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Russia is developing a new guided aerial bomb with a range of up to 400 kilometers, according to Militarnyi on November 15.
Militarnyi reported, citing an interview that Major General Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, gave to Reuters, that the new munition is a further evolution of Russia’s glide bomb program, which has already expanded significantly since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia’s existing guided aerial bombs were initially estimated to have a range of up to about 90 kilometers, allowing Russian aircraft to remain behind the front line while striking Ukrainian targets.
Skibitskyi said Moscow is now producing an upgraded version capable of flying up to 200 kilometers from the release point and is working on modifications that could extend that range to roughly 400 kilometers, enabling strikes on more Ukrainian cities without using missiles.
In the same assessment, Ukrainian intelligence told Reuters that Russia plans to manufacture up to 120,000 glide bombs in 2025, a figure that includes both newly built munitions and standard bombs converted into guided weapons.
Around 500 of these are expected to be a longer-range type capable of reaching about 200 kilometers, Ukrainian officials said, adding that Russian forces are currently dropping between 200 and 250 glide bombs on Ukraine each day.
These weapons, which are cheaper and more abundant than missiles but carry several hundred kilograms of explosives, have already been used to hit cities and towns in the Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Poltava, and Odesa regions, demonstrating their expanding reach.
Earlier, it was reported that Ukrainian intelligence expects Russia to significantly ramp up precision weapons production by manufacturing up to 120,000 guided aerial bombs and tens of thousands of attack drones, including at least 500 extended-range KABs able to reach roughly 200–400 kilometers.
