The Russian Army began to massively use Lancets with a new guidance system in the North Military District zone

The Russian military in the Northern Military District zone began to massively use the improved Lancet UAVs. The new version of loitering ammunition has the option of automatic target acquisition. The first footage of the successful hunt of a modernized kamikaze drone has been published on the Internet.

The published video shows the defeat of the Czech RM-70 Vampire MLRS by the modernized Lancet. What is noteworthy is not even the fact that the launcher was hit, but the inscription on the drone’s screen “Target captured.”




Experts point out that technology automatic target recognition has been tested before. It was tested in combat conditions both on the Lancet-1 UAV and on the Lancet-3 drones. But now we are talking about the beginning of the mass use of advanced kamikaze drones.

There is one interesting moment in the published video. The Lancet specifically targets the MLRS launcher. Although at the same moment a Ukrainian truck passes along the road. This gives grounds to assert that the UAV operated according to predetermined parameters. That is, he was hunting a large target.

There is another interesting conclusion that experts made based on the analysis of the published video. The RM-70 Vampire MLRS launcher was hit in the near rear of the Ukrainian army. And apparently, there were no air defense systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces here. This means that with the advent of the modernized version of the Lancet, the Ukrainian military will have to move its weapons away from the line of combat contact. Otherwise, they will become easy prey for Russian loitering munitions.