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Shadowy Belarus-UAE Firm Unveils 1,000-km Cruise Missile, Prompting Questions About Russian Trace
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A little-known defense firm called E-System Solutions unveiled a new long-range strike system built around the low-cost LCCM Mk2 cruise missile at the Dubai Airshow, held in the UAE from November 17–21, according to Defense Express on November 27.
The LCCM Mk2 is marketed as an inexpensive, long-range weapon designed to hit lightly armored and armored vehicles, command posts, radar stations, air-defense launchers, and even aircraft parked on airfields.
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According to the company, the missile can reach targets 500–1,000 kilometers away and carries a 25–50 kg warhead, depending on range.
Analysts told Defense Express the system reflects a broader counterpush to the West—especially to the United States—to develop truly low-cost cruise missiles capable of striking deep targets without relying on expensive, high-end munitions.
Technical details published by EDR Magazine describe a missile measuring 3.15 meters long, with a 2.5-meter wingspan, a cruising speed of up to 600 km/h, and a maximum flight altitude of 11,500 meters. The company declined to specify what type of guidance system the LCCM Mk2 uses.
The platform is designed for flexible launch options, including ground-based catapults, truck-mounted launchers, containerized launchers, and naval platforms. A standard container launcher holds nine missiles. E-System Solutions says development of both the missile and the launcher is complete and testing is expected soon.
E-System Solutions describes itself as a “Belarusian-Emirati company,” but the company’s origins are murky. A Russian pro-government outlet has portrayed it as “recently founded by specialists from Belarus and the UAE” and noted it has “not yet demonstrated significant achievements.”
Earlier this year, a Belarusian firm with the same name displayed a mock-up of a Buk-MB2K air-defense system—suggesting it may be the same entity operating under a hybrid identity.
Online traces are sparse: a LinkedIn page with only five apparent employees (four in the UAE, one in the US) and an official website that was offline at the time of publication for “scheduled maintenance.”
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Defense Express also points to the company’s own admission that the LCCM Mk2 was designed using lessons from the “Ukrainian theater of operations,” raising suspicions that Russian specialists may have been involved in its development. If so, the public debut in Dubai could be an attempt to present the missile as a purely Belarusian-Emirati product and obscure any Russian role.
Earlier, reports emerged that China assisted Belarus in setting up production lines capable of manufacturing roughly half a million artillery shell casings per year, destined for Russia.
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