The Russian military shared a video of the strike on the MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force with Lancet loitering munition. The fighter aircraft was hit at the Dolgintsevo airfield near the city of Krivyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The declared range of Lancet UAVs is 40-50 kilometers. However, the Dolgintsevo airfield is located about 70 kilometers away from the nearest positions of the Russian Armed Forces. Moreover, the video shows that the Lancet likely turned in the area and approached the aircraft from the north-western direction. Probably, Russian forces used an upgraded version of the strike UAV.
The attack was filmed by another Russian reconnaissance ZALA UAV. The video shows that the Lancet struck near the fore-body of the aircraft. As a result of the strike, the MiG-29 was damaged.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported the destruction of 2 MiG-29 and 3 Su-25 at this airfield. However, the Ukrainian military took no measures to protect the facility from Russian attacks. The video shows numerous car tires near the aircraft. The Ukrainian military probably planned to set fire to cover the airfield with smoke in the case of Russian attack. Ukrainian forces likely did not expect Russian drone strikes at the daytime there.
come on russkis, the thing is as big as a house and you can’t hit it center mass ?
radar and navigation systems have been destroyed…therefore the jet dont fly anymore
a few sensors aren’t difficult to replace especially sourced from the west. mig 29 engines are a different story. if they hit the engines the plane would have to be scrapped. given their piss poor aim it’s repairable
maybe too much protection around the engines? so risk of no damage?
why don’t you show us how it’s done then? you do realise that there is some kind of input lag with a distance of 70km right
the precision of that drone gets a 6/10
russia needs a long range lancet that can hit the su-24 at khmelnytsky
airbase. 40km range lancet can only hit krivoy rog and nikolaev airbases.
frankly range shouldn’t even matter. they could just send in a squad of 2-4 specops members and give them a $200 plastic chinese drone that will fly 3km. they could destroy every single mig that’s in the country during lunch break, but the reason they don’t do it is the same reason they don’t destroy bridges, ships that ferry weapons into odessa or enemy comms/powerplants.
i mean hell, all you would need is a mavic mini with a molotov cocktrail strapped to the underside of the drone, that you fly directly into the jet. but then you’ll probably be wanted by both the us as well as russia for altering the planned trajectory of the war.
more lancets needed to take out remaining mig-29s at krivoy rog airbase
i thought the ukrainian have some hidden planes left not entire working air fields.
it looks like there is no war at all.
compare this to yugoslavia or iraq where they only had left what was hidden well enough
and they had to move their military assets all the time.
i guess when the purpose of the war is depopulation, diminishing the enemy’s combat potential is not a very high priority.
ukraine is going to mobilize another 1.5-2m orcs, including women, and when they’re all dead the mission will be accomplished and the road to nova khazaria will be paved. of course those stupid ukrainians will happily oblige.
exactly, i have explained online it was mission impossible many times even before the offensive started. they keep attacking with this useless strategy so there is a hidden agenda for sure.
whack ass aircraft.
missed…putin needs to be replaced by the ex pm
nice test russia …
the f-16s destruction will be even more fun to watch.
the hit clearly missed its mark and there was another mig in the vicinity, that are two enormous opportunities lost. and even if the lancet had hit it the first one correctly, there should have been a synchronous strike at both targets. you do not rush to hit a mig-29 the same way you hit an apc or a peeing nazi, such targets of opportunity on high-value assets must come with careful planning. decision-making was horrendously amateurish overall. that video shows a big tactical failure.
no it shows input lag over a 70km distance. radio waves travel at 300.000km per second. at 70km of that’s about a 0.0085 seconds. so around 0.02 seconds delay just to send and receive signals, plus whatever time it takes to send, receive and code/decode the video signal. by the time they see the drone is about to miss, the timeframe for correction has closed. not to mention other factors like wind, convection currents.
thanks for replying, and yes i do agree, + there is signal correction packets and fast retransmit algorithms inherent to ip that add even more to that especially when satellites are involved. that was only part of my point. they had a clear fix on an airfield with at least two mig-29s in the open and ukrainians unaware. why not relay the information and target data to the vks for it to deliver a wave of lacms + saturation drone swarm and get guaranteed results ?
they did not take out the second mig so their pilots can have more practice training with next generation jets
naučiť sa pilotovať drony je dosť náročné. musíš mať cit a musíš vedieť rýchlo reagovať. tieto vlastnosti musíš zosúladiť a potom je s teba až dobrý zabijak. všetko potrebuje svoj čas. ruskí vojaci sa cvičia, na to netreba zabúdať. a ešte jedna poznámka, robiť niečo v pohode a robiť to pod tlakom, sú dve rozdielne veci!!!
interesting how neither side has hangars or even a diy roof that covers their aircraft. i mean, everyone from that region has built a carport for their dachas at some point in their lives so it’s not like the idea of a roof over your vehicle is foreign to them.
the footage is not even real!!!!!
you can clearly see the approaching drone coming directly over the engines from the rear yet in the distance and impact footage it is coming wide of the right wing.
would have to assume it totally missed the plane and this footage is a cgi explosion