Posted on 10/09/2021 6:49:54 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Videos released by Russian media
show that Russian special forces have combat tested small, catapult-launched loitering munitions—or “kamikaze drones”—in the Syrian civil war in 2019 and 2020.
Reportedly, the twenty-six-pound Lancet-3 drones built by ZALA-Kalashinkov have performed “dozens of precision strikes” with “high efficiency.”
Though the Russian military has made effective use of surveillance drones in Ukraine and Syria for targeting lethal air and artillery strikes, it has lagged far behind China, Israel and Turkey in fielding loitering munitions and unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs). Thus the report may mark Russia’s first combat use of a purpose-designed loitering munitions.
One video shows the “first person” view from the Lancet-3’s video feed as it dives towards a truck allegedly used by a local commander of the HTS rebel group in Idlib province. The feed cuts ominously as the drone’s onboard warhead detonates.
Footage from another drone observing the attack shows the Lancet-3 smack into the ground in front of the truck (seemingly a near miss), its six-pound warhead exploding with a bright flash.
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That is so…Russian.
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That’s what I call super sporting clays fun.
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Seems like a good idea
Betcha thought the military tactics shown in the scifi movie “Enders Game” was just Scifi didn’t you?
So how many claymore drones can the 500,000 cargo containers parked off the East and West cost launch? Good thing 4G and 5G has highly reliable and accurate coverage in every major city in the US. USAF GPSII is in place and accurate to a couple feet for navigation. It’s all good.
If a goose can take down an airliner, one of these in an attacking jet’s intake will do the job. Solar power them and you can have hundreds loitering over a likely approach vector.
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