Punisher
Country: 
UkraineManufacturer: UA Dynamics
Ukrainian tactical bomber drone paired with the Spectre reconnaissance asset: UA Dynamics' Punisher has flown hundreds of sorties behind Russian lines since 2022, destroying high-value targets with light bombs.
Ukrainian tactical bomber drone paired with the Spectre reconnaissance asset: UA Dynamics' Punisher has flown hundreds of sorties behind Russian lines since 2022, destroying high-value targets with light bombs.
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- Unverified
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Identity
- Designation
- Punisher
- Alias
- UA Dynamics Punisher / Spectre
- Manufacturer
- UA Dynamics
- Country
- Ukraine
- Year
- 2019
- Category
- ISR (Reconnaissance)
- Class
- Mini (< 2 kg)
- Status
- In service
Performance
- Range
- 45 km
- Endurance
- 3 h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Service ceiling
- 4,000 m
- Propulsion
- Elettrico brushless silenzioso, elica spintore
Physical characteristics
- MTOW
- 9 kg
- Payload
- 3 kg
- Hardpoints
- 3
- Weapons
- Tre piccole bombe (1,5 kg HE/HEAT/thermobaric)
Onboard systems
- Sensors
- EO/IR diurno/notturno (gimbal Spectre per ricognizione)
- Datalink / control
- Datalink digitale criptato, autonomia navigation
- Launch
- Catapulta
- Recovery
- Atterraggio sul ventre / recupero
Combat use
- ▸Donbas war 2019-2022
- ▸Russia-Ukraine war (2022-) — precision strikes on Russian ammunition depots and C2 centres
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History
Developed by UA Dynamics and operational from 2019, the Punisher operates in tandem with the Spectre ISR drone for find-fix-finish missions and has logged thousands of real sorties on the Ukrainian front.
UA Dynamics' Punisher + Spectre pairing is one of the first nationally designed Ukrainian find-fix-finish systems: Spectre identifies and tags the target, Punisher releases light bombs with metric precision, and the whole sortie lasts less than 30 minutes.
UA Dynamics has claimed over 100 high-value Russian targets destroyed by the Punisher by 2023 (ammunition depots, C2 systems, artillery batteries), with a dramatic cost-efficiency ratio compared to conventional weapons.