The new aerial bombs – known as Drel – can be dropped by a bomber jet without entering enemy airspace as the bomb itself can glide for dozens of kilometres.
A single cluster of sub-munitions from the bomb would be capable of taking out 10 armoured tanks, according to Russian mouthpiece Sputnik.
The bombs are also virtually invisible to radar with heat-seeking elements and it is immune to radio-electronic countermeasures.
The Drel is also a stealth bomb, which means that it will not be detected by infrared-homing antimissiles.
The head of Russian munitions developer Techmash, Vladimir Lepin, described ‘Drel’ as a “gliding bomb cartridge with a caliber of 500 kilograms, equipment with self-targeting combat elements”.
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Tests of the new bomb began in 2018 and it is set to be adopted into military practice this year after some more trials.
Techmash said that their bomb is capable of gliding dozens of kilometres and hit armoured vehicles, ground-based radars, command posts and power units of anti-aircraft missile systems with high precision.
The new bomb has no engine and can detect the target with the help of GLONASS guidance system.
It weighs 540 kilograms and has the maximum bombing altitude of 14 kilometres (the minimum – 100 meters).
The news of the new weapon comes as the Russian military repelled an attack from militants in Syria over the weekend.
Extremists launched a series of drones at the Russian Kheimim Airbase in the Syrian Latakia province.
All of them were detected by anti-aircraft defence systems, and seven of them shot down.
The Russian Ministry of Defence reported that there were no casualties in the attempted attack.
In a statement, the MoD said the “first time that terrorists massively used unmanned combat aerial vehicles of an aircraft type that were launched from a distance of more than 50 kilometres, and operated using GPS satellite navigation coordinates.”
Last month, the Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria, adding that a smaller presence of the Russian forces would be required in the area following the defeat of ISIS.