#loiteringmunition

I felt privileged to have finally seen a Full Scale Mock Up (FSMU) of the Harop Loitering Munition made by the Company “Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)” during the Asian Defense and Security (ADAS) 2024 Event in Pasay.

The Harop was extensively used and with great effectiveness by Azerbaijan against Armenia in their recent Conflicts, particularly during the “2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict”. Their effectiveness in Combat helped usher in the Era of Drone Warfare which we are seeing now in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

It flew toward the Crimea but was downed in the Saki region.

A Russian salvo of Iranian-made kamikaze drones was launched against Ukrainian targets for the first time in almost two weeks on Sunday, the UK Defense Ministry said in a Wednesday morning intelligence update.

The Ukrainian Military had reportedly shot down 11 out of 14 Shahed-136 drones launched on February 26, nine of which were downed in Kyiv airspace.

The drones were likely launched from the Bryansk Oblast in Russia, the UK Defense Ministry assessed, indicating that the Kremlin had established a new launch site to allow better access to Kyiv. Previously, it said that the only observed launch site had been in the Krasnodar region.

According to milinfolive Telegram channel, the wreckage found near Maykop in Adyghea last night belonged to a Ukrainian Tu-141 "Strizh" UAV, which had been modified to function as a kamikaze drone.

PALM 400 is an Israeli canister-launched loitering munition that can destroy armoured vehicles upto 8 Km away & loiter in the air for 2 hours.

Another batch of FPV kamikaze drones. These things have gone from peculiar novelty to must-have hardware in six months flat.