MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA – JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS
The number of Russian strikes against Kiev forces with Lancet loitering munitions documented by Lostarmour.info, a website that tracks military losses, has reached 1,503 by April 27.
The website began documenting Lancet strikes based only on visual evidence, like videos and photos, with the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago. The rate of documented strikes increased significantly in the last few months.
There were only 63 documented strikes in December, compared to 141 in January, 160 in February and 177 in March. This month, 146 strikes have been documented, so far.
According to a summary provided by the website, Russian Lancet strikes have so far destroyed or damaged: 257 self-propelled howitzers; 277 towed howitzers; 36 multiple rocket launchers; 211 main battle tanks; 127 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers; 77 air defense systems and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns; 79 radars electronic warfare and communication systems; 15 boats and three warplane.
Lancet loitering munitions have been also used to target three buildings, four positions and eight gatherings of troops in the special military operation zone.
These numbers include only the documented strikes which seriously damaged the target or resulted in its complete destruction.
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.
So far, Ukrainian attempts to stop Lancet loitering munitions with air defense fire, electronic warfare or countermeasures have been mostly unsuccessful.
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to be stupid like me you must sniff glue lick peniz and join church of money—morality ios money
that lancet drone looks delicious. i wonder if they’d let me ride one up my hiney?
i document more strike on my azz by taliban gays–diaper in amerika paid by my bf jens holm
afrer the blinken de facto regime personally threatened & insulted china in its own land, it would be legitimate & necessary for the 5000 year middle kingdom of china to teach the anglosaxon north american new kids in the block a lesson on manners. starting with directly mass producing lancet, other advanced drones & other weapons systems. the 95 billion $$ in aid would not last very long + it would eventually bankrupt the money printing us ponzi scheme
blinken goes to bed every night asking why god made him into such a fool.
well chinese drones killed many people in the ukrainian war but those were russians cause they sold tons of civilian drones to ukraine before and throughout the war where the ukrainians attacked grenades or explosives to while denying russia more and more multi use stuff cause the chinese oligarchs feer to lose out on those prescious dollars. i hope to god russia will deny china stuff when their ships are sunk and planes shot down by the us around taiwan.
“-russia is an invencible war machine.”
amnerika humiliated by taliban invincible to submissive dane
that’s in the magnitude of homeopathy. at first glance, i expected “per day”. reading “during the whole smo” is a bit… how to say it mildly?… disappointing. the russians will have to extend that at least by two zeros to become a game changer.
of course, it may be that the “lostarmour.info” portal registers only a tiny fraction of actually happening strikes.
so, that makes 5 million bucks in drones that took out 50 billion bucks in equipment.
my goodness, that’s impressive.
tak to sa musí uznať, je to ozaj veľmi pôsobivé číslo!!! raz darmo ruský človek je vzdelaný a je zároveň aj vynaliezavý. a hlavne dokáže neustále zdokonaľovať, to čo vytvoril.