Ukrainian gunners destroyed a rare Russian Zemledeliye minelayer system.

The Come Back Alive Foundation’s press service announced this.

The aerial reconnaissance unit of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade spotted the Russian engineering vehicle using Leleka-100 UAV, after which artillery fire was adjusted to the target.

Judging by the powerful explosion, the debris of the artillery round hit the launcher’s ammunition with the mines, which caused detonation and abnormal launch.

Унікальне відео?

Бійці 128-ої ОГШБр, якій регулярно допомагає Фонд, знайшли та знищили бойову машину російської інженерної системи дистанційного мінування «Земледелие».

Вогонь артилерії коригувала «Лелека-100».

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According to the Foundation’s representatives, the combat vehicle was destroyed in the south of Ukraine. Zemledeliye was supposed to have mined it to stop the advance of Ukrainian troops.

ISDM Zemledeliye

ISDM Zemledeliye is a modern Russian engineering vehicle for remote mine-laying, designed to rapidly create minefields in especially dangerous directions. The developer of the system is NPO Splav named after A. N. Ganichev.

The system was first demonstrated on June 24, 2020, at the Victory Parade in Moscow.

The vehicle is designed to rapidly create minefields in especially dangerous directions at a distance between 5 and 15 km. It fires rocket shells, which ensure the installation of mines in a given area. It is possible to lay minefields of any complexity, including with passages for the own troops.

From the exterior, the 122mm tube launchers of the engineering vehicle resemble those launched by the Grad MLRS. The ISDM uses similar 122mm ammunition, but for mining, it uses ammunition with a warhead filled with ready-for-installation mines.

The remote mine-laying system includes a launcher carrier on an eight-wheeled armored KamAZ chassis, a support reloading vehicle, and transport and launch pod containers with engineering ammunition.

The combat vehicle has two launch pod containers with 25 rockets each. It is equipped with a satellite navigation system, a computer, and a weather station, which allows making adjustments and considering the influence of the weather on the rocket flight.

Each mine is equipped with programmable self-liquidators in accordance with the second protocol of the Geneva Convention. This ensures that minefields are automatically deactivated after a certain time without human involvement.