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