A single-use multi-purpose combat platform capable of staying in the air in the target area for a long time in standby mode and promptly attacking it after receiving the appropriate command from the operator has been submitted for testing and refinement. Its cost will be 17 times lower than the cost of the Lancet barrage munition (Izdeliye-52). The commander of the battalion Vostok Alexander Khodakovsky told about it in his Telegram.
“The first samples have been delivered for testing and finalisation. As far as this product will be competitive in its characteristics with quite effective Lancet – we will understand after some of its adaptation to the conditions of real counteraction,” stated in the message.
According to Alexander Khodakovsky, the developers of the new kamikaze drone are only interested in technical competition. “But, nevertheless, in its base the product cost seventeen times cheaper than the Lancet. I assume that with the existing statistics of defeats with this type of ammunition, turning it from an exclusive to a consumable the front will not prevent,” he added.
Earlier it was reported that the Vostok design bureau has developed the Scalpel kamikaze drone, which will soon be used by the Russian army in the NWO zone. Alexander Khodakovsky reported then in Telegram that a working prototype was presented – an analogue of the Lancet, which should cost dozens of times less and be produced in large numbers. However, on the name of the drone, he said that it does not correspond to reality.
A representative of the design bureau told TASS that some components of the device are foreign-made, but to a high degree it is a Russian product. The representative of the design bureau did not disclose the cost of the product. Taking into account the complete similarity of Scalpel with Izdeliye-52, and knowing that the cost of Lancet is about 35 thousand euros, as well as the specified parameters of the drone Scalpel and the fact that so far it is a prototype, the editorial staff of the website Aviation of Russia suggested that its price may be comparable to the cost of Lancet.
The data cited by Alexander Khodakovsky show that the cost of the new kamikaze drone is about 2000 euros or about 207 thousand rubles. At the same time, these drones are supposed to destroy the NATO “menagerie” at the price of one unit from several hundred thousand to more than a hundred million euros.
