FAB-500
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The FAB-500 (cyrillic: , acronym for , ”high-capacity aerial bomb”) is a Soviet/Russian designation for general purpose high-explosive aerial bombs of the class. Starting in 1931 with the FAB-500sv, later models are today primarily used by the Russian Aerospace Forces, former Soviet republics and customer countries.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- FAB-500 series
- Weapon.image
- ФАБ-500М-62 - МАКС-2009 01 (cropped).jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.caption
- FAB-500M-62 (marked in cyrillic: )
- Weapon.origin
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.type
- Unguided high-capacity/general-purpose aerial bomb
- Weapon.is_explosive
- yes
- Weapon.variants
- KAB-500 (guided bomb)
- Weapon.filling
- High explosive
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Development
- FAB-500sv
- World War II development
- Cold War development
- Operational history
- Operational envelope (FAB-500 M-62)
- Models
- Operators
- See also
- References
The FAB-500 (cyrillic: , acronym for , ”high-capacity aerial bomb”) is a Soviet/Russian designation for general purpose high-explosive aerial bombs of the class. Starting in 1931 with the FAB-500sv, later models are today primarily used by the Russian Aerospace Forces, former Soviet republics and customer countries.
The latest bombs in the series use the UMPK, a winged system developed after 2022 Ukraine war, for precision satellite guidance and increased stand-off distance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FAB-500” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.