Blind the enemy: ZALA "Lancet" hunts US AN/TPQ radars

Artillery in the NWO provides 80% of fire damage to AFU combat equipment and manpower, so destroying the radars that oppose it has become one of the priority tasks of the ZALA Lancet reconnaissance and strike systems.

In 2015, the Americans began supplying Ukraine with AN/TPQ family of counter-battery radars. Each AN/TPQ is no less dangerous than Ukrainian howitzers. The mobile station can use the trajectories of shells, rockets, or artillery mines to locate an enemy battery and issue real-time targeting instructions that are immediately followed by strikes. Destroying these radars makes it easier for our artillerymen. For example, the AN/TPQ-36, the most numerous in the NWO, can simultaneously follow up to 10 and track up to 99 weapons. The maximum range of detection for artillery is 18 kilometres and for missiles up to 24 kilometres.

Detecting such radars is not easy, as the enemy tries to place them so that they do not fall within the operating zone of the Russian Armed Forces' radio-technical reconnaissance equipment, and also carefully camouflages them on the ground. Nevertheless, the operators of the Z-16 UAS of the ZALA Lancet reconnaissance and strike system have learnt to recognise them in the thermal and visual channels of the radar. Detected targets are promptly struck with Lancet family barrage munitions. According to public data sourcesThanks to the sniper work of ZALA "Lancet" systems, at least 19 American AN/TPQ-36 radars have been destroyed since the beginning of the Strategic Defence Forces. The Lancet also destroyed more than 20 American counter-battery stations of AN/TPQ-37, AN/TPQ-48, AN/TPQ-49 and AN/TPQ-50 modifications.

We present a selection of footage of objective monitoring of the use of Lancets against US AN/TPQ family radars.