ZALA KUB-BLA
Loitering munition · also known as KUB-BLA, KUB-UAV, КУБ-БЛА
Delta-wing symbol| Designer / manufacturer | ZALA Aero / Kalashnikov Group |
|---|---|
| Countries | Russia |
| Production | Russian design publicly presented in 2019; exact factory not established |
| Operators | |
| Estimated unit cost | No published estimate found |
| Confidence | medium |
Reported characteristics
| Speed (km/h) | 80–130 (Janes 2021 specification, baseline/naval development context) |
|---|---|
| Payload (kg) | 3 (Janes 2021; payload is not automatically explosive mass) |
Notes
ZALA announced KUB-BLA in February 2019. Janes attended Army 2021, photographed a naval mock-up and interviewed the developer about a modification still being developed. That does not prove a fielded naval system. Janes gives a 1210 × 950 × 165 mm envelope in the naval-development context; no axis-specific measurement for all KUB models is established here, so no precise length, wingspan or scale comparison is supplied. Naval refers to the proposed launch platform, not to an uncrewed surface vessel. Later KUB-2/KUB-10 variants are not assigned these baseline figures. Operational user and reliable unit cost remain unspecified in this entry.
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Sources
- https://zala-aero.com/news/novyj-udarnyj-bespilotnyj-kompleks-zala-aero-ao-koncern-kalashnikov/
- https://www.janes.com/defence-intelligence-insights/defence-news/army-2021-zala-aero-develops-naval-version-of-kub-uav
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