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Video footage showing a new version of Russian Geran-2 drone successfully deploying PTM-3 scatterable self-liquidating shaped charge anti-tank mines surfaced online on August 10.
The existence of the mine-laying Geran-2 version was first reported by Ukrainian media last week. A photo showing one such drone carrying two KPTM-3 containers, which are used to dispense the PTM-3, was released at the time.
The propeller-driven Geran-2, said to be a copy of Iran’s Shahed-136, has a range of around 2,500 kilometers with a cruise speed of 180 kilometers per hour.
The standard version of the drone is designed for one-way, or suicide, attacks. For that, it is equipped with a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system and a 50 kg warhead. The mine-laying version, however, appears to be equipped with an electro-optical system, including a thermal imager, and a two-way data-link.
The new video shows the drone scattering its PTM-3s on routes used by Kiev forces somewhere in the special military operations zone with a high level of precision. At least two military vehicles are seen getting hit by the mines later in the footage.
The Soviet-designed PTM-3 contains 1,8 kg of TG-40 explosives, a mix of 60 percent RDX and 40 percent TNT. The mine features a unique stamped steel body with notches in its side. These notches allow the mine to produce a shaped charge effect on five sides: four on the sides, and one on the end face.
The mine-laying Geran-2 appears to be reusable. It is likely still an experimental model. However, considering its good performance, it could get mass produced.
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can do alot, good system.
this is insane. makes look ww ii like a middles ages conflict.
radio-models known since that time. attack planes can drop mines too. il-2 can hold tens of small mines (mortar type) and attack column of armored vehicles.
looks like “geranium” can do almost everything, even cooking stakes from pigs.
this can disrupt or destroy supply lines ?