Weapon of victory: Ukraine presents a new “Bulava” drone at the Eurosatory 2024 exhibition in Paris

Lina Portman2 weeks ago

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Ukraine unveiled a new “Bulava” kamikaze drone at the Eurosatory 2024 international exhibition in Paris. Defense Express said that the Bulava is an analogue of the Russian “Lancet” unmanned aerial vehicle.

UAC, the Ukrainian-Czech company, presented the drone, also known as the Mace loitering munition, to the panel of the National Association of Defense Industry Enterprises of Ukraine.

According to its specifications, an X-shaped kamikaze drone has a powerful combined thermobaric warhead of 3.6 kg and can hit targets at a distance of up to 60 kilometers.

A drone can stay in the air for more than 50 minutes at a speed of 100 km/h and is equipped with an electric motor. The wingspan is approximately 1.6 meters, while the fuselage length is approximately 1.5 meters. Bulava weighs 11 kg and has a maximum flight altitude of 2000 meters.

A drone can be piloted directly by an operator or via satellite coordinates. It has a communications module with an encrypted channel and a CRPA antenna resistant to electronic warfare interference.

The “Bulava” has great maneuverability thanks to its X-shaped tail and can strike targets in the less protected upper hemisphere.

Targeting is carried out via an optical station with day and night thermal imaging channels. The developers said targeting can be done directly by an operator or by a machine vision-based system.

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