Russia’s Lancet Drone Is Hampering Ukraine’s Counteroffensive, Smashing Western Gear and Exposing Poor Air Defenses

In recent weeks Ukraine has been pushing hard to retake ground from Russia, as part of a sweeping counteroffensive.

The full picture is still emerging, but in places it has been a bruising experience.

Russian officials have gleefully shared videos of piled-up wreckage, and often cited as the cause the Russian-made Lancet drone.

The Lancet is a loitering munition made by a subsection of Russia’s Kalashnikov arms manufacturer. It’s new — first used in 2019 — and meant for precision strikes.

James Patton Rogers, a drone expert at the Cornell Tech Policy Institute and the University of Southern Denmark, said that the type being fielded by Russia in Ukraine is the Lancet-3, an upgraded version. (Read more from “Russia’s Lancet Drone Is Hampering Ukraine’s Counteroffensive, Smashing Western Gear and Exposing Poor Air Defenses” HERE)

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