Ls-6 bombs: Pakistan's Chinese made free-fall weapon

As many as eight Ls-6 bombs were dropped over KPK village by Pakistani fighter jets, killing at least 25 people (All images via X)

LS is an abbreviation for a family of Chinese built precision-guided munitions (PGM) named developed by Luoyang Electro-Optics Technology Development Centre (EOTDC), a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

They are also referred to as Thunder Stone Gliding Guided Bomb, or LS GGB.

According to reports, the LS series is an upgrade kit to modernize gravity bombs with precision/laser guidance, with the kit consisted of two modules, the guidance module and the gliding module.

The gliding module including the folding wings and control surfaces is made of the composite material and aluminum alloys, and comes in different versions for different sizes of gravity bombs. The LS PGB upgrade kit can be fit to iron bombs up to five tons.

When released at an altitude of eleven thousand meters, the maximum range of LS PGB is greater than sixty kilometers.

Chinese media have shown photographs of FT PGB being dropped from helicopters such as Chinese Naval Ka-28, in addition to the fixed-wing platforms.

For the laser guided subfamily of FT PGB based on LT PGB/LGB, neither nose-mounted nor mast-mounted targeting turrets have been specially developed for rotary platforms, but instead, the targeting pods for fixed-wing platforms are carried directly by Chinese helicopters for targeting.