Lancet has a teeny tiny warhead, whereas this thing can demolish anything that isn't an underground bunker or multistory building. Launched from near the frontline, it'll be over target in minutes. Seems like wasted potential. Imagine a handful of these showering a forward trench with shrapnel.
I have no love for Russia, and the Russian military is absolute trash, but this is just incorrect. Those drones are quite accurate, and we very much know that (they do run on American tech after all).
I don't understand the question. Russia IS using Sahed drones as missiles.
I mean why not use them to hit frontline positions instead of urban targets the way we see the Ukrainians using their HIMARS.
Because Lancets aren't really as mobile as you seem to think, they are big fat pieces of shit.
They also can only hit static targets and most teams on the front probably have manpads and can hear them coming from kilometres away.
>Shahed's warhead is not very large either
fake and gay
The 131 has 15 KG of HE and the 136 has 17 KG of HE. Although smaller than the GMLRS which has 23 KG of HE it is much larger than a lancet with its 12 KG MTOW.
>and it's not precise enough to hit a trench. It can only be fired in the general direction of a city.
incorrect and homosexual.
Shaded has a quad GNSS transceiver setup with AD9361 chips which are pretty new tech. The anon who made the initial writeup about the Shaded guessed about a 3 meter CEP. I would say its closer to 5 meters in my experience with GNSS but maybe he is right.
They're too slow to hit. With loitering munitions you need to launch them and have them circle in the target area with AI or a human operator to choose targets. GPS/INS on a mower engine won't do it.
Russia doesn't have any targets; they don't know where enemy HQs are, and they can't pinpoint enemy artillery fast enough for the information to be actionable. They can either shoot at close tactical targets (and shahed/lancet videos usually show them attacking vehicles which have already sat abandoned for several hours) or distant static structures.
This BUT
Lancets are used to hit spotted armor/artillery by other drones. Without them, they just patrol around until they find something to hit before battery goes dead. But yeah they are basically blind because as you said, they don't know or can't pinpoint actual important mobile targets/HQs
Because it's slow >so make it faster
Now it's too heavy >so make it lighter
Now it's too expensive >so make it cheaper
Now it's impossible for the russian tech tree
Too slow, too big, lancet is smaller
Lancet has a teeny tiny warhead, whereas this thing can demolish anything that isn't an underground bunker or multistory building. Launched from near the frontline, it'll be over target in minutes. Seems like wasted potential. Imagine a handful of these showering a forward trench with shrapnel.
Shahed's warhead is not very large either, and it's not precise enough to hit a trench. It can only be fired in the general direction of a city.
I have no love for Russia, and the Russian military is absolute trash, but this is just incorrect. Those drones are quite accurate, and we very much know that (they do run on American tech after all).
I mean why not use them to hit frontline positions instead of urban targets the way we see the Ukrainians using their HIMARS.
Because Lancets aren't really as mobile as you seem to think, they are big fat pieces of shit.
They also can only hit static targets and most teams on the front probably have manpads and can hear them coming from kilometres away.
>that footage of Ukies shooting down Shaheds with their AKs
One of the most memorable thing from the war.
>Shahed's warhead is not very large either
fake and gay
The 131 has 15 KG of HE and the 136 has 17 KG of HE. Although smaller than the GMLRS which has 23 KG of HE it is much larger than a lancet with its 12 KG MTOW.
>and it's not precise enough to hit a trench. It can only be fired in the general direction of a city.
incorrect and homosexual.
Shaded has a quad GNSS transceiver setup with AD9361 chips which are pretty new tech. The anon who made the initial writeup about the Shaded guessed about a 3 meter CEP. I would say its closer to 5 meters in my experience with GNSS but maybe he is right.
because they're shit
Because they don't have enough of them to hit both civilians *and* legitimate military targets.
>Russia have away Su-35 for these pieces of dogshit
>Why don't they use a lawnmover as a rocket?
Anon!
They're too slow to hit. With loitering munitions you need to launch them and have them circle in the target area with AI or a human operator to choose targets. GPS/INS on a mower engine won't do it.
Russia doesn't have any targets; they don't know where enemy HQs are, and they can't pinpoint enemy artillery fast enough for the information to be actionable. They can either shoot at close tactical targets (and shahed/lancet videos usually show them attacking vehicles which have already sat abandoned for several hours) or distant static structures.
This BUT
Lancets are used to hit spotted armor/artillery by other drones. Without them, they just patrol around until they find something to hit before battery goes dead. But yeah they are basically blind because as you said, they don't know or can't pinpoint actual important mobile targets/HQs
What are you smoking my guy? Tons of videos of lancets catching Ukrainan armor and artillery with their pants down.
On roads where they expect movement.
>tons of videos
It's like 12 in over 500 days of war.
https://lostarmour.info/tags/lancet
114 this month, 135 last month
how many are misses, decoys or deal no significant damage? We've seen that most armored vehicles shrug them off unless hit in a weak spot.
Technically, they did destroy Ukrainian armor and artillery.
Actually, wait a minute OP... when was the last time there was a big drone/cruise missile attack from Russia?
last week iirc, theyve been focusing the new infrastructure on the Danube
How many munitions were involved? Was it as big as the ones a year/months back?
you can google this yourself, moron
He's asking because the answer is obviously no
Because they have no hafo black magik chud sayelitez to guide them
because they are garbage and they cost over $20,000 a piece also out of 10 purchased shahed, maybe only 6 or 7 works right out of the box.
They are using them as himars. They are just more vulnerable
I don't understand the question. Russia IS using Sahed drones as missiles.
Because it's slow
>so make it faster
Now it's too heavy
>so make it lighter
Now it's too expensive
>so make it cheaper
Now it's impossible for the russian tech tree
Can't be controlled in real time. It's basically, input gps coordinate and let it fly. And it's slow.