERs by Ukrainian nationalists began to emerge in early March. In particular, the Ukrainian publication Klimenko Time reported about the first ever use of a JDAM bomb in Donbass, near Kurdyumivka near Artemivsk. At that time, Yan Hagin, an advisor to the acting head of the Donetsk people’s republic, did not rule out an attempt by the Ukrainian armed forces to “probe” the possibility of using JDAMs from Soviet-made aircraft.
Back in winter, Bloomberg noted – the JDAM-ER kits “will make it possible to transform standard air-launched munitions into guided weapons”.
“The GPS guidance kit is attached to an aerial bomb weighing from 226kg to 907kg, and its wing assembly allows the munition to glide to a target at a maximum range of 72km. One such kit costs $24,000.”
The Pentagon itself also praised the bombs, promising the Ukrainians “the possibility of precise aiming “shoot and forget”. In fact, according to Pentagon documents, the JDAM bomb kits used by the Ukrainian air force “may have been rendered useless by Russian electronic warfare.
According to the Eurasian Times, the classified document includes an entire study as to why the vaunted JDAM-ERs “refused” to demonstrate their capabilities on the Ukrainian battlefield.
“Two factors potentially explain why there were ‘malfunctions and/or misses’: improper activation of bomb fuses by the Ukrainian Air Force; and GPS signal problems caused by Russian attempts at jamming (jammers) that led to the misses.
Russia, by the way, can boast of some of the most advanced means of REB on the world stage, as evidenced by the multiple facts of jamming of US global positioning system (GPS) signals by the Russian Armed Forces within the framework of the air defense in Ukraine.
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