ZALA Lancet attack drone. © Marina Lystseva/TASS
The Russian military has successfully targeted two of the Ukrainian Navy remaining vessels using Lance loitering munitions.
The vessels were docked at a small port near the settlement of Elevatorne in the Mykolaiv region. Video footage showing the strikes was posted to social media on March 9.
The first vessel, an American-made 40 Defiant small patrol boat, was destroyed in the attack. At least six boats of this type are in service with the Ukrainian Navy. The second vessel, the Soviet-made Project 1176 landing craft Svatovo, was damaged. Svatovo is the Ukrainian Navy’s only craft of this class.
The Lancet was developed by the ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s defense giant Kalashnikov Concern. The company produces two versions of the loitering munition, 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 weighting three kilograms.
The loitering munition 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.
The small radar cross-section and minimal infrared signature of the electric-powered loitering munition makes it very difficult to detect and intercept.
According to Lostarmour.info, a website that tracks and documents military losses, the Russian military has so far targeted 12 vessels of the Ukrainian Navy using Lancet loitering munitions. The number includes the last two struck in Elevatorne.
the enemy sinks half of the russian fleet, including the powerful cruiser moskva. to get revenge, the russians sink a ukrainian fishing boat…
they leveled the warehouse and the personnel making said navel drones in odessa, thrice. the russians also leveled the patriot battery responsible for downing the russian transport and aowac planes, along with its us operators. how about that? lol, half the russian fleet eh? you mean the half the americans can’t even find cause they’re hidding at dept off the us coast loaded to the tits with nuclear missiles, ya’ll can’t shoot down. how bout dat…?
maybe my expectations are too high, but why russia doesn’t have saturation coverage of the front with both isr and attack drones is a mystery that costs thousands of russian lives.
so, you want the russians to go full ‘gaza’ on the ukies ? they’d have to hire some psycopathic talmudic jewbois to handle that. the russians are christian, and when they accidentally kill civilians it really is an accident and really is regrettable; unlike the jews, who apparently revel in it.
what are you talking about civilians? have you not seen any video of russian attacks where they take casualties?
we see drones taking out afu soldiers, apcs, and tanks, so we know they can. why do they not have drones clear out enemy forces in a given area before or as russian humans advance.
christen sind jüdische vasallen im geiste
stupidity—“to be strong everywhere is to be strong nowhere”. sun tzu…the stupid germs lost ww2 due to this approach…”to strike often and hard never wins–only to strike true does”. balzac
how can russia sink half of “the ukra navy fleet” if the ukras dont have a navy fleet to begin with? cope nazi. you germans will have to be denazified once again
“sinks half of the russian fleet”, where have you red these stories, on cnn?
that fishing boat was 90% of ukraine’s navy lmao
besser sind landdrohnen wie puppenwagen und finden platz hinter jedem leo
in jan 1945 nazi retardz like you were still taking about the “inevitable victory”…
cia did not teach you math–now your senility same as holm jens
as long as we ignore the truth and embraced lies to be seen as good distruction will always folow.
why russia left sea access from where uctaine can use seadrones against russian ships?
its becuase you are lied for.
third vessel is shown in the video burning nicely, as is half the area. looks like the day shift drank too much the night before…
ukras has landed at the bridge again. they use wests?
no they have many more boats. putin is told there are none left in krenky. ghostbusters?
illiterate holm a parody
wot n dun is a mckrenky?
jens holm retired toilet scrubber brigade diaper mercenaries paid by cia to post at south front—current members; stupo kierleis saxon sawyer poko molo imho
to je slabá útecha na to koľko stratili ruské námorné sily. banderovskí fašisti už nemali mať prístup k čiernemu moru!!! svetu mier!!!
5 years ago ukraine navy consisted of mainly vessels that did not function—moron amereikan and english have since provided them small boat drones etc. this matters only for idiots like jens—it is the russian army dominance that assures nato humiliation in ukraine
seedrohnen einfach mittels netze anfangen!