{"id":543336,"date":"2026-05-18T13:51:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=543336"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:55:30","slug":"ukraine-s-defence-ministry-announces-development-of-guided-aerial-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukraine-s-defence-ministry-announces-development-of-guided-aerial-bomb","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Ministry Announces Development of Guided Aerial Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Defence Minister <b>Mykhailo Fedorov<\/b> announced the development of a guided aerial bomb. It will be supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The first experimental batch has already been purchased.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The Defence Ministry has already purchased the first experimental batch. Pilots are currently testing combat scenarios and adapting the use of the new weapon in real wartime conditions,&#8221;<\/i> Fedorov said.<\/p>\n<p>It was emphasised that the development is an original design created by Ukrainian engineers rather than an adapted foreign or Soviet-made product. The bomb was developed over 17 months by a participant in the Brave1 defence hub.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb has a 250-kg warhead and is capable of striking targets dozens of kilometres after launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced the development of a guided aerial bomb. It will be supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The first experimental batch has already been purchased. &#8220;The Defence Ministry has already purchased the first experimental batch. Pilots are currently testing combat scenarios and adapting the use of the new weapon in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":543335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0af02558bcb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Ministry Announces Development of Guided Aerial Bomb"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143291,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-army","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}