Direct proof of use
MAM-L is directly tied to Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 strike use in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War through reporting on the May 2022 Snake Island campaign. Naval News reported that a Ukrainian TB2 struck two Russian Project 03160 Raptor-class assault boats near Snake Island on May 2, 2022, and assessed that the boats were likely destroyed with Roketsan MAM-L smart micro munitions.
A later Naval News report on the May 7, 2022 strike against a Russian Project 11770 Serna-class landing craft stated that both the Raptor-class boat attack and the Serna landing-craft attack used MAM-L smart munitions manufactured by Roketsan. U.S. Army OE Watch cited the same Snake Island sequence and repeated the identification of MAM-L in those TB2 attacks.
Sources: Naval News Raptor Boat Strike, Naval News Serna Landing Craft Strike, U.S. Army OE Watch TB2 Ukraine
Timeline
The public MAM-L record in Ukraine is clearest during the Black Sea fighting around Snake Island in early May 2022. On May 2, Ukraine released footage and statements saying Bayraktar TB2 drones destroyed two Russian Raptor-class boats near the island; Naval News connected that attack to likely MAM-L use.
On May 7, Ukrainian authorities released footage of a TB2 strike on a Russian Serna-class landing craft at Snake Island. Naval News reported that the landing craft was hit while berthed and that a Tor air-defense system was visible aboard; the same article identified MAM-L as the munition used in the Raptor and Serna attacks. U.S. Army OE Watch summarized the broader raid as a TB2 defense-suppression and interdiction effort against Russian air defenses, patrol boats, and a landing craft.
Sources: Naval News Raptor Boat Strike, Naval News Serna Landing Craft Strike, U.S. Army OE Watch TB2 Ukraine
Narrative
Ukraine employed MAM-L as the heavier member of the MAM-series glide-bomb load carried by Bayraktar TB2 armed UAVs. Roketsan describes the baseline MAM-L as a 22 kg, laser-seeker smart micro munition for UAVs and light attack aircraft, with alternative warheads and a 15 km listed range. That role fits the Snake Island record, where Ukrainian TB2s were used against small naval targets, landing craft, and air-defense equipment rather than as a general air-to-ground bomb carrier.
The Snake Island attacks show the distinction between platform use and munition use. Ukrainian and media reporting documents Bayraktar TB2 strikes in several parts of the Russia-Ukraine War, but the sources used here only assign MAM-L with confidence to the Snake Island boat and landing-craft attacks. Earlier Ukrainian TB2 combat use in Donbas involved a guided bomb, but public reporting available for that event does not identify MAM-L clearly enough to treat it as a direct MAM-L incident.
The munition's battlefield role in this conflict was therefore narrow but visible: UAV-delivered precision interdiction against Russian naval and air-defense assets around Snake Island. Naval News later described Ukrainian Navy TB2s in the area as armed with MAM-C and MAM-L laser-guided glide bombs and credited the drone campaign with disrupting Russian reinforcement of the island after local air defenses were degraded.
Sources: Roketsan MAM-L Smart Micro Munition, Naval News Raptor Boat Strike, Naval News Serna Landing Craft Strike, Naval News Ghost of Snake Island
