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KAB-500KR

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The bomb is 305 cm (10 ft) long and weighs 520 kg (1,150 lb), of which 380 kg (840 lb) is a hardened, armor-piercing warhead capable of penetrating up to 1.5 metres (5 ft) of reinforced
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which employed contrast lock technology, the -Kr series guidance system employs Scene Matching Area Correlation technology more akin to the US Navy DAMASK seeker or
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DSMAC. This results in the ability to attack low contrast targets by exploiting the contrast of nearby terrain features or objects.
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variant is equipped with a fuel-air explosive warhead. The technology of KAB-500Kr is also used for larger bombs, such as
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The seeker employs a gimballed daylight television imaging sensor under a wide angle glass dome. Unlike the earlier US
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based on the 1500 kg class FAB-1500 iron bomb. There is also the training bomb KAB-500Kr-U.
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seeker and guidance fins to turn it into a guided, unpowered
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Index


fire and forget
Soviet Air Force
CIS
GBU-15
general-purpose bomb
television
glide bomb
GBU-8 HOBOS
AGM-65 Maverick
Tomahawk
concrete
KAB-1500Kr
KAB-500S-E
"KAB-500 (1500) family - Russian Bombs"
"KAB-500Kr "drop-and-forget" guided bomb"
"KAB-500-OD "drop-and-forget" guided bomb"
"Soviet/Russian Guided Bombs"
"Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC"
the original
"KAB-500Kr-U training guided bomb"
"AB-500S-E "drop-and-forget" guided aerial bomb"
Categories
Cold War aerial bombs of the Soviet Union
Guided bombs
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s

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