Ukraine has officially commenced the procurement of the domestic “Vyrivnyuvach” guided bomb for deployment by its Air Force following the successful completion of testing procedures. Developed over a 17-month period by a participating company of the Brave1 defense cluster, the precision-guided munition carries a 250 kg warhead and achieves an operational strike range between 10 and 130 kilometers, depending on the release altitude. According to developer specifications, the system costs approximately one-third the price of American JDAM-ER kits.
The acquisition was confirmed by Colonel Vladyslav Voloshyn, Head of the Innovation Department at the Central Directorate of Innovation Activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, citing reporting by Ukrinform. Voloshyn noted that the Ukrainian Air Force conducted hundreds of test sorties to validate the new armament packages. He added that Ukrainian engineers are currently developing roughly a dozen prospective models of high-precision aerial weapons intended to mitigate Russian superiority in guided bomb usage, emphasizing that local designs are significantly less expensive than Western equivalents to enable rapid scaling of production.
The platform first entered service on May 18, 2026, when the Ukrainian Air Force received an experimental batch of the munitions. Then-Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov characterized the system as an original engineering solution rather than a direct copy of Western or Soviet systems, designed to engage targets dozens of kilometers deep into enemy territory.
