War is an inherently human business. Much of it takes place in the mind. Shatter your enemy’s will to fight and the physical bit becomes a lot easier.
Most soldiers accept the hurly burly of the battlefield. They understand the risks and have reconciled themselves to the possibility of death or injury by bullets, artillery and such like with grim pragmatism. But unseen killers – chemical weapons, booby traps, weapons that don’t play by the Queensberry rules of warfare – these eat away at a soldier’s psychological strength.
Loitering munitions in the air or at sea fit into this category of weapon. They’re deadly, but pretty cheap and basic, so easy to produce in large numbers, and able to attack psychological defences just as much as physical ones.
Ukraine’s innovation of maritime drone technology hasn’t fundamentally changed the nature of warfare at sea, but has shown how the psychological dimension can be employed here too.
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The US Military has taken over Romania on the Black Sea. The US is behind the sea drones. Ukraine is just the beard.
Unique Drones!
It was enough for one drone to hit the Crimean bridge to destroy the port in Adessa.
Putin is the only person on the planet that thinks he's not at war.
Russia is scared huh ……
Bbbbbrrrrhahahahahahah
These are not Ukrainian boats bust say British boats….
The ghost of Kiev is back in town..who is this fool
i hope they set up the drone boats with some form of target locking, cause if they have, for example, thermal cameras on board, they would be able to lock onto the heat signature of the enemy vessel, at which point it would no longer matter if the satellite connection was severed, as the boat would have everything it needs to carry out its mission stored onboard, and can sail to the enemy without human control.
Excellent presentation.
However, try not to get enemies any idias.
For they kill people.
' What will do with the drunken sailors ' …………….sink them with a maritime drone . SLAVA UKRAINI .
Send a few thousand of these to Taiwan.
First, make sure, they never need them.
if Ukraine drones worked so well — well is Russia winning and why is the Russia lancet destroying all the nato tanks/armor and Bradleys' thrown at it..?
"terrify"? Well then that's terrorism.
Sell some to our Philippine Navy. We need that asap.
Actually, explosives next to ships are a great way, if done below the waterline, as the water helps to reflect lost explosive force back into the target.
Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
As soon as the Ukrainians develop shape charges for the drones, the Russians will have a real problem.
They should develop the ability to, once they arrive at the target, submerge and crawl underneath to the keel and the set of a shape charge oriented vertically, breaking the ship's back, much more damage from same explosive. Like magnetic torpedoes in WWII tried to do (and mostly failed at).
Soros and his slaves have started a dirty Slavic genocide.
I believe the dolphins beg to differ.
Russia does not have "The second biggest navy in the world"
One word: hydrofoils!
This is the US drones that we provide for ukraine. They are not ukrainian. Stop lying, tell the truth to the world.
Big thanks 100% one of the Best Narrative !¡!
They don't "terrify" 😂😂 Ukrop bot
They need submerged drones with limited profiles to further stymie detection. Just exhaust and guidance gear above water.
Immagina una nazione che gli vengono dati i progetti dei motoscafi droni da usa e gb, e i media fanno finta che siano un'invenzione ukraina
sea drones explode twice ? once as armor piercing missile creates a hole seconds before the drone makes contact with the hull . much the same as anti tank missile as seen in "slo-mo".
the finishing punchline should have been: "For Russian sailors, the Black sea is going to look a lot deeper and darker from now on" -just pointing it out! I mean it IS the Black sea