Serbia debuts Komarac 3 FPV attack drone with anti-tank warhead at Partner 2025
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At Partner 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia showed the single-use, pilot-guided Komarac 3 FPV multirotor was shown. Variants accept anti-armor, EFP and thermobaric warheads, offering a low-cost, EW-resistant strike option.
According to information gathered by Army Recognition, on September 24, 2025, Serbian industry unveiled the Komarac 3 armed single-use multirotor at the Partner 2025 defense exhibition in Belgrade. The system is presented as a manually guided FPV attack drone optimized for short-range strike missions in environments saturated with electronic warfare. Built around a rugged quadcopter airframe and a direct video feed to the operator, Komarac 3 is configured to carry heavy anti-armor and anti-structure warheads for terminal effects against vehicles, firing points, and fortified positions.
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The Komarac 3 is a Serbian single-use FPV drone equipped to carry repurposed Malyutka warheads or a 150 mm explosively formed penetrator, offering short-range precision strikes against vehicles, bunkers, and fortified positions (Army Recognition Group).
Komarac 3 is a compact quadcopter with a carbon frame, four direct drive electric motors, and a central cradle for the munition. BDPBM lists an effective radius of up to 10 km, which is realistic for a platform intended to be flown low and manually. Endurance is quoted at a minimum of 10 minutes with a maximum payload around 3 kg, enough margin for the heavier Malyutka derivatives. The system operates between minus 10 and plus 40 degrees Celsius, a useful band for Balkan winters and hot summer ranges but clearly optimized for short sprints rather than long loiter profiles. The airframe at the stand shows a simple open electronics layout, swappable batteries, and a front camera block with a narrow field lens chosen for speed approaches rather than wide area scanning.
Armament options are the heart of the design: the maker lists compatibility with several Malyutka series warheads, including the baseline 9M14P1, a thermobaric Malyutka 2F and a tandem shaped charge variant, the Malyutka 2T. Those choices matter because the old wire-guided missile family is widely available in regional stocks, but the motors and guidance sections are obsolete. Stripping down to the warhead and fusing it to a drone turns stored inventory into a point attack tool. The second option, the 150 mm BGEFP warhead, is described as an anti-armor shaped charge fragmentation round designed to form an explosively formed penetrator. A proximity laser or LIDAR-based fuse triggers at roughly two meters from the target to form the projectile and to beat cages and grills that normally spoil drone drops. The protective nets do not negate this EFP effect, an important selling line given how quickly front-line units have adapted with overhead screens.
The operator flies the Komarac 3 via an FPV console while a fiber optic tether provides resilient, low-latency signal shielding against common radio jamming. There is no attempt to suggest autonomous target recognition or complex waypoint flying. This is a pilot’s weapon that relies on training, camera discipline, and an understanding of angles. Because the aircraft is single-use, the economics hinge on the payload. If a unit can source Malyutka warheads from stocked cases, the airframe becomes the cheaper component of a one-shot system with the explosive effect of a classic antitank charge or a room-clearing thermobaric blast.
Komarac 3 fills the gap between improvised FPV carriers and higher-end loitering munitions. Ten minutes of flight, if launched from a covered position inside 3 to 5 kilometers, is enough to hit a trench node, a firing point, a command post doorway, or the engine cover of a combat vehicle. The EFP standoff fuse matters in current trench fighting, where cages, wire screens, and ad hoc lattice armor have reduced the lethality of simple top attack drops. A shaped penetrator formed in flight defeats those countermeasures more reliably than a drop grenade. Thermobaric loads offer another route, collapsing bunkers and dugouts without needing precision penetration. The optical tether also mitigates the increasingly crowded electromagnetic environment around brigades that have learned to blanket 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands with noise.
Balkan industry has watched the rapid evolution of small attack drones in Ukraine and learned two lessons fast. First, light quadcopters with warheads are now standard battlefield tools from platoon level up. Second, armies are burning through guided munitions and searching depots for legacy hardware to repurpose. Serbia’s industry, with long experience producing and refurbishing Soviet pattern missiles, is positioned to recycle stockpiled Malyutka components into new tactical effects. For export customers outside NATO and in partners that maintain mixed inventories, a single-use FPV carrier that accepts familiar warheads offers a low-cost path to credible strike capacity. It will not replace larger loitering munitions, and it cannot outrange modern air defenses, but it exploits a niche that commanders increasingly value: fast, local, and precise violence against hard points.
Written by Evan Lerouvillois, Defense Analyst, Army Recognition Group.
Evan studied International Relations, and quickly specialized in defense and security. He is particularly interested in the influence of the defense sector on global geopolitics, and analyzes how technological innovations in defense, arms export contracts, and military strategies influence the international geopolitical scene.
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At Partner 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia showed the single-use, pilot-guided Komarac 3 FPV multirotor was shown. Variants accept anti-armor, EFP and thermobaric warheads, offering a low-cost, EW-resistant strike option.
According to information gathered by Army Recognition, on September 24, 2025, Serbian industry unveiled the Komarac 3 armed single-use multirotor at the Partner 2025 defense exhibition in Belgrade. The system is presented as a manually guided FPV attack drone optimized for short-range strike missions in environments saturated with electronic warfare. Built around a rugged quadcopter airframe and a direct video feed to the operator, Komarac 3 is configured to carry heavy anti-armor and anti-structure warheads for terminal effects against vehicles, firing points, and fortified positions.
The Komarac 3 is a Serbian single-use FPV drone equipped to carry repurposed Malyutka warheads or a 150 mm explosively formed penetrator, offering short-range precision strikes against vehicles, bunkers, and fortified positions (Army Recognition Group).
Komarac 3 is a compact quadcopter with a carbon frame, four direct drive electric motors, and a central cradle for the munition. BDPBM lists an effective radius of up to 10 km, which is realistic for a platform intended to be flown low and manually. Endurance is quoted at a minimum of 10 minutes with a maximum payload around 3 kg, enough margin for the heavier Malyutka derivatives. The system operates between minus 10 and plus 40 degrees Celsius, a useful band for Balkan winters and hot summer ranges but clearly optimized for short sprints rather than long loiter profiles. The airframe at the stand shows a simple open electronics layout, swappable batteries, and a front camera block with a narrow field lens chosen for speed approaches rather than wide area scanning.
Armament options are the heart of the design: the maker lists compatibility with several Malyutka series warheads, including the baseline 9M14P1, a thermobaric Malyutka 2F and a tandem shaped charge variant, the Malyutka 2T. Those choices matter because the old wire-guided missile family is widely available in regional stocks, but the motors and guidance sections are obsolete. Stripping down to the warhead and fusing it to a drone turns stored inventory into a point attack tool. The second option, the 150 mm BGEFP warhead, is described as an anti-armor shaped charge fragmentation round designed to form an explosively formed penetrator. A proximity laser or LIDAR-based fuse triggers at roughly two meters from the target to form the projectile and to beat cages and grills that normally spoil drone drops. The protective nets do not negate this EFP effect, an important selling line given how quickly front-line units have adapted with overhead screens.
The operator flies the Komarac 3 via an FPV console while a fiber optic tether provides resilient, low-latency signal shielding against common radio jamming. There is no attempt to suggest autonomous target recognition or complex waypoint flying. This is a pilot’s weapon that relies on training, camera discipline, and an understanding of angles. Because the aircraft is single-use, the economics hinge on the payload. If a unit can source Malyutka warheads from stocked cases, the airframe becomes the cheaper component of a one-shot system with the explosive effect of a classic antitank charge or a room-clearing thermobaric blast.
Komarac 3 fills the gap between improvised FPV carriers and higher-end loitering munitions. Ten minutes of flight, if launched from a covered position inside 3 to 5 kilometers, is enough to hit a trench node, a firing point, a command post doorway, or the engine cover of a combat vehicle. The EFP standoff fuse matters in current trench fighting, where cages, wire screens, and ad hoc lattice armor have reduced the lethality of simple top attack drops. A shaped penetrator formed in flight defeats those countermeasures more reliably than a drop grenade. Thermobaric loads offer another route, collapsing bunkers and dugouts without needing precision penetration. The optical tether also mitigates the increasingly crowded electromagnetic environment around brigades that have learned to blanket 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands with noise.
Balkan industry has watched the rapid evolution of small attack drones in Ukraine and learned two lessons fast. First, light quadcopters with warheads are now standard battlefield tools from platoon level up. Second, armies are burning through guided munitions and searching depots for legacy hardware to repurpose. Serbia’s industry, with long experience producing and refurbishing Soviet pattern missiles, is positioned to recycle stockpiled Malyutka components into new tactical effects. For export customers outside NATO and in partners that maintain mixed inventories, a single-use FPV carrier that accepts familiar warheads offers a low-cost path to credible strike capacity. It will not replace larger loitering munitions, and it cannot outrange modern air defenses, but it exploits a niche that commanders increasingly value: fast, local, and precise violence against hard points.
Written by Evan Lerouvillois, Defense Analyst, Army Recognition Group.
Evan studied International Relations, and quickly specialized in defense and security. He is particularly interested in the influence of the defense sector on global geopolitics, and analyzes how technological innovations in defense, arms export contracts, and military strategies influence the international geopolitical scene.
