Shoigu said that in the Russian Federation the production of components for ammunition increased almost 22 times, 75% of the parts were renewed.
The Russians began mass production of the three-ton FAB-3000 aerial bomb. This was reported to the Russian Ministry of Defense following the results of Minister Sergei Shoigu’s trip to the enterprises of the military-industrial complex in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
It was noted that mass production of the FAB-3000 has been fixed since February.
The FAB-3000 is an unguided bomb developed in the USSR. Whether it is equipped with a new control module is unknown.
According to Russian data, only the Tu-22M3 long-range bomber can use the FAB-3000, but this aircraft cannot use bombs from the UMPC. One of the main carriers of ammunition with this module is the Su-34 front-line bomber, but it, in turn, is not an official carrier of the FAB-3000.
The Universal Flight Planning and Correction Module (UMPC) is an attached module that converts conventional unguided bombs (in particular, FAB-250 and FAB-500 M-62) into glider bombs – high-precision munitions with a higher range.
According to Shoigu, in the Russian Federation, the production of ammunition components “has increased almost 22 times, 75% of the components have been restored. and they are working at full capacity.”
The head of the Russian military department also noted that “serious changes have taken place in enterprises after a preliminary inspection.”
Shoigu stressed that businesses have previously been tasked with expanding their production capacity.
“After the new facilities started operating, the production volume actually increased by almost 2.5 times,” he said.
Let’s recall that, according to media reports, Russia has begun to add self-liquidators to the universal planning and correction modules (UMPC) of high-explosive bombs (FAB), which significantly complicates their disposal.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian Federation has started mass production of the “monster bomb” – FAB-1500-M54.
Source: korrespondent
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