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 Russian military continues to hunt down Ukrainian howitzers in the special operation zone with Lancet loitering munitions.
Between April 28 and 30, videos surfaced online showing recent Lancet strikes against an American-made M777 towed 155 mm howitzer, a Soviet-made 2A36 Giatsint-B towed 152 mm howitzer, an American-made M109 self-propelled 155 mm howitzer and two Soviet-made 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled 122 mm howitzers of Kiev forces.
The ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s defense giant Kalashnikov Concern, 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, there have been at least 231 Lancet strikes against Kiev forces since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. At least 42 of the strikes took place during April.
Lancet loitering munitions were used to destroy or damage at least 64 Ukrainian howitzers, including many supplied by NATO states.
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Stop exploding you cowards!
Now that’s what I call asymmetric warfare, yeah baby!
Nr. 5 is a ferocius hole in one.
It was indeed a vicious hit
Zelenskyy’s counter offensive is kaput.
The drone is excellent but the controllers need to get better training. sometimes they miss and other times they hit the self propelled artillery by the tires and that doesn’t bring destruction.
In that 5th video they’re going to need some serious body work.
Disney+++ channel.
In the last one some nazis got toasted big time. Very crispy nazis🤣
Total misses on those first two videos. Poor very poor
Mr Lancet deserves a raise.
first are a miss, last one are fabulous…..
But the last video, the music should be fireworks!
At least one looked like they hit a decoy made of wood, and some of the others may have received a bit of damage … hard to tell … if all you see is a brown dust cloud I think the lancet hit the dirt next to it. But that last one KABOOM … glorious … you can always tell when the secondary explosions start and ammo in the vehicle starts to cook off. No repairing that tracked howitzer. If anyone was inside they are toast.
Video #5 Don’t forget to close the hatch if you leave the tank, (LOL)
Shame we cannot have the Lancet to use against all of our pedos and rapists here in the UK. We would need millions.
Excellent work 🇷🇺💥
One day these beautiful birds will flock all over the khaZar abomination in apartheid, occupied Palestine. Z