Chief Designer: New Lancet UAVs will be almost impossible to shoot down

Countermeasures will be practically powerless against the new generation of Lancet UAVs developed by the Russian company ZALA. This was announced on the air of the Vesti Nedeli program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel by its chief designer Alexander Zakharov.

Here is what he had to say about it:

The main advantages of this loitering munition are its ease of use, along with almost complete independence from any countermeasures. Fighting him for enemy UAVs will not be an easy task

During the program, the specialist touched upon the principle of work of the drone. According to him, the Lancets will be activated at the command of the operator, who will determine the area of ​​operation. The choice of the target remains entirely with the kamikaze drone.

As Zakharov clarified, if this UAV selects only “armor”, for example, or cannon artillery as its target in a particular area, then neither people, nor pickups, nor other objects will be endangered.

This drone is programmed to know that air defenses and radars are more expensive devices, so if a tank and a radar get into its field of view at the same time, it will give preference to the radar. All this has already been put into practice.

- said the Russian designer.

Moreover, the means of electronic warfare (EW) will turn out to be ineffective against this loitering ammunition, and the reason for everything is its computing circuit, located right on board. The same can be said about its uselessness in the event that it ends up in the hands of the enemy, who will not be able to do anything with this unmanned aircraft. aviation system (BAS) due to its “number of degrees of protection”.

It should be noted that at present the developers of these UAS are considering the possibility of establishing their production outside of Russia.

For reference: This UAV will be used not only for strike, but also for reconnaissance missions. It can carry high-explosive fragmentation and cumulative ammunition. The usual targets for such drones, as a rule, are howitzers, various radar systems (radar), launchers of air defense systems, combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems of MLRS, command and observation posts, as well as accumulations of manpower.

Comments

[Warrior_II_digit]

New Lancet UAVs will be almost impossible to shoot down

And how soon will it be?

[Fluoride11]

Even now it is very difficult to bring them down, here we are talking about product 53, which, if the enemy is seriously suppressed by electronic warfare, will only send a picture from the camera. Everything else will be done by the program (having received the go-ahead to destroy the target it sees before the flight). I’m much more interested in how a swarm of drones, when exposed to electronic warfare, will exchange information with each other. And so for the 53rd product, this is, to put it mildly, a breakthrough. The real possibilities of manufacturing such drones are interesting, if at least 300-500 per month, then this is a very good help to the front.

[Commissar Kitten]

According to him, the Lancets will be activated at the command of the operator, who will determine the area of ​​operation. The choice of the target remains entirely with the kamikaze drone.

Well, in general, this is counteracted by camera exposure in the optical range.

[KCA]

I wonder what cameras in the optical range will illuminate? Somehow they did not show either our air defense or the enemy, where there are searchlights in thousands of candles. Radar or OLS can be detected, but you also need to have a laser installation, only two Russian laser installations that are in service are reliably known, the rest are cartoons and projectors

[Commissar Kitten]

Quote: KCA

Somehow they did not show either our air defense or the enemy, where there are searchlights in thousands of candles.

Well, drones are not yet guided by automatic pattern recognition. The power of a Chinese 10W laser pointer (defocused for reliable aiming by a not too accurate tracking system) is enough not to burn out the matrix, but to make a continuous spot of light on the matrix.

[Egor Ibragimov]

Well, in general, this is counteracted by camera exposure in the optical range.

Then it is necessary to visit the source of illumination in the first place. And this is not very difficult to implement.

[Commissar Kitten]

This is simple, but it is even easier to carry the source on a tripod away from the protected installation by several tens of meters.

[Yura]

Quote: Fluoride11

The real possibilities of manufacturing such drones are interesting.

The production of Lancets has now grown 50 times, the Obukhov plant in St. Petersburg alone produces 3000 quadcopters per month, and this is not counting other models produced by other enterprises.

[barbos]

the plant in St. Petersburg produces 3000 pieces per month

Do they grow them in the garden from microgreens? Or do sleepy flies collect each screw? At this rate, it's best to just keep quiet.

[Rumata]

Quote: Fluoride11

if at least 300-500 per month, then this is a very good help to the front.

Are you kidding? 10...15 pcs. per day is 1 pc. 100 km front.
You really need 100 times more! Then it would be possible to reach Transnistria already this year.

[skeptic]

Quote: Rumata

You really need 100 times more! Then it would be possible to reach Transnistria already this year.

Not a single "Lancet", the front is holding. And so ... and 1000 times more - it would also be nice. For Transnistria and beyond, in addition to UAVs, operators are also needed, in large quantities, and much more.

[Sergey Egorov_3]

there will be several varieties, a swarm, where there is one lancet, controls tens, or maybe hundreds, is already being tested, if everything is normal, then by January, they will be in service, and this system is simpler, there are new sensors, actually by September put into series

[RED_ICE]

Watch the video on the internet. Shops are packed to capacity

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=my9_wKu5dxg&ysclid=lk9yza0hwr319796999

[Nexcom]

If everything is as beautiful as in words, then such a tool was needed the day before yesterday.
And in significant quantities.

[Dead duck]

There is no one and nothing to produce in "commercial" quantities these "things" and others that the suffering so zealously demand. Calm down already. In order to get everything right, you need 20-30 years and start with kindergartens and schools (for new).
My "office" (where I work) supplies electronic parts and components (assemblies) for ... a lot of things and since we also work with suppliers ... well ... often even elementary things cannot be found or cannot be done and delivered, And this is only part of the problems (trouble). And you - "give more!" ... would be glad ...

[barbos]

everything needs to be adjusted in 20-30 years and start with kindergartens and schools

For 20 years, big people with general stars at point-blank range did not distinguish any drones. So it's not at all kindergartens and schools. Because at the beginning of the SVO, the fighters began to use toy UAVs for other purposes - schoolchildren with their toys turned out to be much more advanced than the nomenclature of the General Staff.
And what about GS? On this site, even after the start of the NWO, there was an invincible group of drone-haters. And absolutely anyone. Even now, according to old memory, some are breaking through and drowning drones with all their might.

[Rumata]

Quote: Nexcom

If everything is as beautiful as in words, then such a tool was needed the day before yesterday.
And in significant quantities.

All claims to the RF Ministry of Defense, which has been fighting UAVs since the 1930s.

[Palestinian]

let them work, the main thing is that they don’t interfere, lancets are already in trend, excellent UAVs

[kebeskin]

This is all good, of course, he would have a longer range and a stronger combat load.

[shikin]

"the range is longer and the combat load is stronger" - this is already a different Lancet, both heavier and more expensive. Maybe it is needed (as an extension of the entire line and capabilities), but such as it is, it copes well with many tasks, and as many of them as possible (along with operators) are needed.

[Rumata]

Quote: kebeskin

This is all good, of course, he would have a longer range and a stronger combat load.

Of course, this is necessary, but mini UAVs like the UAV Cube and more are still needed to work along the trenches of the front of the enemy.

[rocket757]

Chief Designer: New Lancet UAVs will be almost impossible to shoot down

. Okay... practice will show what is possible and what is not possible.
Such drones are already a difficult target, but countermeasures also do not stand still!
That is, against any action, a counteraction will also be found .... as it used to be, something is immediately ahead, and the rest is pulled up behind it.
In general, nothing should remain in place, without development.

[Vadim S]

The algorithm is chic, and most importantly, it does everything on its own, without drowning it out. Here is a very successful one!

[rotmistr60]

along with almost complete independence from any means of counteraction.

We can only congratulate the designer, and wish our fighters further successful use of the Lancet.

[Zaurbek]

Targets for the Lancet are not equipped with air defense systems and are not defended from the air. Electronic warfare can be a hindrance, but you can’t protect every position of howitzers with electronic warfare either ... The Lancet’s strength is in its mass character and this mass character needs to be increased (optimal S / B is also achieved here).

[Oleg Ogorod]

Already written above, production is often limited not by the final assembly, but by the equipment and materials. Which are not enough or are made for a long time. Or import. Which is also not easy.
On the other hand, I (I will not say we) do not know the price of the lancet, I think it is quite exorbitant. And the budget of the Moscow Region is not rubber. Therefore, it is necessary to decide what to order, several hundred shots for 152 howitzers, or conditionally one lancet.
And I think the price of the lancet is set not by military acceptance, but by a private commercial manufacturer. If it's expensive, don't buy. Walk through the market.

[Andy_nsk]

Those. Do you want everything to be fast, high quality and for free? - it doesn't happen. For many years I have been working with the production of radio electronic devices, both in the state. enterprise and LLC. I can compare. At a state-owned enterprise, they can do it for limited money, but it will stretch over many years. They can do a good thing, but in a single copy, they will be taken to exhibitions for another 10 years.
An LLC can do it quickly and efficiently, they can quickly launch mass production, but they won’t work without payment: they have to pay for components, pay salaries to workers and engineers, buy equipment, pay taxes, etc.
And the blame for the fact that the development was not carried out in time and the production of UAVs was not set up, I place entirely on the Ministry of Defense. But I wouldn’t scold them too much, it’s good to be a smart hindsight, now everyone understands the meaning of UAVs, and before the NVO their meaning was not understood in the Moscow Region and the General Staff, the general intellectual and technical level of the stripes affects. For a long time they cannot move away from the stereotypes of WW2 and local conflicts (Vietnam, BV, Afghanistan, Georgia, etc.)

[Ross xnumx]

Chief Designer: New Lancet UAVs will be almost impossible to shoot down

This is a positive, encouraging statement. Let's wait for it to be confirmed by direct users ...

[Nikolaevich I]

PRODUCT 53
There are installations for 2 "pieces" and more than 4 ... !
That's just what kind of "Lancet" do not take; and the Israeli ,, analogue ,, from the ,, ruler ,, "HERO!

[Nikolaevich I]

PS And yet, in the end, it will not do without GPS! trend, however! Priority will be given to drones with interchangeable warheads and seeker! Perhaps the appearance of "lancets" with FOCL guidance! It is advisable to create reconnaissance, relaying returnable "lancets" without explosives, but with "stuffing" batteries "to the eyeballs"! The appearance of "lancets" as loitering ammunition with the possibility of return (BBVV / BAPR) is not excluded; as well as UAV interceptors ... the appearance of "lancets" not only on "electric traction", but also with microturbojet engines! By the way, not only batteries are offered for "electric" drones, but also ECG-blocks with hydrogen-air fuel cells with an electric capacity 2-3 times greater than battery ...!

[shikin]

And what's wrong with that? The wheel was invented a long time ago, and is still being used. And in general - discoveries of something fundamentally new are extremely rare, everything else, especially various inventions, is a compilation of what is already known.

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote from shikin

And what's wrong with that?

Nothing! Speaking about the similarity of "Lancets" with HERO, I meant only external similarity and some constructive "similarities"! I did not touch the stuffing of drones!

[Zaurbek]

Like Harpies ..... KUB Hall .... now we shouldn’t make UAVs? This is just a diagram and method of application.

[Tagan]

Quote: Warrior_II_category

New Lancet UAVs will be almost impossible to shoot down

And how soon will it be?

I advise you to watch an interview with Zakharov. There is also information on production capacities. To expand production, an entire shopping center was converted into a factory, which is already riveting lancets like hot cakes.

[voyaka uh]

Photos (from above and from different angles) of various types of military equipment are loaded into the computer's memory.
The computer must compare these pictures with the digital image from the drone's video camera and attack the target.
This is an interesting algorithm. It is rarely used in practice due to the difficulty of matching the target and photos from memory.

[vadimtt]

Rarely? In every first Chinese surveillance camera with human detection in the frame
In OpenCV, such functionality seems to have appeared since 2004, with the military on the subject of monitoring and classifying satellites from the earth's surface in the mid-90s.

[Zaurbek]

When I look at the options of all kinds of cameras and car recorders, I get scared for the military

[AndrewPlaxin]

You will have to tie a cart to the tank with an inflatable radar

[senima56]

Yesterday, on July 16.07.23, 24, there was a video on this topic on the Russia XNUMX channel. I watched it with great pleasure. I was very happy for our designers, and thought that people like A. Zakharov should be protected as the "apple of the eye"!

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

As far as I understand, all these designers came from the Soviet circles of aircraft modeling.

[Marconi41]

Quote: senima56

I was very happy for our designers, and I thought that people like A. Zakharov should be protected as the "apple of the eye"!

Everything would be fine, but Zakharov increased the cost of these very Lancets to almost four million rubles. (Cost three). But with mass production, the price should, in theory, only fall. Not nice of him.

[Etoya]

You need a couple of thousand pieces a month, and maybe more, in order to go from defense to offensive.

[Yaroslav the Wise]

Have we begun to take an example from Western bouncers? They also like to praise their technique very much. Even without a full test. Everything is known in battle, dear braggarts! And then it will turn out, as with the Bradles and Tigers

[LMN]

Quote: Yaroslav the Wise

Have we begun to take an example from Western bouncers? They also like to praise their technique very much. Even without a full test. Everything is known in battle, dear braggarts! And then it will turn out, as with the Bradles and Tigers

Specifically, Lancet-3 has already been tested on LBS

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Give it to God. How many lives of our soldiers will be saved by this device. I must say that the manufacturer produced it on time, tested it, modernized it and put it into series. Well done.

[Beaver]

Zakharov has already become a legend. We need more such people. Much more than beauty bloggers and stand-up artists

[Rumata]

Chief designer:

Isn't it time to approve the post of "General Designer" for Zakharov and present the first star of the Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation?

[Andy_nsk]

The first star will not work - they have already been distributed by the thousands to who knows. But in general, your idea is understandable and I hope Zakharov will receive support, and not only moral.

[kill the fascist]

The lancets are good and have proven themselves from the best side (I omit the issue of cost). It would be nice to add lethal power to the product. Well, do not stop there and expand the range, if there are niches that UAVs need to fill.

[Lord Zedd]

Has the author been banned from Google? What new version is he talking about? Where is the information? Personally, I heard that the new Lancets will attack with a swarm of drones and launch like a Switchblade (using a knockout charge). Well, for example, with a conditional MTLB, where 6-8 such drones are installed in a package. At the same time, they will be able to give target designations to each other, keeping at a considerable distance. With such a scheme, this swarm can really become an imba. Infa from the YouTube channel Lamp of knowledge, but I can not vouch for the authenticity. In the future, an extra couple of such drones could be equipped with cassettes to fight enemy trenches. It would be very efficient.

Those who wish can enlighten and throw a link to a new UAV, well, which is mentioned in the article

[Krasavchag2]

These are fairy tales like the SU-57 (the first flight was made on January 29, 2010) in fat years without any sanctions and SVO. In the face of a shortage of everything, when will those new Lancets appear - by 2030? The cruel truth. . .

[Amateur]

it will be almost impossible to knock down

There is a "big difference" between "impossible to shoot down" like the author of the article and "Fighting him for enemy UAVs will not be an easy task" like the Chief Designer.
It is in diaper advertising that "author's vision" is allowed

[RED_ICE]

Today, the video was posted again of how the Ukrainians level our opornik at point-blank range from tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. It is not clear why our fighters do not have RPGs. And this is not the first time this has happened.

https://t.me/yurasumy/9899