Ukraine Begins Procuring Domestically Produced Vyrivniuvach Guided Aerial Bombs

The Ukrainian guided aerial bomb Vyrivniuvach (also known as Equaliser or Leveller) has already completed testing and is officially being procured for use by the Ukrainian Air Force.

The report was published by Ukrinform, citing Colonel Vladyslav Voloshyn, head of the Central Directorate for Innovation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In addition, Ukraine is currently developing around a dozen promising precision-guided airborne munitions designed to reduce Russia’s advantage in the use of guided aerial bombs.

“Today, about a dozen promising models of this type of weaponry are being developed in Ukraine. All domestic designs are significantly cheaper than their Western counterparts, and this will allow us to rapidly scale up production,” he noted.

Voloshyn added that the Ukrainian Air Force had conducted hundreds of flight sorties to test the latest weapons systems.

Vyrivniuvach

According to its developers, the Ukrainian guided aerial bomb Vyrivniuvach costs about one-third as much as the American JDAM-ER.

The bomb was developed in 17 months by a member-company of the Brave1 defense cluster. The warhead weighs 250 kg. The stated flight range, depending on the employment altitude, is between 10 and 130 kilometers.

It first became known on May 18, 2026, that the Air Force had received a test batch of Ukrainian guided bombs.

“This is not a copy of Western or Soviet designs, but a system developed by Ukrainian engineers to effectively engage targets tens of kilometers inland after release,” then-Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said.

In late June, a video surfaced showing Ukrainian guided bombs, launched from a MiG-29 fighter jet, striking a Russian position on the front lines.

Back in 2024, Serhii Holubtsov, Chief of Aviation of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stated that Ukraine was preparing to test domestically produced guided aerial bombs, with the trials expected to begin “within a few weeks.”

In September 2024, the Telegram channel “Ukrainian Combat Aviation” published a video showing tests of the aerial bomb on a Su-24M bomber.

In June 2025, it was reported that drop tests were being conducted on a Ukrainian counterpart to the Russian UMPK for Soviet-era aerial bombs. According to the developer, the target engagement range was up to 60 kilometers, with plans to increase it to 80 kilometers, or up to 100 kilometers when released from an altitude of 10 kilometers.