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On April 27, the Russian military attacked a Soviet-made S-300PS long-range air defense system of Kiev forces that was recently deployed in the Kherson region with Lancet loitering munitions.
Videos that surfaced online showed Lancet strikes against three 5P85S transporter erector launchers (TELs) of the system. A still photo shows a fourth TEL on fire after a successful strike with the loitering munition.
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A Flakpanzer Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun that was providing protection for the S-300PS system was also targeted with a Lancet.
Ukraine inherited dozens of S-300P, S-300PT, S-300PS and S-300V1 batteries after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Only 40% of Ukrainian S-300 batteries were in good condition prior to the outbreak of the conflict in Donbass in 2014. Afterward, several batteries were brought back to service.
Prior to the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, the country had around 100 batteries of different types in service.
Kiev forces received a single S-300PMU battery from Slovakia after the beginning of the operation. Germany also pledged to provide 50 refurbished Gepard guns.
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.
According to Lostarmour.info, a website that tracks and documents military losses, the Russian military has used Lancet loitering munitions to target 24 air defense systems as well as 21 radar and communications systems of Kiev forces since the start of the special operation in Ukraine last year.
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One day such beautiful birds will fly in apartheid occupied Palestine. Z
Only if iran provides them. Every other country that produces drones is dedicated to the protection of israel.
i doubt very much that “every country is dedicated”! I can already think of a few. Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Turkey. Those are the obvious ones. Then you have the less obvious ones who like to “keep their friends close but their enemies even closer”!
I have not heard any of the others on your list making their own drones but turkey is a “we talk bad about isreal but work together behind the curtain” kind of country.
Israel was able to train their pilotes using turkish territory cause theirs is to small. Turkey and isreal cooperated in the cases of both georgia and karabakh/ artsakh in both cases against russian interest.
first and third s300 hit seems to hit an empty missile tube, because no explosion, like on the second. also the gepard hit shows only low effect. anyway the first hit on an gepard ever seen, and till now not a single one on a pzh2000, seems ukros hide them wery well. with an at least doubled warhead each strike would be an total destruction, whats important, because ukros pull a lot of heavy armament to poland and the czech for repair and back.
Those vehicles look abandoned the gepard did not even react to the drone despite beeing advertised for shooting them down easily.
how they look ‘abandoned’ when some of them are moving?
The Gepard was moving but the S 300 were not and the Gepard is supposed to protect the other systems from drones and was seemingly not able to spot it or was cought in a situation were it was not prepared similar to syrians who were destroyed while reloading the pantzir.
I heard that Russians have different ways for not fall to hit on decoys AD anymore. For example they observe the target a while and if there is no people operating it and it fires not shots, then most likely they dont target it at all.
A Russian missile attack on the night of April 27 on the territory of a shipyard in Nikolaev neutralized about 20 senior Ukrainian Nazis and foreign NATO officers who were holding a meeting there, media reports in Russia this morning. According to media reports, foreign officers who came under the missile attack were from the USA and Poland. More and more NATO officers are being sent to Bandera.
the air war situation is deteriorating for Ukraine and they are relying on the fantasy of rapidly integrating themselves into NATO’s air defense network even though there’s no time for it and it would take decades even in peacetime. If there is a gap of even a week where Ukraine hasn’t got its Soviet air defenses and the NATO defenses aren’t set up, things will be so badly destroyed and clobbered that the air defenses will never be able to be restored and will be constantly destroyed when a single one is set up
Ukroids can’t afford these losses, it was a stupid decision to risk them so close to the frontline… probably in order to intercept Ru aircrafts with glide bombs.
Target practice goes on, thanks to nato poodles.
even more destroyed ukr. S-300 in Kherson
https://t.me/CyberspecNews/29200