PBK-500U Drel

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PBK-500U Drel
PBK-500U
TypeGlide bomb
Place of originRussian Federation
Service history
In service2018–present
Used bySee Users
Production history
DesignerNPO Bazalt
VariantsSee Variants
Specifications
Weight540 kg

Effective firing range30-50 km
Maximum firing rangeUp to 50 km

Flight altitude14 km
Guidance
system
Inertial guidance/GLONASS

The PBK-500U Drel is an inertial and GLONASS-guided stealth cluster glide bomb developed by the Russian Federation, designed to destroy enemy armored vehicles and buildings. Drel is equipped with friend or foe identification system and electronic countermeasures making it resistant to jamming and radar detection and is planned to be introduced to the Russian military in 2018.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Bazalt considers equipping Drel with a pulsejet engine to increase its range.

Parameters[edit]

  • Altitude: 14 km
  • Range: 30 - 50 km
  • Weight: 540 kg

Munitions[edit]

  • 15 self-targeting anti-tank SPBE-K submunitions with a twin-band (3–5 µm and 8–14 µm) infrared seeker and a millimetre-wavelength radar seeker with an identification of friend-or-foe (IFF) system
  • Other types of munitions are under development

Operators[edit]

 Russia

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