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Good BUUUUT....

Is this quite accurate? Microwave emitters are a form of EW. Broader than lasers, more of a zone/volume effect weapon, correct? Depending on the power, modulation and sustainment of the effect you can sweep the skies in a certain arc to fry all UAV, or focus on individual units to scramble and drop them. Would Autonomy not be just as vulnerable to fried electronics as it is "invulnerable" to classic radio attack? Eg From The Crows Nest, podcast ep Feb 14th From The Crows Best, ep. Feb 28 No shielding is perfect or invulnerable. Everything has a finite quality and bell curve of effectiveness., no? As I always say, and my wife hates to hear: There's more than one way to skin a cat. Of course, there's also this:

Moldova has zero time for RUS nonsense https://kyivindependent.com/moldova-signs-defense-deal-with-france-macron-pledges-unwavering-support-against-russian-threat/

Czechs FTW yet again https://kyivindependent.com/czech-company-invest-hundreds-of-millions/

Sounds pretty good, tbh. I, for one, welcome our future Svehdish Overlords - Hej! Hej! Hej!

Greg Bear would beg to differ. The Forge of God Anvil of Stars

Yes, exactly.

Lol

Not the strongest reasoning but...

You laugh now... But...

I was thinking the exact same. Turning speed is.. Ok... Straight run speed... Is ok. Bring on the kamikaze hydrofoils, I say. These things could easily be hit by a ATGM, hell salvo-ing RPG7s would be useful. I was noticing the LMG rounds seemed to ricochet off a lot. I'm sure some penetrated but the sloping form and hull thickness seems quite adequate. What really did the trick here, I suspect, was a combination of the number of maneuvering USVs with the poor training /readiness of the ship and CIWS.

Well said. We're not going to beat fast, light and cheap with slow, heavy and expensive. Examples abound in history - battleships v airplanes being the closest example.

Interesting if true. Would explain why SOF are in Africa. I never bought the Wagner storyline.

Depends how long you have it in the water, how deep, etc. These are torpedo nets so at least 6 feet down, but anti-USV (in current iteration) nets needn't be so deep, just trailing a foot or so below. Speed/fuel cost would be minor and a good trade off for a layer of passive defense. I'm really curious if the UKR Navy is applying any reverse lessons to its Turkish-built Ada class corvettes. One built and a 2nd under construction (possibly 4 total), but f-all use if they are not modified with the lessons from the slow killing of the BSF. I do hope the GUR and VMS are talking...

maritime katyushas FTW.

Absolutely. Ships live and die by their keel state. Its literally their spine so once you stress, bend, fracture or generally **** with their keel then things go very screwy extremely quickly, especially in sea state 5+. A usv with a 1T warhead that can handle SS5+ and hit the target head on, from underneath, as it mounts over a wave, could take out almost any ship. Not necessarily sink it outright (although definitely possible on smaller ships) but combined with the relentless ongoing wave action it could quickly escalate a nominally contained damage into a nightmare of propagating structural failure, from the keel up. Glub glub, bottom of the tub.

Well, not quite.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_net#Second_World_War There's definitely some kind of useful ness there. Hell, trawling a net behind the ship (boomed out about 10m) could easily screw with the stern attacks. Versus these current USVs, the nets dont even need to be below water more than a foot or two - the contact is made by the prow of the boat, so above waterline mostly but with dips into the wake possible it could hit below. However all videos so far on all ships show the holes centered above the waterline, so it must be rare for the prow to dip low enough. Copium nets are a-coming...

In theory workable, but the wake beside a ship would make it fairly difficult. Better to specialize the platforms- assault v support. Better is an organic FPV drone. Best by far is a USV drone carrier with 10+ FPVs running stand-off assaults on the defending crew and search lights. Blind the crew, you sink the ship. Also, I suspect there's a mothership/relay drone in play for these current attacks.

Omnomnomnom the war eats it's children...

@Haiduk, @Kraftand et al Is this really a UKR Navy (VMS) effort? It's mostly GUR, right? Is the VMS working anything on the surface?

It seems the GUR /Navy is honing its platforms and tactics on a ladder of ship size. There's still more Roupucha to sink but perhaps the BSF is protecting them well enough with the SK equivalents. But now the Kotov is a man-made reef and the same basic tactics have worked again (immobilize, then double tap amidships).I In a couple months I think we'll have a Black Week of the BSF, with its core strength decimated over several days. ADD: That chart of the current BSF state shows that at least one ship has been sunk from the majority of classes, but only one class (ropucha) is has had multiple units sunk. This seems like a pattern, with the Ropuchas as the anomaly that proves the rule/thesis - that Budanov etc are building a library of TTP across the entire BSF classes. This doesn't mean they'll go for a large scale strike but that every class will have been studied, attacked and the results applied to the next attack, so that the GUR can be ready to attack any ship class that presents an opportunity. TLDR: It's possible that these attacks are not so much shaping or opportunistic assaults as they are combat studies of the various classes and their crews.

Speak of the sea-devil...