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ZALA KUB-BLA

The ZALA KUB-BLA (Cube) is a loitering munition manufactured by ZALA Group in Russia. The UAV carries a warhead weighing up to 3 kg.

The KUB-BLA has a wingspan of 1.2 m and flies at speeds up to 80 mph in 30-minute bursts. The KUB-BLA is guided by GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to identify targets.
The KUB-BLA was unveiled in 2019 and first seen in service with the Russian Armed Forces in 2021.

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It's very similar to submunitions such as the 3-O-10 and the 9N225. It's more than likely that these have been repurposed, or manufactured again with modifications, to form the OFBCh-2.5, which may or may not have additional characters before the OF bit.

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An additional image, showing its carrier a Russian KUB OWA-UAV.


See entry https://fenix-insight.online/munition/submunition/ofbch-2-5

And a twitter link https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1516557417781334017 showing another destroyed.

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Further information available on METIS