Ukraine’s Homegrown Glide Bomb Breaks Cover
Ukraine has fielded its first domestically developed guided glide bomb, with the Ministry of Defense confirming that all required trials are complete and combat deployment is imminent. The weapon was built from scratch in 17 months by DG Industry through the Brave1 defense innovation accelerator. It carries a 250 kg warhead fitted with a wing kit and guidance system, and is designed to strike targets dozens of kilometers behind enemy lines. The Ministry of Defense has placed a first order and pilots are currently training with the weapon. Video released by the Ukrainian Air Force shows the bomb being released from a Su-24 Fencer with its range-extending wings deploying immediately after separation. Ukrainian authorities say the design was not copied from any Western or Soviet system.
The glide bomb fills a gap that has been growing since 2024. Western-supplied standoff weapons including JDAM-ER, AASM Hammer, and Storm Shadow have come in limited quantities and with restrictions on their use against targets inside Russia. A domestically produced weapon removes both constraints. The timing reflects broader pressure on Ukraine's air-launched munitions supply: the US Air Force developed the Extended Range Attack Munition program specifically to address the shortfall, but evidence of those weapons reaching the front has yet to emerge. Meanwhile Russia has scaled its own glide bomb production to industrial levels, fitting increasingly large unguided bombs with precision guidance kits. Ukraine's new weapon gives the Air Force a sovereign precision strike capability that can be produced, modified, and employed without foreign approval.
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BlitzBox Packs 100 Weaponized Drones Into An Unassuming Containers \\ TWZ
DZYNE Technologies showed Blitz at SOF Week 2026, an expendable drone built for mass production and rapid deployment across three launch modes: hand thrown from a rucksack, rail launched in four-packs from vehicles, and container launched in waves of up to 100 from a standard ISO shipping container called BlitzBox. The aircraft fits in an 80-liter pack, goes from box to flight ready in under two minutes, and trains a new operator in under two hours. Payload capacity is 2.3 kg with a range of 80 to 150 km. Modular bays in the nose, wings, and tail accept ISR, EW, decoy, and strike packages without changing the base airframe or ground control software. The containerized BlitzBox variant draws on operational lessons from Russia's Shahed campaign against Ukraine, where trailer launched drone salvos demonstrated the effectiveness of cheap mass employment.
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