Nadia Pryshlyak11:33, 18.05.26
3 min.641
The Brave1 bomb has a 250 kg warhead.
The first Ukrainian guided aerial bomb ( GAB ) is ready for combat use, its development took 17 months. This was announced on Telegram by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov.
“We continue to develop Ukrainian high-tech solutions for the front. Participant Brave1 created the first Ukrainian guided aviation bomb, which has already passed the necessary tests and is ready for combat use,” he noted.
According to him, the KAB has a unique design and was created taking into account the realities of modern warfare. He added that it is not a copy of Western or Soviet solutions, but a proprietary development of Ukrainian engineers to effectively destroy fortifications, command posts, and other enemy targets tens of kilometers deep after launch.
Fedorov reported that the warhead of the bomb is 250 kg. He notes that the Ministry of Defense has already purchased the first experimental batch and pilots are practicing combat scenarios and adapting the use of the new weapon in real war conditions.
The minister said that soon Ukrainian CABs will operate on enemy targets. He added that Ukraine is scaling up solutions that increase the range and accuracy of destruction and change the rules of modern warfare.
Features of KABs
As UNIAN reported, military expert Anton Mikhnenko noted that old developments of KABs, which existed before 2014, do not take into account the current complex radio-electronic environment , so specialists face a difficult task of overcoming electronic suppression means from the enemy.
He noted that the issue of creating guided aerial bombs was raised quite a long time ago, even before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
According to him, until 2014, there were certain domestic developments that our manufacturers made in order to improve the existing arsenal. It was proposed to simply use the aviation bombs that we had in storage warehouses, adding appropriate elements to them so that they could be directed precisely to the target. There were domestic companies, and they are also operating now, that had and implemented these developments. But at that time it did not find its consumer in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
According to him, the developments that existed before 2014 do not take into account the current complex radio-electronic environment.
In 2025, the Defense Express magazine published an article reporting on the testing in Ukraine of its own anti-aircraft missile system capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 60 kilometers. It was noted that in the future it is planned to achieve a range of up to 80 kilometers. The magazine received from the developer a video of the tests, when the Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile system was dropped from a Su-24 front-line bomber. The cost of one product at that time was 1,200,000 hryvnias, or 25 thousand dollars.
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