🔥 Zaporizhzhia: 9 people, including one child, were injured as a result of airstrikes as of 1 a.m. on September 23

On September 22, around 11 p.m., the enemy carried out airstrikes on the regional center.

As a result of the attack, 9 people were previously injured, including one child. The number of victims is being ascertained.

Rescuers evacuated residents of damaged apartment buildings. One woman was unblocked from her own apartment.

Firefighters extinguished the fire of a car and the balcony of one of the apartments on a total area of 10 square meters. Emergency work was carried out to dismantle the destroyed structures of the entrance to the apartments.

A total of 47 rescuers and 10 pieces of equipment were involved in the liquidation from the State Emergency Service.

Policemen, explosives experts, volunteers of the Rapid Response Unit of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine and other specialized services of the city worked on the ground.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/09/22/kharkiv-residential-area-hit-by-fab-250-bomb-21-locals-injured/

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

A FAB (Fuel-Air Bomb) is a type of explosive device that uses a mixture of fuel and air to create a powerful blast. It is also known as an "aerosol bomb" or "thermobaric bomb".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Thank you kind person.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

Ah.

Yeah I thought a fab bomb was when your mate arrives to the party with a tinsel scarf and glitter fedora, demanding we all do shots and karaoke to Madonna's greatest hits.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

War criminals.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

God fucking damnit you animals...

This, this is the fucking line, give them fire authorization on Russian soil, give them fucking fire authorization on Moscow, the Kremlin.

This nightmare has to end, and they just seem to want to keep pulling back the covers on more and more horror. God-damned Russians need everyone else to live in the hell they dream of.

A FAB is hell on earth, if only 9 people were hurt they didn't do this to kill, they did it to threaten, but hell is not a thing a human threatens on innocents.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So how did they get that thing close enough without getting the bomber pasted by Ukrainian air defenses? Like, normally I thought that the FABs are dumb bombs, and I wouldn't have thought that Russia could stick a bomber above a Ukrainian city. Are Russian glide bombs thermobaric?

kagis

Ah, apparently so, or at least they have started to be.

https://theaviationist.com/2024/07/16/russias-monster-fab-3000/

Russia’s Monster FAB-3000 Glide Bomb Shown Employed By Su-34 Bombers

Almost a month after it released footage of the massive 2,993 kg FAB-3000 bomb strapped with the UMPK (Universal Module for Planning and Correction) glide kit striking a land target in Kharkiv, Russia now officially published a video of the bomb and its launching Su-34 aircraft in action. The RuMoD (Russia Ministry of Defense) extensively captured in a video the bomb’s loading, carriage, release, flight and final target engagement in explicit detail.

The UMPK it applied to the FAB-3000 represents an evolution of Russian air launched munitions employed on Ukrainian land targets, which began with the kit being applied to the FAB-500 last year and later to the FAB-1500. The Soviet-era FAB-3000, whose production restarted earlier this year, was designed only for bombers and the Tu-22M3 was the only one currently in service which could employ it, until the Su-34 video emerged.

The ISW (Institute for the Study of War), quoting Russian reports, said that UMPC-kitted FAB-3000 and FAB-250 to FAB-1500 have ranges of 50-60 km to 60-70 km respectively.

Well, that's presumably within Patriot range, especially given that an aircraft has to be at altitude and vulnerable to lob a glide bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot

Patriot has had a successful track record in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, successfully intercepting a wide range of Russian weaponry and aircraft.[5] It has shot down Russian aircraft like Su-34 fighters flying nearly 100 miles away, and intercepted missiles as far as 130 miles away, according to defense NGO reports.

Probably the Franco-Italian SAMP/T too, and I know that they've sent some to Ukraine.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aster_(missile_family)#Characteristics

Aster 30 Block 0 & 1: 120+ km[1]
Aster 30 Block 1 NT: 150+ km[2]

Ukraine might not have enough to cover Zaporizhzhia, though, or maybe there's some kind of electronic warfare or something else going on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That’s how Ukranians pasted several Su-34s and Su-30s this summer. They had to set up ambushes where they expected orks to attack, taking the launchers very close to the front.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They used at least one in the early days, i remember the video and ensuing discussion about “vacuum bombs”