GB1000 Series (GB5) 1000 kg aviation guided bomb
Ground-penetrating weapons, also known as deep penetration ammunition, refer to weapons that can penetrate deep into a solid target and detonate. In the 1960s, in order to attack aircraft and artillery shells, the West developed penetration weapons represented by Durandal anti-runway bombs. As countries solidified and made important military targets underground, penetration technology and intelligent fuze technology have achieved greater development. Since the Gulf War, the United States has used more than a dozen penetration weapons, and the most powerful can even hit 60 meters underground. Deep reinforced bunker. Naturally, China cannot stay on the sidelines. It has also made significant progress in the field of protection engineering and penetration technology.
At present, the Chinese army has equipped a large number of ground-penetrating weapons for the four branches of land, sea, and air rockets, of which eight types of ground-penetrating bombs are extremely powerful.
At the Zhuhai Air Show in 2014, the GB1000 series 1000 kg aviation-guided bombs were exhibited. This series of bombs can attack large-scale solid ground targets, such as underground command centers, reinforced hangars, and transportation hubs, with all-weather combat capabilities. Judging from the existing public information, domestically-made earth-boring weapons have been serialized.
At the 2016 Zhuhai Air Show, China's new small-diameter precision guided munitions became one of the hot spots of the air show. Although the total weight of this kind of ground penetrating bomb is less than the US military's 2.3-ton GBU-28 "bunker crusher" (also known as the bunker killer), the appearance of the GB1000 indicates that the Chinese Air Force has attached great importance to its ability to strike against enemy underground targets. The U.S. GBU-28 ground penetrating bomb attacking an underground target can penetrate 30 meters of soil or 6 meters of reinforced concrete.
In 2018, the aviation industry department announced a shot of a domestic ground-penetrating missile attacking an underground target. From the shape of the projectile, it can be judged that this is a kind of A new type of missile that is different from the common ground-penetrating laser-guided bomb.
From the key shots of the missile attack, it can be seen that the missile has penetrated into the target at an almost vertical angle. This attack angle has a strong penetration capability and can effectively evade the interception of anti-missile systems. From the penetration video analysis, this is not a heavy/large burrowing ammunition, which can effectively strike targets such as airports, hangars, bunkers, and tunnels.
From the perspective of China’s current security environment, ground-penetrating missiles will be very effective against fortified and underground military installations. It can greatly reduce the number of aircraft sorties required to destroy these targets with ordinary ground-attack ammunition.
The GB1000 bunker penetrating smart bomb weighs 1 ton. NORINCO did not disclose detailed information about the bomb, only that it could penetrate 30m of soil, 6m of concrete. In the framework of the 2016 Zhuhai Airshow exhibition, Chinese defense corporations, especially the North China Corporation (NORINCO), launched dozens of new-generation weapons, notably a cluster of bombs, of unprecedented diversity.
