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 so far destroyed more than half of the American-made M109 self-propelled howitzers supplied to Kiev forces using Lancet loitering munitions, the ZALA Aero Group, which produces the unmanned system, revealed on June 6, citing information from Lostarmour.info, a website that documents military losses.
Since the start of the Russian special military operation more than three years ago, Ukraine has reportedly received over 160 M109 howitzers of the A3GN, A4, A5Öe, A6 and L variants from the United States and other backers. According to Lostarmour.info, 90 of these howitzers were hit by Lancet loitering munitions.
“The Lancet systems have proven themselves to be one of the most effective means of destroying foreign-made self-propelled guns,” ZALA said in a post to Telegram.
Video footage shared by ZALA along with the post showed some 25 being badly damaged or completely destroyed by Lancets.
ZALA produces two versions of the Lancet, 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 three-kilogram warhead.
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 intercept.
Lancet strikes have destroyed or damaged at least 45 tanks of Kiev forces since the start of the special military operation, According to Lostarmour.info.
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ukraine is bankrupt. it is only a matter of time until this fake country collapses. created by a ukrainain – khrushchev and destroyed by a ukrainian – zelensky. ukrainians bear all the hallmarks of jews and gypsies, not in the business of nation building
ukraine has lost ( destroyed) the antonov, motor sichs, yuzmash, malyshev plants….it means almost all industrial capabilities..
iran’s irib state tv announces that iran has obtained several thousands of extremely sensitive israeli ingelligence files and data, including highly classified documents related to its nuclear weapons program at dimona
the operation was carried out several months ago by iran’s ministry of intelligence and the irgc intelligence organization, employing spies directly inside israeli territory, who retrieved the data and made sure it was transfered to secure locations in iran.
the operation is reportedly israel’s largest intelligence failure in history. the retrieved material consists of documents, images, videos, metadata, files, and other data.
an anonymous iranian military official describes the data — ‘as sensitive as it gets’, stating that the location of some of israel’s strategic nuclear assets may have been exposed.
the main source is from islamic republic of iran broadcasting (irib) (note, those are not my comments but i copy-paste from mes telegram channel – iranian telegram channel).
knowing that it is most likely true tho and let’s wait and see what they got really, but most likely they wouldn’t share everything ofc. also, i don’t know how the us-iran talks are going (zero enrich uranium is a no from iran)… we all know it is not going to happen (most likely).
iran will be attacked by the joos in every ways possible. never trust them. ever.
i remember the cia had hacked / remote control of the centrifuges via the windows os a few years back . israel does not use windows software
apparently the global economy is a no-go zone on sf.
the global economy has banker rule . brics nations and new payment systems are not recorded by this .
the trump white house will be inspected by ghassan alian of the idf because three little druze girls and six big druze girls are missing.
howitzers are now obsolete ?