Profile
- Type
- Long-range one-way attack UAV
- Conflict side
- Ukraine
- Origin
- Ukraine
- Service note
- Developed during the full-scale Russia-Ukraine War; publicly disclosed in 2022 and reported in operational use from 2023 onward
Aircraft & UAVs
AN-196 Liutyi
The AN-196 Liutyi is a Ukrainian long-range one-way attack UAV developed after Russia began large-scale Shahed-type drone attacks. Open sources describe it as a runway-launched, twin-boom pusher aircraft built for deep strikes with a 75 kg-class warhead and a published range goal above 1,000 km, making it part of Ukraine's campaign against Russian refinery, logistics, industrial, and military targets far beyond the front line.
Service History
- In service
- Reported operational use by Ukraine from 2023 during the Russia-Ukraine War
- Used by
- Armed Forces of Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine
- Wars
- Russia-Ukraine War
Production History
- Designer
- Ukroboronprom
- Designed
- Publicly disclosed in October 2022
- Built in
- Ukraine
- Unit cost
- Open-source estimates vary; approximately $200,000 to $270,000 reported
- Produced
- Serial production reported from 2023
- Number built
- Not publicly confirmed
- Variants
- Upgraded 75 kg warhead configuration reported in 2024
Specifications
- Role
- Long-range one-way attack UAV for fixed targets
- Range
- More than 1,000 km stated in Ukroboronprom disclosures; longer ranges have been reported for later operations
- Warhead
- 75 kg-class explosive payload reported by Ukroboronprom and later defense reporting
- Dimensions
- About 6.7 m wingspan and 4.4 m length
- Takeoff weight
- Approximately 250-300 kg
- Airframe
- Twin-boom, low-wing pusher-propeller design with fixed landing gear
- Guidance
- Reported inertial navigation with satellite correction for autonomous deep-strike missions
Conflict Usage
- Russia-Ukraine War
- Side: Ukraine
Operated by Ukrainian forces as a domestically developed long-range one-way attack UAV for strikes against Russian oil, industrial, and military infrastructure deep behind the front line.
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Ukrainska Pravda report on Ukroboronprom 1,000 km UAV disclosurePublisher: Ukrainska Pravda | Note: Reports Ukroboronprom's October 2022 disclosure of a Ukrainian attack UAV with a 1,000 km range goal and 75 kg warhead. | Accessed: 2026-06-20Ukraine successfully uses attack drone with range of 1000 kmPublisher: Ukrinform | Note: Supports Russia-Ukraine War direct-use context by reporting Ukroboronprom's statement that Ukraine successfully used its 1,000 km attack drone. | Accessed: 2026-06-20Ukrainian AN-196 Liutyi Drone Receives Major UpgradePublisher: UNITED24 Media | Note: Supports Russia-Ukraine War direct-use context by identifying a reported AN-196 Liutyi strike on the Saratov Oil Refinery with a 75 kg payload. | Accessed: 2026-06-20Lyutyi Drones Smash Russian Orsk Refinery 1,500 km From UkrainePublisher: Kyiv Post | Note: Directly supports Russia-Ukraine War use of Liutyi drones in a Ukrainian long-range strike against Russian refinery infrastructure. | Accessed: 2026-06-20Ukraine boosts production of deep-strike kamikaze dronesPublisher: The Defence Blog | Note: Supports Russia-Ukraine War direct-use context by describing AN-196 Liutyi strikes launched from Ukraine against Russian infrastructure and military targets. | Accessed: 2026-06-20Antonov An-196 Liutyi in KouvolaPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Public-domain image provenance for a Police of Finland photograph of AN-196 Liutyi wreckage. | Accessed: 2026-06-20