The US is developing a new cheap, low-tech, long-range glide bomb to counter Russia’s deployment of thousands of glide bombs to devastating effect in recent months. The Extended-Range Attack Munition (ERAM) aims to be a low-cost, quick-to-produce air-launched missile with a range of around 460 km, according to a request for information (RFI) first released in January and updated on July 10. Ukraine is on course to produce 1mn drones this year, which have become the backstay of both armies’ military operations, but since the start of this year Russia has taken Soviet-era FAB gravity bombs and s…