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Shahed-136 / Geran-2 vs Lancet-3

The two most cited loitering munitions of the Ukraine war serve very different roles. The roughly 1-metre Lancet-3 hunts targets near the front at about 40 km with some 3 kg of warhead; the 2.5-metre Shahed-136 strikes fixed targets at an estimated 2,000 km, fifty times farther. All these figures come from open and government sources, not official data sheets.

Size to scale

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Generic top views by type, scaled to wingspan (or diagonal for multirotors); they do not reproduce each model.

Shahed-136 / Geran-2 is 2.5 times larger than Lancet-3 · Range: a 50× difference

Reference range

Shahed-136 / Geran-2 * — 2,000 km

Lancet-3 * — 40 km

Logarithmic scale from 1 km to 100,000 km.

Payload or warhead

Shahed-136 / Geran-2 * — 50 kg

Lancet-3 * — 3 kg

Logarithmic scale from 1 kg to 10,000 kg.

Shahed-136 / Geran-2 *

2.5 m · 2,000 km · 50 kg

Iranian one-way attack drone; range and warhead are open-source and government estimates.

Lancet-3 *

1 m · 40 km · 3 kg

Russian loitering munition (ZALA); open-source figures, not officially verified.

* Open-source estimate. Range may be control-link, flight or ferry range depending on the system; it is not a combat radius.

Figures used and how reliable they are

  • Shahed-136 / Geran-2*: 2.5 m, 2,000 km, 50 kg. Iranian one-way attack drone; range and warhead are open-source and government estimates.
  • Lancet-3*: 1 m, 40 km, 3 kg. Russian loitering munition (ZALA); open-source figures, not officially verified.

* Shahed-136 / Geran-2 and Lancet-3: estimated or disputed figure; it does not come from a verifiable official data sheet and should be read as indicative.

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Sources / References

  • U.S. Air Force official fact sheets for the MQ-1, MQ-9 and RQ-4.
  • Baykar, AeroVironment and Teledyne FLIR public product sheets.
  • RUSI reports on drone use in Ukraine.
  • CSIS and IISS open-source analysis of Shahed, Lancet and Orlan.