Lets say that Poland does come to Ukraine's assistance after purchasing 1000 K-2 tanks from Korea and 250 Abrams from the U.S.
1. A shopping center with an area of about 50,000 square meters was purchased for the production of "Lancets". Not a penny of funds from the Russian budget has been spent on the deployment of this production.
2. A series of combat tests on the fully automatic use of the Lancet UAV has already been conducted.
3. The next generation of "Lancet" will be integrated into swarm, which uses automatic identification and distribution of targets within swarm.
4. The production of "Lancets" has increased by more than 50 times since the beginning of the SVO.
5. Currently, several "Lancets" are already ready for each unit of armored vehicles that Western countries promise to deliver to Ukraine in the future.
6. Currently, there are more than 400 confirmed cases of hitting targets using Lancet UAVs in open sources alone. One of the combat crews claims that they have more than 90 pieces of destroyed equipment on their account - from pickups to radar stations and tanks.
7. Currently, there is interest in export orders of "Lancets" from customers from several continents. Negotiations are underway, but in any case, the main priority is supplies for the Russian army.
The newest technology is Lancet with Convolutional Neural Networking. This is not quite AI, but allows the drone to go into a closed loop mode, where the drones on board computer has an image preloaded on a database, and as the optical sensors capture images, they are run against the database through a system of algorithms to return a positive or negative identification. If the drone registers say a Leopard silhouette, Bradley or a Pzh-2000, the drone will home in on the target once the neural network returns a positive ID. It's essentially a form of image recognition and homing method. You cannot jam such a drone as it is closed loop and not utilizing classical radio control, or any kind of command guidance, nor radar. You can only shoot the drone down.
Over the past two-and-a-half months, the Lancet loitering munition/kamikaze attack drone has wreaked havoc on Ukrainian forces attempting to mount a counteroffensive. Now, Russian drone designers have unveiled a next-gen variant. What are its characteristics? What new additional capabilities...
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Created by ZALA AERO, a Kalashnikov Concern subsidiary based in Izhevsk and specializing in the production of drones and drone jammer systems for both military and civilian applications, Lancets have a flight range of between 40 and 70 kilometers, an endurance time of about one hour, and a weapons payload of between three and five kilograms.
В РФ продолжаются испытания многофункционального ракетного комплекса "Гермес", предназначенного для поражения бронированной техники, сооружений и летательных аппаратов
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In the Russian Federation, tests of the Hermes multifunctional missile system, designed to destroy armored vehicles, structures and aircraft, continue. This was told in the press service of KBP (holding "High-precision complexes" of the state corporation "Rostec").
Work on the modernization of the Hermes complex, as noted, continues taking into account changes in the situation and tasks.
The Hermes complex is designed to defeat at a distance of up to 100 km. The basic version of the rocket reaches speeds of up to 1,3 thousand meters per second, it has a high-explosive fragmentation warhead of 28 kg.
We already witnessed Ukraine's counteroffensive failure of losing all their armoured vehicles to only go just a few kilometers.
wonder how the new drones and hermes systems will be dealt with.
announced that they have handed over to Ukraine two of the promised IRIS-T SLS air defense systems. The SLS version is a mobile, shorter range system, with range up to 12km. The systems are ideal for short range point defense, or protection of strategic assets.
Photos of a Tu-22M3 bomber destroyed yesterday after a drone strike on a military airfield in Soltsy, Novgorod Region, appeared on the network.
