Gosh,
This is such a logistical admission against interest by the Russian VKS I don't know where to begin.
We see here a single Russian forklift operator moving a FAB-500 bomb with _chains_ wrapped around forklift tines at the 12-16 sec mark
A USAF safety NCO's head
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This is such a logistical admission against interest by the Russian VKS I don't know where to begin.
We see here a single Russian forklift operator moving a FAB-500 bomb with _chains_ wrapped around forklift tines at the 12-16 sec mark
A USAF safety NCO's head
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https://twitter.com/MrFrantarelli/status/1873417136829509934
...would explode seeing the procedure used.
Four men build the UMPK kit on the loaded bomb.
The packaging for the FAB-500 is obviously made to be _rolled_on_the_ground_ by a mobik work gang or stacked in a gondola car of a Russian train by a crane.
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Four men build the UMPK kit on the loaded bomb.
The packaging for the FAB-500 is obviously made to be _rolled_on_the_ground_ by a mobik work gang or stacked in a gondola car of a Russian train by a crane.
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https://x.com/TrentTelenko/status/1611208886886842368
The Russians can and do use tactical truck drawn trailers to move FAB-500 bombs, but didn't in the previous video's case.
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https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1825274592627482991
This video is of the 389th Fighter Generation Squadron loading an inert GBU-38s on an F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing.
Please carefully notice the bomb loading truck with lift uses two people to very carefully move and load...
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Please carefully notice the bomb loading truck with lift uses two people to very carefully move and load...
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...the GBU-38.
This video is of a 2000 lb JDAM being loaded onto a B-52.
The bomb is moved from a special bomb trailer on a loading truck and onto the hard point by a three person crew.
Yes, material handling equipment means you can use women.
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This video is of a 2000 lb JDAM being loaded onto a B-52.
The bomb is moved from a special bomb trailer on a loading truck and onto the hard point by a three person crew.
Yes, material handling equipment means you can use women.
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In contrast to the UMPK kit that is assembled after a bomb is loaded on an Su-34.
This IDF video demonstrates that small assembly line every airbase with JDAM kits has and how they are moved...
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This IDF video demonstrates that small assembly line every airbase with JDAM kits has and how they are moved...
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...with a chained fixture on the forklift tines, whose chains are in turn attached to the JDAM's lugs.
Not only would the USAF Safety NCO approve, the off-plane JDAM assembly line has a great deal less process variability.
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Not only would the USAF Safety NCO approve, the off-plane JDAM assembly line has a great deal less process variability.
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This assembly difference between the JDAM kit & UMPK kit alone likely accounts for many of the UMPK kit failures in combat.
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https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1800910752758263978
Given all the additional work required installing a UMPK kit on a loaded bomb, with the fueled and waiting Su-34 on the flight line.
Proper fusing of the FAB (whatever #) bomb after all that additional work might be missed or done improperly.
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Proper fusing of the FAB (whatever #) bomb after all that additional work might be missed or done improperly.
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https://x.com/RALee85/status/1838679854285492616
Nor does fuzing issues seem to be the only problem with the UMPK kits in terms of performance.
There is simply too much ill thought out animal labor involved in UMPK kit's operational use to be as consistent a performer as a JDAM.
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There is simply too much ill thought out animal labor involved in UMPK kit's operational use to be as consistent a performer as a JDAM.
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https://x.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1709160420970283061
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