ZALA Lancet attack drone. © Marina Lystseva/TASS
The Russian military have foiled attempts by Kiev forces to build fortifications in two directions within the special military operation zone, destroying several engineering vehicles with Lancet loitering munitions.
Two diggers, a bulldozer, a crane and a truck were destroyed close to the settlement of Shevchenkove in the Sumy direction and in the outskirts of the settlement of Krasnyi Lyman in the direction of Donetsk. Video footage showing the strikes surfaced online on August 7.
The ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s defense giant Kalashnikov Concern, produces two versions of the Lancet: the Izdeliye-52 with an endurance of 30 minutes and a one-kilogram warhead, and the larger Izdeliye-51 that has an endurance of 40 minutes and is armed with a warhead weighing three kilograms. Both versions were used in the strikes near Shevchenkove and Krasnyi Lyman.
The Lancet flies towards the designated area with a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. After arriving in the area, the operator utilizes an onboard electro-optical system via a two-way data-link to detect, track and lock on the target. A laser-ranging system then controls the detonation of the warhead.
Ukrainian attempts to stop Lancet loitering munitions with air defense fire, electronic warfare or counter-measures have so far been mostly unsuccessful.
According to Lostarmour.info, a website that documents military losses, Lancet strikes have destroyed or damaged more than 60 engineering vehicles of Kiev forces since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine more than three years ago.
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the kremlin has said that russia will no longer support countries that are not working in russias interest as they give out but get little back .i am glad russia has woken up to the truth.
doctor kissinger admitted that the transfer of non native people into traditional countries was the biggest mistake of the eugenics cult: trump is only here to correct that mistake henry pointed out. president putin is in grave jeopardy if he takes the lure to leave the safety of the federation.
if that “federation ” includes countries getting cheap energy while supplying weapons to ukraine or russia protecting countries that are violate or working with the west then that is no federation but backstabbers.
russia itself is federative republic like the us and germany + many other states.
it seems also to me that this whole urgent leader meeting is a trap and the latest desperate attempt at the west not losing the war.
the west has proved completely unfazed by committing crimes against humanity and using diplomacy as a cover for sneak attack and then committing war crimes.
in 2025, there should be no reasons that this kind of negociations cannot be held on an internet red phone.
alright! would we see extraction of all anglos, germans, italians, dutch people back to europe? both americas is the land of native indians.
afu is in an orc killing frenzy!!!
heheheh
they kill their very own. how many orkrainians have been murdered by their barrier troops / rear “guard”. fuck the ukrojunta and frag these barrier troops traitors to their country and race (‘slavs’)
operating heavy machinery while being ukromilitant is going to be a dangerous occupation.
the drone era has made building fortifications a fool’s errand.
anyway it’s much better than to hide inside armored vehicles. towed artillery got the 2nd breathing, it’s less vulnerable than self-propelled, if to place a howitzer in closed fortified pit.
western propaganda will most likely tell, that evil russians are hunting civilian excavator operators…
operators have a chance to escape, as i’ve seen in some videos, while ukronazis firing at ambulance vehicles and tv/press with no regret. that’s how western advisers trained them.