Russian Su-25 participates in airstrike campaign in Syria.

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the withdrawal of troops from Syria, after the airstrike campaign was considered successful in this country.

The `miraculous` technology that helps Russia achieve this unthinkable is the Special Subcomputer System (SVP-24), Russian news site Saker said.

According to Saker, to be able to drop unguided bombs on targets most accurately, older aircraft need to fly slowly and low.

To destroy important targets such as enemy headquarters and bridges, two new types of bombs have been developed: laser-guided bombs and image-guided bombs.

The advent of satellite navigation technology has opened a new era for guided weapons because of their very high accuracy and independence from weather conditions.

To solve this problem, the US military has developed JDAM smart bombs to turn `non-intelligent/unguided` bombs into `smart/guided` bombs by attaching a control device.

Russia has a much better solution, the SVP-24 system.

The operating mechanism of the SVP-24 system is that it continuously measures the distance of the aircraft and the target using the global satellite positioning system GLONASS, measuring environmental parameters such as pressure, humidity, air movement.

The self-calculating system then provides `specification limits` for speed, altitude and cruise, allowing non-intelligent bombs to be automatically released at the right time so that it hits the target with

With the SVP-24 system, the pilot does not even need to care about targeting to drop bombs, but just needs to enter the target coordinates into the system and control the aircraft according to the corridor outlined by SVP-24.

The most outstanding feature of this system is that it can be used to bomb from altitudes above 5,000 m, beyond the range of man-portable anti-aircraft missiles (MANPAD).

The SVP-24 system is said to be able to automatically calculate when to drop bombs and hit the target.

Currently, the SVP-24 system is integrated on fighter aircraft such as Su-24 fighter-bombers, Su-25, Mig-27 attack aircraft, Tu-22M3 bombers, Ka-50, Ka-52 helicopters.

Not groundbreaking technology

According to defense analyst Michael Peck of the National Interest, this Russian technology is not new and the article published by Saker is simply a proud story about the simple, `superior` Russian design.

In essence, the Russian SVP-24 system is no different from an automatic bombing system with the aircraft doing the calculation and the bomb being dropped according to what the aircraft instructs.

The sad thing is that these bomb targeting devices constantly make mistakes.

Unguided bombs were used by Russia in its air campaign in Syria.

The advantage of smart bombs is that they are precisely guided to their target, meaning one bomb can perform tasks that a full-scale raid would be difficult to accomplish.

In case they realize the bomb will not hit the target, the pilot has no other way to change its trajectory, making the risk of the bomb causing unexpected damage very high, said expert Peck.

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