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 damaged or destroyed 45 different targets of Kiev forces using Lancet loitering munitions during March.
The Ukrainian losses, all documented in video by Lostarmour.info, were:
- Seven Self-propelled howitzers, including three Ukrainian-made Bohdana and one Swedish-made Archer;
- Seven towed howitzers, including two American-made M777 and one M198;
- One multiple rocket launcher, an American-made M142 HIMARS;
- Nine Main battle tanks, including one German-made Leopard 1A5;
- Two infantry fighting vehicles, both American-made M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA;
- Two armored personnel carriers, both American-made M113;
- Two armored vehicles, one Canadian-made Roshel Senator and one Turkish-made Kirpi;
- Two engineering vehicle, a Soviet-made IMR-2 and a German-made Wisent 1;
- Two radars, an American-made AN/TPQ-50 and a Soviet-made P-18;
- One electronic warfare system, a Ukrainian-made Bukovel-AD;
- One military boat;
- Nine military vehicles of different types.
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 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.
The small radar cross-section and minimal infrared signature of the electric-powered loitering munition makes it very difficult to detect and intercept. As a result, Ukrainian attempts to stop the system have been mostly unsuccessful.
Lostarmour.info only documents strikes based on videos or photos. Many other strikes remain classified, which means the real number of strikes could be much higher.
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in a whole month?
thats not even 2 a day.
it should be 50 a day or this war thats even now going on for to long will go on for many more years.
so boost drone production with nk, iran and china help and end it all asap.
that might be due to fpv drones taking up the lions share.
more explosions on my computer. as soon as i hit play, all 40 vids started playing at full volume.
did you enjoy it ?
dysfuntional page, trying to start all videos automatically at the same time. didn’t watch, because the videos block each other and increase the server load beyond a reasonable level. learn html design or gtfo.
i tried a few together and they worked as a human being with two eyes how can you watch every video at the same time ? every video should be watched individually to take in every moment of the action on it , i know of no government security services that individually as one person tries that as detail of action is lost as the mind cannot cope and therefore correct operation of detection is lost.
45 drone strikes in a month on a front that is over a thousand miles is a sad joke.