Katana VentraIP

PBK-500U Drel

The PBK-500U Drel (Russian: Дрель, lit. "drill") is an inertial and GLONASS-guided cluster glide bomb developed by the Russian Federation, designed to destroy enemy armored vehicles and buildings. Drel is equipped with friend or foe identification system and electronic countermeasures making it resistant to jamming and radar detection and is being introduced to the Russian military in 2024.[1][2][3][4][5] Bazalt considers equipping Drel with a pulsejet engine to increase its range.

PBK-500U Drel

Glide bomb

Russian Federation

2024-present

See Users

NPO Bazalt

2016

NPO Bazalt

2024 (planned)

See Variants

540 kg

30–50 km

Up to 50 km

14 km

Inertial guidance/GLONASS

Aircraft

Altitude: 14 km

Range: 30–50 km

Weight: 540 kg

15 self-targeting anti-tank SPBE-K with a twin-band (3–5 μm and 8–14 μm) infrared seeker and a millimetre-wavelength radar seeker with an identification of friend-or-foe (IFF) system

submunitions

Other types of munitions are under development

– (United States)

AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon

Convention on Cluster Munitions