What is RBK-500

What is RBK-500 Applies to everyone’s favorite, approved cluster bombs. This bomblet, in a cassette, contains the smallest fragmentation bombs in service, weighing 400 grams each. (The only thing I know less about is ZABina weighing 200 grams). SHOAB is a ball fragmentation aerial bomb. One bomb can hold more than half a thousand of them. You can hang a dozen of these cassettes on a front-line bomber, which in total gives us almost 5,500 (!!!) bombs dropped on the adversary at a time by one plane. It penetrates remarkably well into infantry, trenches, airplanes, helicopters in open parking lots and any other unarmored vehicles (all sorts of radars, trucks, tents, tank trucks, etc.). It was once one of the most terrible and respected bombs, and in my youth I heard rumors that they were not even hung on airplanes due to alarm. I don’t know how they justified this. It works simply - while still on the ground, after asking the crew for the bombing altitude at which the crew plans to operate, the gunsmiths rattle off the deceleration time on the cassette fuse, after which the cassette will open and release all its ball bombs onto the street. In the fresh air, each bomb, thanks to special bulges on the bomb body, begins to unwind, thereby arming the built-in fuse and, thanks to these same bulges, the bombs fly away from their fellow bombs. When it hits the ground, the bomb explodes and 304 balls of 5.5 mm caliber (consider it like a machine gun bullet) mow down all living things. Those who wish can multiply 5.5 thousand bombs by 304 balls to estimate the “density of fire,” so to speak. This RBC has a characteristic work pattern. She falls like a distinct “donut”. The size of the donut can be adjusted by the height of the bombing, and by setting the deceleration of the fuse, of course. Therefore, in order for one donut to overlap the center of another donut, it is better to throw at least two of them. The explosion doesn’t look very epic from a drone, so infantry generals don’t really like them, it’s not ODAB, because the power of each bomb individually is small and essentially equal to the power of a hand grenade, but if the target is suitable and it doesn’t have time to hide during the bomb’s fall, then All. 🤷‍ ️ And yes, the remission of camouflage, the correct position of the finger at the trigger, the presence or absence of a thermal imager at the target and its physical preparation do not give a damn to RBC. ©Fighterbomber #эксперт #провойну #vozмездие Источник: Wartime Media - Ukraine / Russia / China / Etc