With its fleet plagued over the months by continuous attacks from the drones Ukrainian marines, Fly try to run for cover. The Russian army is in fact developing a new naval drone – as reported by the Russian-language agency Rtvi which cites a report from Defence -, capable of carrying up to 250 kilos of explosives. The new drones kamikaze they will be equipped with satellite navigation and an inertial navigation system: doubling the navigation systems increases precision and reduces possible problems caused by jamming. There Russia it is also reportedly developing thermal imaging systems for the fleet Black Sea to repel night attacks from naval drones Kiev.
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According to the agency it was the former defense minister, Sergei Shoiguto give the green light to the project which inevitably slowed down after the removal of Shoigu himself by Vladimir Putin. Now the manufacturing companies are apparently waiting for the approval of the project by the new defense manager, Andrey Belousov. The news was supported by the release of a video on Telegram which shows an explosive drone test but the authenticity of the footage is yet to be verified.
The counter-move
In the war that has been fought on Ukrainian soil for over two years now, drones – air, land and water – have played a leading role. To the point it is Kiev That Fly have multiplied investments in the development and design of increasingly effective and lethal unmanned vehicles. Kamikaze drones Magura V5flagship of Ukrainian intelligence, “signed” the sinking of the missile ship Ivanovetsof the landing ship Caesar Kunikovof a corvette Tarantul III and a high-speed patrol boat. This only in the last few months: but if we broaden the analysis to the beginning of the Russian invasion, Moscow also lost the cruiser to the attacks of the Ukrainian drones Moscowa submarine Kilo and an unspecified number of boats and landing ships which translates into a loss of approximately 25 thousand tons of displacement at the hands of a country that in fact does not have a Marina real. But theUkrainein addition to Magura, is also making extensive use of Sea Babyspecially modified and equipped with multiple rocket launchers Grad from the Soviet era, capable of increasing damage with each attack.
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