Analysis of photos of the vessel reveals that it is propelled by a recreational water jet. The waterjet has been specifically identified as closely matching a Sea-Doo design, down to the “No Step” sticker on the housing. The lines of the thrust reverser show that it is a relatively recent model, possibly a GTX or Fish Pro model, based on the images.
Z says, "Thanks for the allowance. But I've blown through the 113 billion and need more so I can buy another mansion in the States. Send it immediately. 'Kay thanx."
Not part of NATO but you know NATO is whispering in their ear from the shadows. Tactical strategy, ammo, explosives, missiles, tanks ... all included in the whispers.🤣
@@babadook-qr6pv Yeah, we all know smart people never need funding, right? That's why Einstein used his brilliance to make money appear out of thin air instead of having to be funded by... ...I mean, do you hear yourself?
Incredible, beautiful!! Necessity is mother of all inventions!! Ukrainians are fighting not just for their freedom, country, homes but for bare lives so they have to be very motivated and therefore inventive!!
@@muhammaDEsmustafa Hahahaha please give me more russian propaganda 🤣🤣🤣 Of course that all free, civilised countries are giving help to Ukraine so they can defend themselves from foreign invaders!! So simple to understand if you have at least few working brain cells!
General Flynn (US Army) about Ukraine: "This is a human trafficking center. This is a center specializing in child trafficking. This is a drug trafficking center. This is the center of the arms trade. We know about biolabs... and there's just a huge influx of money... This is, after all, money laundering." I am a Ukrainian girl, the West has been waging war against my country for the tenth year, the West organized a coup d'etat in 2014 and brought Satanists and neo-Nazis of the Bandera junta to power in our country. The war has been going on for the tenth year, this is a war of pro-Western neo-Nazi criminals against the Ukrainian people. We, Ukrainians, have hope only for the victory of the Russian army, which will free us from criminals. We Ukrainians will win despite the fact that the damned West supplies weapons and mercenaries to Zelensky's criminal power. Freedom to Ukraine! Death to the Fascist occupiers! Glory to the Russian soldier liberator! .
There are submersible drones too with sonar reflectors or dampeners that can navigate autonomously during targeting phase onto "locked on" targets. They are more cost efficient especially while engaging submarines and surface ships. They have ISR roles/ capabilities and can also swarm into " formational" attack roles as reactive/ responsive mines.
@joewilde6668 😂😂lmao. What's the point of your comment. If you support a cause you need to join it? Nope, your just pointlessly commenting because your need to get your stupid opinion out 🤡
@@babadook-qr6pv Nobody is starting ww3 except Putin. Because nobody else will make that first move except him. And Putin has never needed a reason, he does what he wants. And he continues to send missiles to Ukraine ever day no matter what they do. Might as well let them use all legal methods of defending, no more restrictions. If Putin decides to start ww3 over things that don't matter that much, he will take an L.
They probably have been inspired by the “barchini”, the italian royal navy small boats, used by the incursori (special operations personnel of the navy) in the Adriatic Sea against the Austrian-Hungarian Navy, during first world war. Similar tactic: they were launched by main ships or departed from Italian coast. At about 250 mts from their target, the sailor blocked rudder and throttle of the barchino and jumped outboard, in the sea. The boats were full of explosive. They were invented by Italian admiral and hero of war, Nazario Sauro. May the victory be with Ukraina: may the spirit of Italian brave sailors be with Ukrainian people!
It'd be dope if it had a "dive" mode where as it's approaching the target, it floods it's ballast tanks and becomes a semi-submersible. Will help hide from targeting MG's and water will protect them. Just have a telescoping antenna
In war, making things to fancy makes things to expensive and raises per unit cost. Maybe make that a future added feature, focus on making what you have more efficient, maybe have one group tinker around with the idea, but have everyone else keep going on what they need to.
Love love LOVE Alex Marquardt's onsite reporting. He speaks fluent Russian & Ukrainian and is a legit news reporter with incredible insight. Fantastic job, Alex, thank you so much. Slava Ukraine, Heroyam Slava.
Alex is award winning and accomplished and an asset, having been based in Moscow with ABC news. He grew up in Europe and the Middle East. Speaking Russian and Ukrainian is a huge asset.💙💛
Guys, can you please do a piece on just how difficult an offensive is and sometimes it takes months before an actual breakthru happens. If we look at D-Day as an example the allies landed on the 6th June 1944 and yet it was only late Aug - early Sept that Gen Patton achieved a breakthru in Operation Cobra and that's was only after the British & Canadians suffered extremely losses in Caen - bleeding the Germans white - and forcing them to use up their reserves - so when Patton attacked he didn't face nearly the same opposition as he would've months early. This is exactly what UKR is doing and doing very well.
These drones are fantastic. I guarantee the West has sat up and took notice of the evolution of drone warfare. Low profile, Hard to pick up on radar, fast, zippy, nippy and lethal. Slava Ukraine.
@@Shazza2024 Have to spot them first to use a drone. So if they are used at night ,...damn hard to see. Not sure about lasers. a concentrated light beam is pretty good at non reflective surfaces , but the sea can be a big mirror,..making lasers pretty unreliable. We are still a few centuries away from "fire all phasers, fire photon torpedos"
The west is the only reason Ukraine is holding Russia back. The west is teaching Ukraine and telling them where to hit, how to hit, and when to hit. Make no mistake about it. The US alone could drive Russia out of Ukraine without any boots on the ground with just a threat of involvement. The US owns the night, they own the air, they own the firepower. Russia is the kid who thinks they are the best at sports and the US is the professional players. Just like in WWI and WWII, the US is waiting until the enemy is weakened from fighting for many years before they come in hard and fresh.
@@Shazza2024 Then when do they stop most of them? (when targeted at ships). They are not that effective. I much prefer under water drones. They could be great as decoys tho.
Ukraine rocks! Slava Ukraini! Step it up NATO! Let's see some aircover for the counteroffensive! Get them some more of these drones to take out the fleet and free up food exports!
Looks like a Starlink dish on the rear used to connect to the controller. The Russians could easily block their frequency with ECM and also use old fashion torpedo nets for defence.
Naval commanders can't sleep at night. 100s of airbore, sea, undersea attacks cannot be defended with today's tech. A million dollars for drones to take down a billion dollar asset is a trade anybody makes.
@@danielgriff2659 You mean the kind of hypersonic missile the Patriot shot down? And didn't you listen? These are produced in Ukraine, not provided by anyone.
Keep Calm and Drone On! I hope you like that as I literally just came up with it on the spot inspired by your video of sea drones. Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! Peace & Love from LA, CA, USA!
This is the culmination of over 100 years of development of the torpedo boat (originally small high-speed manned boats equipped with one or more torpedoes that could charge cruisers and battleships, fire their torpedoes, and then attempt to turn away before getting caught in the blast). Their adoption (and demonstrated use by the Japanese at Port Arthur and British against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War in the Raid on Kronstadt) radically altered naval warfare by forcing navies to expend large quantities of resources building Torpedo Boat Destroyers (which is where Destroyers today get their name), to escort and screen larger ships from them. Really hard to justify that massive 30,000 ton battleship or carrier if a two-ton motorboat (with half or more of its weight in explosives/torpedoes carried) can sink it by ramming it and blowing up or firing torpedoes into it.
These sea drones would make the Reggia Marin's X flottiglia MAS and their heroic actions,proud.Great achievement by Ukranian engineers and the Ukranian Navy.It's a low cost intelligent approach to an asymmetric warfare.The fleet in being,just having them trapped in their ports.Slava Ukraïni.
Hi Allison. We really must stop meeting like this... ...And instead meet for a beer at the coming victory celebrations in Ukraine. 🍻😊 🔱🌻 Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛 Stay safe!
@@babadook-qr6pv What can the Ruskies win? A country full of citizens who will never stop fighting! it takes five times the number of soldiers available to hold a country. Russia doesn't have that many drunks and convicts.
If we are seeing this model, it is already superseded. Next step is a submerged craft, similar to the drug running submersibles. At night, in bad weather and taking advantage of tides they can get really close... just before sprinting to targets. The anti-torpedo nets will make a comback on ports, but this is a cheap and effective area denial system.
@@Aaronsmith-cu8ii The point here is obviously how to get enough fuel to fit in such small vessel for such long trip, not green power .....Obviously you have no idea about the topic.
YES! And then everyone can act shocked when the expected barrage of missiles destroys what is left of the infrastructures of Ukraine's cities. Keep poking the bear, maybe one of these times you do, the bear will just run away.
@@LakeMeadDrone spoken like someone who can't see past their own nose. My guess is I could list a number of things that would help the US, but if they were going to the poor and needy you'd also turn that down because we can't have money going to poor people.
Hi. Engineer here. Why aren't the drones submersible? 🤔 Why are they even visible to be shot down?? 💁🏾♂️ The mini boat idea is very cute, in fact, but I hope that U.S. sea drones are made to look exactly like sharks 🦈 & whales 🐋 to be visibly stealth & undetectable.
the ones they show on camera are old generation. im sure the version youre describing is either in deployment or development and that other countries are building them too
It is unmanned, easy to control, stealthy, and fast. It has all the advantages of a drone vs. a plane, but it navigates in water instead. This is uniquely important in Ukraine due to the Black Sea disputes. Its simplicity is what makes it genius!
@@sarahcatee1 really appreciate!!! Maybe we could have fast flying drones carrying explosive attacking Russian soldiers one day:) I just love the idea of unmanned weaponry:)
@@HungNguyen-lv1lgUnmanned weapons are an incredible advancement: first in the skies, and now in the seas! I know more countries will also want to utilize this Ukrainian invention 💪💪
General Flynn (US Army) about Ukraine: "This is a human trafficking center. This is a center specializing in child trafficking. This is a drug trafficking center. This is the center of the arms trade. We know about biolabs... and there's just a huge influx of money... This is, after all, money laundering." I am a Ukrainian girl, the West has been waging war against my country for the tenth year, the West organized a coup d'etat in 2014 and brought Satanists and neo-Nazis of the Bandera junta to power in our country. The war has been going on for the tenth year, this is a war of pro-Western neo-Nazi criminals against the Ukrainian people. We, Ukrainians, have hope only for the victory of the Russian army, which will free us from criminals. We Ukrainians will win despite the fact that the damned West supplies weapons and mercenaries to Zelensky's criminal power. Freedom to Ukraine! Death to the Fascist occupiers! Glory to the Russian soldier liberator! .
@@rodwallace6237 And in the real world... Uke commanders have been complaining about R's ability to stop their drones with electronic transmissions. The drone stuff is fake news, as always.
He said they can't hit such small drones but yet they have and will continue to. Seems like they would be developing something that skimmed just about a foot underneath the water that doesn't leave a huge wake like a speed boat does. They need to develop a super long range torpedo type drone
@@Aaronsmith-cu8ii no, a torpedo only goes short distances, not 500 mi to its target like a drone can. So the drone needs to be torpedo-like. If you think torpedoes can go that far, it would have already happened in the war and they would be no need for drones lol
An excellent project by the resourceful Ukrainians. Ukraine is absolved of what it must do to avoid ‘deletion’ by Russia. Russians, to live, just need to go home. Ukrainians cannot escape. Slava Ukraine, always.
there already is one. according to the principle of the hail system. There will be videos on RU-vid soon. so far these videos are only in telegram channels
@@hangten1904 NATO isn't scared they just need a reason to join because Ukraine isn't allied with NATO. We have been begging you to give a reason for a year now and Russia is too cowardly to act. Go ahead and swing on a NATO country and we will show you how scared we are
Wonder if it has ballast tanks/pump to change the water line. Looks like a whole bunch to shoot at with wakes marking the spot. Also, did I hear a diesel engine?
The end of the NATO PMCs "Armed Forces of Ukraine" with their drug-addicted clown will come soon. The USA is slowly dying with Britain, the end of the neo-colonialist bandits. 😅✝🕯🕯🕯
You realize its ground troops winning this war for Russia. They invented this "cauldron" strategy where they draw in Ukraine troops, only to have them bunker down and get blasted mercilessly by artillery. Then they leave a road open so that Ukraine can send reinforcements to be pummeled.. its kinda sad.
@@ubaldocarmona1109 Ukraine is good at diplomacy, that includes choosing allies. Therefore any benefit Ukraine is getting from their friends is a tribute to their skills. Nations don't usually have every every resource and every skill there is to have. That's why people need diplomacy. I haven't seen Russia's allies doing as much for Russia. 🤷♂
@@vadimvictor3382 One can argue about Ukraine's choice of allies. So far, Ukraine has received only war from this union to the last Ukrainian. Thanks to the USA and their vassals.
@@andreyt7687 Ukrainians are the ones asking for the weapons. If they decide to defend themselves, their allies will support them. They don't want to be conquered, then deleted.
If it works as the American media fabricated, the Americans will order all their minions to make more then 5,000 of this sea drones, and using them to terrorize people in the black sea and around the world already. The Americans did not make this sea drone into real weapon proves this sea drone was just a propaganda movie props.
Assume Taiwan would take notice of the success of this weapon and develop their own version for use in the Taiwan strait. Just imagine this class of weapon with advanced chips guiding themselves and networked together to hunt in packs. PS - Surprised Russia didn’t consider these craft as a threat to the bridge earlier and develop counter measures against these craft.
No Taiwan is well funded, well equipped and more prepared, which is why the Chinese have yet to make move. The Chinese are watching the war in Ukraine very closely and are hedging their bets. China knows it cannot and must not go to war alone with Taiwan
The application of these weapons is specifically to get a payload to a target while decreasing it's ability to be detected by sonar and radar due to its silhouette being so close to the water.
Using the sea drone at night will have the maximum effect, and it will be more effective if the color of the sea drone is painted black to make it less visible at night.
Ukraine is simply the most inovative army in the world. They are the best motivated and driven by love for freedom and democracy ' the value of human life. The bravest and most courages warriors. Ukraine is simply LEGENDARY from top to bottom ' to the youngest and the oldest citizens as well. They are WORTHY to be NATO !!! SLAVA UKRAINI ❤❤❤ HEROYAM SLAVA 🎉🎉🎉
They are not the most innovative army in the world. That title goes to America. What the Ukrainian's are doing is good. They are holding off the Russian's, but their use of drones in the air and on water is not original and the best drones in the world come from America. You don't hear about American drones as much because they are not needed as much. American's don't need drones to attack from the air, they will just punish you with their superior air power and superior navy.
General Flynn (US Army) about Ukraine: "This is a human trafficking center. This is a center specializing in child trafficking. This is a drug trafficking center. This is the center of the arms trade. We know about biolabs... and there's just a huge influx of money... This is, after all, money laundering." I am a Ukrainian girl, the West has been waging war against my country for the tenth year, the West organized a coup d'etat in 2014 and brought Satanists and neo-Nazis of the Bandera junta to power in our country. The war has been going on for the tenth year, this is a war of pro-Western neo-Nazi criminals against the Ukrainian people. We, Ukrainians, have hope only for the victory of the Russian army, which will free us from criminals. We Ukrainians will win despite the fact that the damned West supplies weapons and mercenaries to Zelensky's criminal power. Freedom to Ukraine! Death to the Fascist occupiers! Glory to the Russian soldier liberator! .
With help of Western military technologies donated to them. But they patriotic Ukraine military seems to be more “tech savvy “ than the Russians ( I think Russia is suffering from a brain-drain).
@@terryhurtado8852no one suports death. We support Ukranian independence and the upholding of international law. We support not letting Russia bully other nations.
@@tmi1234567Do you think anything is ever one sided in life with something as nuanced as political wars? Wars will happen wether the news gets you to think the other side is a BULLY (lol). But inocent people dont have to blindly die for billionair comedians or any gobernment in generaly if they wake up and ignore the CHEARLEADING.
The overwhelming amоunt of approving and cheering соmments by ordinary Russians in response to videos about the atrocities committed against civilians and prisoners of war in Ukraine were equally as shocking to Ukrainians as the war itself. We somehow became accustomed to the war, but the realization of who we have been living alongside all this time without even knowing it is still horrifying. Those sаvаgеs referred to themselves as our brоthеrs. Just imagine what they would do to you, who they саІІ their enemies, if given the chance. Engaging in negotiations with Russia is lіkе negotiating with ЕbоІа vіrus. That's why any peace agreement lacking a clear victory for Ukraine is nothing but a temporary сеаsеfire.
This is old tech, US have thousands of Submarine drones like this... The USS Gerard Ford has 30 escort of Sub drone continuesly guarding the main pack sailing in the West Philippine Sea last week.
Ukraine needs to look into submersible drones, because these surface drones will increasingly be countered by old school machinegun mounts on the Russ ships. They may not be able to fight them with anti-ship missiles and they may be somewhat hard to make out on surface radar, but the good old Mark 1 Eyeball and a MG will limit the success in attacking (military) vessels. Now, if your drone moves under the surface with only a sensor mast, otherwise known as a periscope, breaking through, Mark 1 Eyeball will have difficulty to spot them. Bonus: If you manage to detonate 300Kg of explosives directly under a ships keel or rudder, you will do a heck of a lot more damage than ramming it into the side. Basically a modern, remote controlled torpedo. I wouldnt be surprised if they are already working on that type of design.
These drones need to be modular in purpose - they should additionally have a torpedo that can be ejected , plus a flying drone (5x drones ) that takes off from the hatch of the surface drone then they do a flyover with a surgical strike from different surprise angles
Satellite communication does not work underwater, especially very salty. Other types of communication require an aircraft radio repeater and are subject to detection and jamming. The development and production of this is ten times more expensive. It is better to develop surface zombie drones for ambushes and mass attacks.
@@johnhmielewski1230 Think "autonomous". Think huge magnetic target even with degaussing coils. Think of submarine drones "seeded" much like mines but drone can seed itself. If we're discussing this topic here then Ukrainians are very likely building the "Mk X" versions already. And doubtless other nations are involved as Black Sea an excellent test bed what with plenty of targets so kindly supplied by Russian Navy ... thanks Putin 😂😂😂😂
They tried. They even let NATO transit equipment thru Russia for use in Afghanistan. In return they got chaos on their borders and a puppet government in 'Ukraine' after the western financed 2014 coup.
@@user-cv8xw8zn5u You've got to be the least effective Kremlin troll on the planet. If you don't get better at your job Putin will send you to the front!
Ukraine is adapting their strategies, innovating on weapons (in particular inexpensive systems like water and air drones) which give the Russians lots of problems. We should support these developments as much as we can and ramp up supplies of more conventional weapons as much as we can.
The next obvious iteration of this technology is to make them autonomous. Give the drone a geographic area of operation, some A.l. and send them out to do their deadly work.
You probably don't want to do that until you're 110% certain it's not accidentally going to blow up one of your ships, blow up an unlucky dolphin or whale, or blow up something neutral and start a war against you.
@@paulgibbon5991 The rate at which A.I. is reported to be advancing I think such weapons, when and if they are used will be responsible for fewer friendly fire incidents than humans.
