{"id":134197,"date":"2022-12-01T07:05:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=134197"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:45:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:45:58","slug":"the-ukrainian-military-used-sea-drones-against-russian-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134197","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian military used sea drones against Russian ships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Russian Navy may enjoy an upper hand over Ukraine while at sea, firing on Ukrainian targets from the Black Sea. However, this advantage has not stopped the Ukrainian military from using field expedient methods to chip away at Russia’s maritime advantage. In late October, they deployed unmanned naval craft to Sevastopol, home base to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.<\/p>\n

The Russians reported that they came under attack with nine air drones and seven sea drones. However, only one ship and a protective boom got hit. Analysts also state that another Russian warship got hit.<\/p>\n

From The Telegraph as quoted in Ukraine Today:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn’t the biggest bang of the war. But a sudden flash that briefly illuminated the Russian port of Novorossiysk on November 18 had a significance that went well beyond its blast radius.<\/p>\n

The explosion is believed to have been caused by a Ukrainian uncrewed surface vehicle — maritime drones that are changing the balance of power in the Black Sea and could profoundly reshape the future of naval warfare.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s radio-controlled bomb boats’ first publicised action was in the early hours of October 29, when more than half a dozen of them attacked Russia’s Black Sea fleet at Sevastopol.<\/p>\n

Footage from on-board cameras released by the Ukrainians showed black metal vessels charging at high speed across a choppy grey sea as machine gun and cannon rounds raised white plumes around them.<\/p>\n

The Russian ministry of defence said nine aerial drones and seven marine drones involved scored only “insignificant damage” against one ship — the minesweeper Ivan Golubets — and the protective boom at Yuzhnaya Bay.<\/p>\n

Independent analysts say the frigate Admiral Makarov also appears to have been badly damaged, although it does not seem to have sunk.<\/p>\n

But it is not sinkings that are the mark of success. It is that they have seriously spooked the Russian navy.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to go down in history,” said H. I. Sutton, an independent defence analyst.<\/p>\n

“It is not the first time it has been tried. But it is the first time it has been successful and it has happened at scale. It is very much what we can expect going forward. It would almost be unrealistic in a future conflict to not involve these,” he said.<\/p>\n

The success of the drones lies not in the relatively modest damage they have so far inflicted, so much as the projection of threat.<\/p>\n

The October 29 raid mostly targeted shipping outside the narrow entrance of Sevastopol bay, but at least one or two boats appear to have got inside — penetrating what should have been impregnable counter measures at the entrance to Russia’s most strategically important harbour.<\/p>\n

That alone is a major achievement. Sailing a drone boat into Novorossiysk, which was supposedly out of range of Ukrainian attacks, must be doubly alarming for the Russians.<\/p>\n

“The Russians have completely changed their defensive posture in Sevastopol and Novorossiysk. They’ve increased the boom — the floating barriers across the harbour mouth and changed procedures to close them much more frequently. Every warship, even a powerful warship, that leaves Sevastopol is now escorted by fast craft,” said Mr Sutton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ukraine Today has more information on this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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