ZALA Lancet attack drone. © Marina Lystseva/TASS
On January 4 and 5, Russian sources shared videos documenting three recent strikes with Lancet loitering munitions on equipment of Kiev forces in the special military operation zone in Ukraine.
The strikes destroyed an American-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery radar installed on the rooftop of a public building, a Ukrainian-made Kozak-2 armored vehicle that was carrying ammunition and a modified SUV similar to the ones usually used by Ukrainian special operations forces and foreign mercenaries.
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 40 minutes and a three-kilogram warhead and the larger Izdeliye-51 that has an endurance of an hour and is armed with a warhead weighting five kilograms.
Both versions are equipped with an electro-optical system that allows them to detect, track and lock on static and moving targets.
Due to their low-flying profile, small radar cross-section and minimal infrared signature, loitering munitions like the Lancet are extremely hard to intercept.
The Russian military expanded the use of Lancet loitering munitions against Kiev forces in the last few months. There have been around 90 documented strikes by the system since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
No doubt the last eight years since the US coup in Kiev have seen an unrelenting improvement in the lives of Ukrainians. They really consolidated the “national identity” in Donbas, and also particularly in Crimea. Standard of living is just sky-rocketing, what with the electrical infrastructure crippled, millions of refugees, economic paralysis, capital flight of the crooked elites, and boundless debt to the imperial bankers. Not to mention tens of thousands of dead. Good times.
No video just a blank white space between text
I don’t have a video either.
Same to me for several days.
At me, all 3 videos work fine. I pen them into a new tab, to can see into full-screen to can see details
I had to use a different browser to see them.
I’ve seen all of them. That’s not SF this is your browser censoring what you can watch. So called western civilization became more Orwellian1984 than Soviet Union.
Yup, you have to burn out all the google cookies, turn off location, shut off bluetooth, or just watch on Marine1063 on brighteon.com
So we won. Not yet? Are we waiting for next new year?
Nice and effective toy, have to give u guys that.
Obviously no fan of SF, nevertheless it is still interesting (and necessary) to see the Russian side since both sides do heavily propaganda. I wont see these images on the Ukrainian side.
Anyway, Ukrainian side is claiming they will start a new major offensive after the winter and cutting the Russian front in to two. Wonder wether Russians will able to hold their lines and if not, with what kinda propaganda will both sides come up with.
first and second targets was destroyed. Second was waw. Third target look to be only hit, but not destroyed. Hope the new 5 kg warhead will work better thsn older 2.5 – 3 kg.
10 points for Kozak’s flamboyant departure.