NATO Seeks Ways To Defeat Glide Bombs

This photo made from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on July 12, 2024, shows FAB-500 bombs being dropped by a Russian Su-34 bomber in an undisclosed location.

Credit: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP Stock Photo - Alamy
Russia has increasingly resorted to ever-growing and more lethal glide bombs to strike targets in Ukraine while keeping the launch aircraft out of the range of air defenses. Now NATO wants to do something about that. The alliance’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) has asked industry and academia...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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