The Aerospace Forces attacked Kryvyi Rih with an aerial bomb from a UMPK system that flew 175 km.

October 26 2025 7 522 13

On the afternoon of October 26, the Russian Armed Forces once again struck enemy targets in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Following this, a theory surfaced on social media that the Russian Aerospace Forces had attacked Kryvyi Rih for the first time using a guided bomb, possibly a KAB or a munition dropped from a UMPK.

Eyewitnesses posted a video online showing an explosion upon landing. Military-related social media groups reported that it was the result of a bomb dropped from a Russian bomber 175 km from its target. Some Ukrainian experts claim that a Grom-E1 glide vehicle, a satellite-guided missile, could have been used.

The Aerospace Forces possess a wide range of various extended-range air-launched weapons. For example, the UMPK-R is a FAB with a universal planning and correction module, equipped with a Chinese-made jet engine. This munition is rarely used yet and is likely still undergoing testing.

There's also the UMBP-5R—a universal, inter-service, 500-kg-caliber glide munition with a rocket motor. According to Ukrainian experts, the munition is the same UMBP D-30SN, but with a larger warhead and a rocket motor.

In turn, the Grom air-launched missile and bomb system exists in two versions: the 9-A-7759 Grom-1 missile with a range of up to 190 km, and the 9-A1-7759 Grom-2 aerial bomb, which flies less, but has a larger warhead.

All of the above-mentioned munitions are delivered to Ukrainian Armed Forces positions on the front lines and periodically appear deep in the Ukrainian rear. The frequency of use of each munition varies, but so far, the Grom family is the most widely used.

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vlad127490

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26 October 2025 20: 17

Energodar is 100 km from Kryvyi Rih. A simple cast iron bomb dropped from a MiG-31 from an altitude of 20 km will travel 100 km at a speed of 2500 km/h. It can simultaneously drop eight 500 kg bombs 100 km. A MiG-25 would also be suitable for this purpose, but Russia doesn't have any.
1. Wandering
  
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  26 October 2025 20: 49
  
  Dropping from 2500? (You're an optimist!) The KVO of such cast iron is plus or minus two bast shoes according to the map? And why?
  1. vlad127490
    
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    26 October 2025 21: 35
    
    At the test site, a cast iron drop from an altitude of 22 km at a speed of 2500 km/h was conducted 40 years ago. But in today's reality, when a munition with a UMPK is available, it has to be used. Maybe we still have MiG-25s somewhere; they could lift five tons up to 30 km.
    1. Wandering
      
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      26 October 2025 22: 13
      
      I liked your comment. It seemed like an answer, but it was essentially noise. Oh well.
      1. vlad127490
        
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        27 October 2025 00: 13
        
        This is just information; how you interpret it is up to you. The MiG-25 is successfully used in Azerbaijan; there's plenty of information on this topic, as well as on stratospheric munition drops. The probability of hitting a dynamic target with a velocity of 2500 km/h using a Patriot air defense system at altitudes above 20 km is less than 20%.
2. beeper
  
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  26 October 2025 21: 04
  
  Range and accuracy!
  Of course, I feel sorry for the factory workers!
  But they knew what they were getting into!
  Although I need money to live, I fundamentally refuse to go to work for Bandera's "military" company, even for a high and timely salary (which is rare among the post-Maidan lawlessness and tyranny of the owners of the factory "little firms").
  Although under Shoigu and Belousov (under him they may have stopped “lying”, but “making mistakes” is “possible”?! ), it happened and still happens, it “flies” into purely civilian production (even into long-closed factory workshops - probably “from space all workshops are sulfur”? ).
  1. Wandering
    
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    26 October 2025 21: 08
    
    Stirlitz knew that the last phrase was remembered
    How readable everything is.
    1. beeper
      
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      26 October 2025 21: 42
      
      Well, yes, thank you for bringing this to my attention, "Herr Müller"!
      Somehow I overlooked this factor! As a result, readers might get the false impression that this time, too, a "civilian enterprise" was hit?!
      My purely personal “lyrical digression” at the end should have been separated from the rest of the commentary.
      The key word in my comment above is precisely this accuracy!(in all senses of the news being discussed).
3. Pembo
  
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  27 October 2025 09: 00
  
  A simple cast iron dropped from a MiG-31 from a height of 20 km will fly 100 km at a speed of 2500 km/h
  
  Cast iron dropped from a height of 20 kilometers at a speed of 2500 kilometers per hour will travel 44 kilometers (43916 meters). Can you tell me the formula from an 8th-grade physics textbook?
4. Pembo
  
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  27 October 2025 09: 02
  
  A simple cast iron dropped from a MiG-31 from a height of 20 km will fly 100 km at a speed of 2500 km/h.
  
  Cast iron dropped from a height of 20 kilometers at a speed of 2500 kilometers per hour will travel 44 kilometers (43916 meters). Can you tell me the formula from an 8th-grade physics textbook?
H.J.P.

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26 October 2025 22: 26

What nonsense, why do we need a Chinese-made jet engine?
1. oao
  
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  27 October 2025 10: 49
  
  You definitely don't need it.
2. AndrK72
  
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  27 October 2025 10: 51
  
  What do we have of our own???