Rare footage shows the remote exploding of the warhead of the Russian Lancet barrage ammunition on approach to its target, which is hit by a cumulative jet.
In spring 2023, before the Ukrainian counter-offensive began, Russian sources close to the military reported that up to 45% of towed howitzers and self-propelled artillery units manufactured by NATO countries that were destroyed in Ukraine, were hit by Lancet UAVs.
Usual targets for the Lancet are enemy command and observation posts, enemy manpower, as well as howitzers, air defense systems, radar stations, MLRS etc, that are hit at a range of up to several tens of kilometers. Depending on the type of target, the drone carries a combat load weighing up to 3 or 5 kilograms. There can be three types of them, including high-explosive, cumulative or thermobaric loads.
Ukrainian servicemen attempt to hide their heavy equipment on the frontlines, covering it with a metal mesh, which is senseless. Lancet’s fuse is triggered a few meters before the target, and burns it down with a cumulative jet.
in this video you can see the tree hit about a dozen meters away and the heat jet strike the afv probably penetrating it. but definitively not senseless as the warhead is triggered by impact and the mdtal nets can sometimes catch the lancet avoliding the explosion or causing it well away from the target.
you can see the projectile come out the right front. flames shot out of the drivers turret. no one survived if they were in that vehicle.
not assured, and if there was a direct impact the effects would have been greatly increased. for what are meant, the side skirts in the tanks? for the same purppuse, as a typical warhead pg7 can loose half of its power after just 1 meter. lancet iis better but with the same effects, just the modern heat warheads are better focused and loose less power with range, but yet they lost a lot
remember, the basic. version of rpg rocket penetraded about 250-300 mm but on!y 150 mm at 1 m, 100 mm at 1.5 m, and only 25 mm at 3.6 meters. the same can be saiid of any heat warhead, including those in the lancet.
yes, but the rpg warhead has, if i am not mistaken, 650 grams of explosives, this thing has 4-5 times bigger warhead, enough for killing from distance…
i did not said that a standoff cannot kill a target, but still, the power is sharply reduced by range, and the fuse is not triggered before the impact.
shaped charge jets have an optimum standoff, just look at the rpg-7 warhead. this lancet is more likely to have an explosively formed projectile. the nets just help to impede the crew from bailing out.
not, simply exploded impacting the tree about 10 meters away, but still the heat slug reached the target. moreover, an epf usually is detonated above the target, not in the flanks, see tow 2b missile as example.
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88? the moment will come when the russians will denazify your poor nazi ass…
television news believer huh 😆
okay but what does that have to do with this story? i think you should make a video about that.
200,000 lancets ready to go 1,000,000 in production