DRONELEDGER / Press factsheet
ZALA KUB-BLA
A compact selection from this profile, with sources and limits. Other configurations and additional measurements remain in the full profile.
ZALA’s Russian one-way attack aircraft, publicly introduced at IDEX 2019. The manufacturer establishes the KUB-BLA name and role. Public descriptions of KUB, KUB-M and later products must retain their variant and date rather than inheriting one specification table.[1][2]
Public-source profile. Performance claims are attributed; type links do not verify an incident identification.
The numbers, with their sources
| Flight duration | 30 min[2] |
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Form, sound & identification limits
- The 2019 announcement contains no textual dimensions or quantitative endurance. The old 3 kg “payload” is therefore not re-labelled as explosive mass, and unverified speed figures are not graphed.[1]
- A manufacturer announcement establishes a product claim, not an independently verified incident identity. KUB is kept separate from Lancet; a generic loitering-munition report cannot choose either model.[1]
- ICDS’s historical table labels 80 km/h cruise, 130 km/h maximum and 30 minutes. Its separate 3 kg column is headed maximum takeoff mass; that is not silently equated with the old payload claim.[2]
Shape or sound alone cannot identify a drone. Follow local public-safety alerts; do not approach wreckage.
Source notebook
- ZALA Aero · KUB-BLA announcement at IDEX 2019
2019-02-17 · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Manufacturer claim
- ICDS · The Rise of Russia’s Military Robots, appendix B, PDF pp. 36 and 40
2021-02-01 · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Approximate / analyst compilation
Cite this profile
DroneLedger. ZALA KUB-BLA. 2026-11-01. https://droneincidents.com/drones/zala-kub/editions/2026-11-01/
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