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Vyrivniuvach

Ukraine's first home-built guided glide bomb — a clamp-on wing-and-guidance kit that turns a dumb 250-kg bomb into a stand-off precision weapon, the Ukrainian answer to Russia's devastating FAB-UMPK. Declared combat-ready in May 2026; no confirmed strike yet.

Ukraine's first domestically produced guided glide bomb — a clamp-on wing module plus a guidance tail that converts a standard 250-kg bomb into a satellite-guided stand-off weapon. It is Ukraine's answer to the Russian FAB-UMPK glide bombs that have flattened front-line towns. Declared "combat-ready" in May 2026, it has no confirmed combat strike on the record yet, and most of its figures are maker claims.

Overview

The Vyrivniuvach (Вирівнювач — "Equalizer" or "Leveler") is Ukraine's first home-built precision-guided glide bomb, developed by DG Industry through the state Brave1 defense accelerator. Crucially it is a conversion kit, not a standalone munition: a wing module that clamps onto an existing bomb plus a guidance tail that replaces the fins — the same architecture as Russia's FAB-UMPK and the US JDAM-ER, which is exactly the point. Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov declared it combat-ready on 18 May 2026 after roughly 17 months of development, and it had its detailed public/export debut at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris in mid-June. A hard caveat frames the figures below: despite a healthy outlet count, the facts are almost entirely single-origin (the 18 May Brave1/DG announcement plus Eurosatory placards), there is no government datasheet, no test telemetry, no CEP and no confirmed combat use.

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