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 has targeted a German-Made MARS II multiple rocket launcher of Kiev forces using a Lancet loitering munition.
It is unclear when or where exactly the rocket launcher was targeted. Video footage of the strike was first posted on social networks on March 26. At the time, the target was not identified. The video surfaced again on April 23, but this time the target was mentioned. The launcher received a direct hit. However, there were no secondary blasts, possibly because it was not loaded at the time.
The Lancet was developed by the ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s defense giant Kalashnikov Concern. The company 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 around 40 minutes and is armed with a warhead weighting three kilograms.
Both versions are equipped with an elector-optical system and a two-way data-link. This allows them to detect, track and lock on static and moving targets.
The MARS II is the German copy of the American M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) system. The United Kingdom, Norway, France and Germany supplied at least 16 MLRS and MARS II launchers to Kiev forces after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
Each MARS II or MLRS launcher can be armed with up to 12 M30/M31 series GMLRS GPS-guided rockets, which have a range of more than 70 kilometers, or two MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles, which have a range from 165 to 300 depending on the version, in two separate pods.
The Russian military has already destroyed or damaged many of Ukraine’s MARS II and MLRS systems as well as several of around 40 M142 HIMARS -a lighter, wheeled system that fires the same types of projectiles- which were delivered to Ukraine by the United States over the last two years.
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another example of an overpriced, over hyped, propagandized nazi kraut piece of scrap metal. reichsminister goebbels would be proud of today’s kraut liars, hypocrites, interlopers, invaders and propagandists.
give anything to hohols and they will break it or lose. or steal to sold. so don’t blame adolf scholz and von der sula (von der leyen) for hohols’ guilt, we can blame them for supporting nazism, but not for crooked arms of village nazis.
stop selling energy sources to germany they are openly flirting with neo nazism in ukraine and involved in the killing of russians. obama told them they could throw off the stigma from ww2 if they got involved and they did. it’s time to put germany back on her knees and make sure it can never walk again.
why cut of the aftermath seconds? no significant damage visible.
however, these are sensitive devices. if the leopards and abrams stay in their places from a similar hit, then this one too.
better to destroy the weapons shipments to ukra before they reach ukra using sabotage etc. then play dumb “-it was not us” like they played dumb in ns1 and ns2
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my nazi senility offended…i pray to money god for germ infection
i am 0 id nullified by gay uncle hans and transgendereized by perverted mulatto surgeon
we are inferior amerikunt hillbillies stupified immoral humiliated by taliban we require lgbt therapy to address our anxieties fear
many hillbilly amerikan lgbt loiter in my azz
went to amerikan bank today worship money—bank manager/priest forgive me for inferiority nazi mind—refer me to gygpsy astrologer to treat my distorted weak personality
nato recon planes are working round the clock to locate every s-400 and s-300 battery in crimea, in conjunction with ukraine mald-160 decoys to bait the fire control radars
russian air defense should not take the bait and hide their s-400 using camo nets, and using other radars for early warning such as p-18, p-80, p-40, kasta 2e2 so that they can only use their s-400 fire control radars when absolutely needed, otherwise nato will give coordinates to ukraine and atacms will be on their way
as collateral dammadge exist, russia can send killer drones to collaps against the nato and yankee spy planes. they are a legitemate target because of the use for attaking russia.
s-400 is mobile system and can’t be redeployed in several minutes, so it can be used anytime. every battery has not just one point combat duty and change them from time to time + long range systems are covere with medium (“buk”) and shorter (“pantsir’ “, “tor”) range systems for multi-layer defence. it’s not so easy to catch even single obsolete systems of hohols, modern ones with wider range and covering wit radio-electronic countermeasures are even harder to track.
meanwhile in zionazi germanistan grannies are poking in garbage cans for bottles and cans to allow them to eat even as stasi erika merkill’s migrant hordes run riot in the unfortunate wasteland. karma is a heck of a deal.
wonderful products the lancet series. i do hope at least a few of the criminals operating the nazi equipment for the narco reich were sent to hades, and hopefully they suffered severely on their way. this is my prayer for people who commit murder of civilians and children. it is justice as well.