KAB-500 (1500) family

     The KAB-500Kr is designed to engage stationary ground/surface small-sized hardened targets, such as reinforced concrete shelters, runways, railway and highway bridges, military industrial installations, warships, and transport vessels.
    The KAB-500-OD is designed to engage ground targets, such as fire emplacements, and manpower hidden in mountainous terrains.
    The KAB-1500Kr is designed to engage various stationary ground/surface small-sized hardened targets, such as reinforced concrete shelters, military industrial installations, depots, and seaport terminals.
    The KAB-500Kr, KAB-500-OD, KAB-1500Kr air bombs are fitted with TV/terrain-matching homing heads and various types of warheads.  TV homers with target data processing correlation algorithm  can “remember” target location and correct bomb’s flight trajectory until the impact on the target, thus realizing the “fire and forget” principle. Such homing heads can help defeat low-contrast and masked targets provided that terrain reference points and target coordinates related to them are available. The KAB-500Kr, KAB-500-OD, KAB-1500Kr corrected air bombs make part of weapon systems of such front-line aircraft types as Su-27, Su-30, Su-34, Su-24M, MiG-29, and others. 

Basic Specifications

Parameters

KAB-500Kr 

KAB-500-OD 

KAB-1500Kr

 Weights: total/warhead/HE, kg 

520/380/100 

370/250/140 

1,525/1,170/440

 Dimensions:
   length/diameter/empennage, m 

3.05/0.35/0.75

3.05/0.35/0.75

4.63/0.58/0.85 (folded), 1.3 unfolded

 Bomb drop altitude, km

0.5 - 5 

0.5 - 5 

1-8

 Carrier speed, km/h

550-1,100

550-1,100

550-1,100

 Root mean square deviation, m

4 - 7

4 - 7

4 - 7

 Warhead type

concrete-piercing
(high explosive  penetrator)

 high explosive
(fuel-air explosive)

high explosive

     The delivery set can be completed with the KAB-500Kr-U training bomb used for pilots’ mastering combat employment skills for KAB-500Kr, KAB-500-OD and KAB-1500Kr corrected air bombs. The KAB-500Kr-U training bomb parameters are as follows: weight - 85 kg, length - 1.83 m, diameter – 0.35 m.

Developed and manufactured by “Region” State Research and Production Enterprise