220 pounds of explosives is weak. The US SDB is about that and is rarely useful. 500 lbs is standard and that’s for the old MK82, onto which JDAM kits were attached.
As to adding guidance and mild propulsion to what is effectively an artillery shell, no big deal. Been done, by both sides, for years.
Russian tech is often superior, but this is not an example.
Now, what MAY be an example is the sheer availability of raw materials to make FAB3000 and 2000. Lots and lots of pounds of explosives. The US doesn’t have that. For over a year now the media’s obsession with drones has distracted from the reality that they can’t carry enough boomage to matter.
We destroyed most of our Cold War weapons as the latest Japanese Corporate Culture says to MINIMIZE INVENTORIES. So we told ourselves they were ‘obsolete’ and will never have a future use, and so all of that storage cost was saved.
Russia, though, is SO BACKWARDS that they weren’t up on Japanese Corporate Culture that they kept everything from the Cold War, being the TOTAL IDIOTS that the are...until now.
By they how’s our decommissioning of A-10’s, F-117s, and God knows what else, going?
They may think that using up MLRS rockets to lob the FAB-250s is a good stopgap measure, but to me the most interesting question is why they need to do that.
First, the Tornado-S already has Russian GLONAS (their GPS) guided MLRS rockets, and have used them in Ukraine since the start of the war. Second, the FAB-250 bomb has the same weight as the Tornado rockets. There is no way to fit more equipment one of these bombs, fit it in front of a booster, give greater range, and stay within the size and weight limits of the Tornado rocket and launcher.
Some pro-Invasion telegram channel puts out a video claiming a new wonder weapon. Does Russia really have or need it, when they already have GLONASS guided MLRS rocket and glide bombs? Sounds fishy.