A ground-launched small-diameter bomb
A Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb.
  • Sophisticated US weapons are being jammed by Russian electronic warfare units. 
  • A relatively new US-Swedish bomb has been pulled from use, according to reports. 
  • Russia is able to scramble the GPS signals used to guide the weapons.

A new precision-guided US weapon has been pulled from use by the Ukrainian military because Russia is taking them out using electronic warfare, according to reports.

Ukrainian and Western officials told The Wall Street Journal that the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), manufactured by Boeing and Swedish company Saab, had failed and was no longer in use pending an overhaul.