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
On December 5, Russia’s Izvestia released footage documenting recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions on Ukrainian radars and air-defense systems in the special military operation zone.
The footage shows strikes on a P-18 long-range VHF radar and a 36D6 long-range surveillance and missile control radar as well as a dual attack on a moving S-300PS long-range air-defense system. A 5N63S fire control radar and a 5P85D transporter erector launcher of the system were targeted.
The ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s defense giant Kalashnikov Concern, produces two versions of the Lancet, the Izdeliye-51 and Izdeliye-52. Both versions are equipped with an elector-optical system to detect, track and lock on static and moving targets.
The Izdeliye-52 is the base version of the Lancet with an endurance of 40 minutes and a three-kilogram warhead, while the larger Izdeliye-51 has an endurance of an hour and is armed with a warhead weighting five kilograms.
The small radar cross-section and minimal infrared signature of the Lancet makes it extremely difficult to track and intercept.
Ukraine received several air defense and electronic warfare systems from the United States and other NATO states recently. However, is still struggling to counter the threat of Russian loitering munitions, which inflicted heavy human and material losses on its forces in the last few months.
It’s worth noting that the Russian military has been employing other types of loitering munitions like the ZALA Aero Group’s KUB-BLA and the Geranium-1 and 2 which are thought to be copies of Iran’s Shahed-131 and 136.
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This has to be part of phase 1…🤔
Russians are degrading the Ukrainian army,soon they will not have the ability to fight.
They are already starting to lose the ability. They literally have been using wave tactics to keep the front lines in check. Bakhmut for example seems to have Ukrianians flooding in constantly, yet lose a city block or 2 almost every day
Yeah maybe as early as sundown…
The technology of the East is superior to that of NATO and company. Attack drones are elusive, dodge, fly very low, and American Patriot anti-aircraft missiles, etc. etc. they are of no use. Death comes like a hawk. Poor fighters for evil governments…….. die with a bang and no honour.
you must be dreaming that dream when russia won in 2 weeks..
they look inaccurate
Somebody needs a few more hours on MS Flight Simulator.
Looks are deceiving, a few kilograms worth of explosive is enough to warp and destroy artillery even though it’s not fully obliterated, there will be no retrieval or in-field repairs, too great a risk of recovery crews being killed.
All it takes is a small amount of explosive to render millions of dollars worth of military assets to garbage in a field, more wasted EU and NATO money.
I wonder how many more months U.S taxpayers will tolerate this? Probably not much longer.
They’re already trying to prepare in some states for the inevitable civil war that is coming, oregon is a good example, they’re doing it because they know that what is coming, that I might add is enshrined in the constitution will make January 6th look trivial.
In the US there has been one million guns sold every month for the past 38 months.
Seriously? I mean, after seeing some videos sometimes it does look like the warheads are lacking in power. In some cases you see drones dropping grenades on soldiers and they seem to get away from it, though i suspect that they’re probably hit with shrapnel or something. These lancet drones are using what? High explosive, fragmentation warheads? Or shaped charges for armoured vehicles?
That a boy. Take out the radar with dirt cheap drones and then go for the irreplaceable power-energy infrastructure. Slava Putin Slava Bashar Hafez al-Assad.
No video showing just blank space
Lots of posts with same issue
Just add more power in forM of explosives to these drones. MOST OF THESE STRIKE ARE noT COMPLETELY DeSTROYING THIER TARGETS. I hope they completely destroy or damage ,partial hits will give nothing ,it will only be a lost opportunity.
Might I suggest attacking moving trucks from behind so they can’t swerve.
Millions of dollars destroyed by thousands of dollars of remote control explosive.
The EU and the U.S are bleeding money and losing critical assets at a rate that cannot be sustained.
Even though these assets aren’t totally destroyed, it is too risky too complex to do in-field repairs, all of this very expensive equipment is now scrap for a very low cost to effort ratio for Russia.
There is no amount of money now that can save NATOs effort to assist Ukraine.
Epic footage. Much more impressive than a cruise missile cruising through Iraq. The Russian admin have their information counterintelligence well up to par with the west.
when ukraine reduced to Stone Age Jens send cheese— former eastern ukraine now western Russia
Most missed targets. One hit the phased array radar. Crews are the well trained. At least this crew. Russia wants to win a war or play video games with live ammunition. Seeing videos like this makes you wonder if the official damage assessments and battle reports are accurate.
Sure they are not, but it happens in every war.
In those video you can see 4 lancets hits: 2 radar with total success; a mobile truck-radar missed but probably damaged; and a TEL surely damaged if not destroyed (if there is some fire after).
I dont’ know how does it cost a Lancet, but the planar antennae of the modern radar hit is already some million dollar worthing.
About the Lancet, there are in SF a lot of other videos, as example MT-LB, SA-13, and even M109 and T-80 hit and often on fire after the impact.
These drones may have been in the air some time judging by the video. It does seem as if the Russian crews were waiting for the column to clear the houses. Maybe some drones were running out of puff by then.