Lancet-3, screen grab from Russia-24 report.
The Russian military continues to use Lancet loitering munitions to target and destroy high-value Ukrainian military equipment.
On January 18, a video showing a recent Lancet strike on a Ukrainian 1B44-1 radar surfaced online. The strike reported took place on Kherson front.
The 1B44-1 is a weather radar for radiosonde observation. The radar measures wind direction and speed, relative humidity, temperature and pressure. This data is collected by radiosondes, small instrumentation packages that emit radio signals, carried aloft by balloons.
The collected data is used for gunnery, launching of missile and multiple rocket systems; calculation of contamination areas; weather forecast; aviation flight support.
The ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s defense giant Kalashnikov Concern, produces two versions of the loitering munition, the Izdeliye-52 with an endurance of 40 minutes and a three-kilogram warhead and the larger Izdeliye-51 that has an endurance of an hour and is armed with a warhead weighting five kilograms.
Both versions are equipped with an electro-optical system that allows them to detect, track and lock on static and moving targets.
The low-flying profile, small radar cross-section and minimal infrared signature of the Lancet makes it extremely hard to intercept.
Ukraine received several electronic warfare, counter drone and air defense systems from its allies in the West over the last few months. However, its forces are still highly vulnerable to Russian loitering munitions like the Lancet, which continue to cause heavy losses.
God Bless Russia 🇷🇺!
Once larger drones are able to launch stealthy Lancets the HIMARS will be history.
It looks fairly cold there. Maybe the operators appreciated a fire?
Everyone calls them World Wars, but it would be more accurate to describe them as European wars of colonial dominance. They all have become accustomed to plundering the world and living at its expense, so much so that they consider any conflict of theirs to become the worlds foremost concern. Can’t really blame them, for half the planet is named after a shady European slaver named Amerigo Vespucci. Tell me, how many other continents are named after some shady guy and who decided this? Anyway, in each case Russia finds itself unwittingly pulled into aforementioned conflicts. In the latest two iterations of The European Wars it was and will be Russian weapons that decide the outcome.
America was being travelled long before Vespucci and Colombus.
Correct. That’s his entire point. The Anglo is at war with the world. Plundering and enslaving. Only by weaponry and co-operation will the other races be able to defend themselves against the Anglo.
Anglo is mearly the Muscle. This is a Jewish agenda.
Great music in video clip.
Music makes them look and sound like a video game which IMO is a tad disrespectful to the people dying.
Glory to Ukraine!
Is that a joke? If not, get help!
Excellent work by the Russian military…Two thumbs up – Roger Ebert
Well done Russia!
Love You Lancet
The operators still escape !!! Use bigger explosifs, so the operators are gone whit the target. Same when targetting the howitsers, you see them running before impact or after because the litle explosion.