After the first use of maritime drones, the Russians built more barriers at the entrance to the port in Sevastopol, making drone strikes almost impossible. But the SBU found an alternative – placing mines in the sea.
Thanks to the Sea Baby drones that placed more than 15 underwater mines near the waters of the occupied Crimea, the Security Service hit at least four Russian ships. The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing its own sources in the SBU.
Explosives were reportedly planted along routes used only by Russian warships of the Russian invaders.
“After the first use of naval drones, the Russians built more barriers at the entrance to the port in Sevastopol, which made a drone attack almost impossible. So the SBU leadership team that Vasily Malyuk developed an alternative – laying mines at sea -called bottom mines are made of plastic and weigh about 400 pounds and are difficult to detect because they sink into the mud under shallow water,” said of publication.
For a month and a half, a specialized SBU team monitored the routes of naval ships and civilian transport, after which SeaBaby laid two mines. Last year on September 14, a missile corvette Simoom blown up by one of the mines and being repaired.
“Over the next few weeks, SeaBaby went back and forth, covering more than 3,000 miles, laying about 15 minutes apart. On one of the trips, three patrol boats of the class Raptorthe drone opened fire with a grenade launcher, which hit the enemy ship,” Ivan Lukashevich, call sign Hunter, told SBU journalists.
It was even reported that a month later, on October 11, a large patrol boat Pavel Derzhavin when it entered Sevastopol Bay, it hit its side and went to port for maintenance, and on October 13 it was transferred to another port for repairs, but when leaving Sevastopol Bay it encountered a mine. The large tug sent to rescue her also hit a mine and had to be towed back to port.
A few days later, an explosion also damaged a modern steel ship Vladimir Kozitsky – one of two in service in Russia.
According to The Wall Street Journal, remote mining carried out by SBU Sea Baby drones is the first example of successful remote mining in the world.
“Back then, maritime drones were mainly used for surveillance or logistics that we were doing a lot that no one else in the world had done,” said the publication’s interlocutor.
Source: korrespondent
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