Novorossiysk Targeted by Marine Drones and UAVs. Possible Strike on Unknown Target 

If I was a civilian & heard that many rounds being fired, I'd be looking to relocate ASAP.

3:20 Russian media has already confirmed that it was just Ivan having a smoke after night shift.

That defensive fire probably accounted for some damage, as well

It's telling that for weapons targeting they have to launch visible light flares as opposed to having good NODs or thermals

Can you imagine living in a city where the military are not only ripping off serious munitions willy nilly (they have to land somewhere...) but also that they *have* to do that to defend the city. Time to vote in a new government. Oh, wait...

Blazing away at anything that moves, not a good night to be out on the harbour

The drones proably did less harm to the port than all the random firing.

It's another boring night in Novorossiysk, but there is vodka. One of the gunners says "Let's have a tracer-skipping competition! The winner is the one who gets a tracer round to the far side of the harbour with the most bounces".

In the trade Novorossiysk is now known as a Target Rich Environment

Nice to know when Marine Drones enter further into the harbour, AA guns on the opposite shore are aimed horizontally at the cameraman.

I hope Ukrainian navy wanna go exploring the aurora borealis and visit Murmansk as well.. I'm sure Norway, Sweden and Finland would help with Special Tourism Visas for the Special Tourism Operation..

Game of Drones...who needs dragons?

I am confident the Russian Navy will maintain its dominance of the Caspian Sea.

Thank you for this report. 💙🇺🇦💙🇺🇦💙

Russians are living in very interesting times, getting a big show and maybe directly involved.

The bright glows high up and slowly descending vertically are most likely flares.

Those aren’t SAM launches, those are flares. They’re lighting up the water to target naval drones. You can occasionally see tracer rounds being fired out into the water and even ricocheting up.

I visited Novorossiysk about 1982 as 2nd officer on a ship. We were loading bulk cement for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Our visit lasted several days, and we we able to get shore passes. The city centre at the time had obviously been once a lovely city, but was very run down with pot-holed roads and cracked pavements, shabby buildings, near empty shops. Just a few blocks outside the city centre the urban streets were basically dirt roads. But we did have a wonderful evening with some of the local ladies.

Would not like to be out fishing.

I think it might be a star shell that hadn’t burned out before landing on something.

Always worth checking out your latest finding, Sucho!. Thanks for all the work you put into adding some context.

I wonder if you could convert those marine drones into naval mines? A semi-submersible drone could be stealthily positioned, then scuttled to await the passage of an Orc boat.👍🏼

Note that starshells are being used to illuminate the area to help visually acquire drones, both airborne and seaborne.

Did the Ruskies know what they were shooting at, or, was there a prize for he who could use the most ammunition ?

Excellent reporting as always. Thanks Suchomimus.

Thanks for your excellent coverage..

@suchomimus during the long video segment showing firing over the water - those aren't SAM launches. Those are launches of illumination shells (parachute flares) to light up the harbor for the gunners. That said, thank you for such excellent work, and for keeping it up over the long-haul!

Thank you, Suchomimus, for this enlightening Novorossiysk report. 🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

Keep the pressure on!!!!!!

Stood there filming while tracer rounds can be seen going across the water. Seem confident nobody will fire from the opposite bank as well it seems.

Honeatly looks like they were firing flares to make it easier to hit targets and one didnt burn out when it landed

this is a illuminating flare

Dangerous place to film if the marine drones sails to this part :P

Love to see it. Thx for keeping us all posted and updated 🙏💙💛

I’d be keeping my head down if on the other side of the harbour

Probably riddled a few local fishing boats out night fishing. 😂

Thank you so much Suchomimus

That bright light looks like its just a flare that hit the ground and just kept burning. Don't think anything was hit.

meanwhile , the locals are saying ....it's not fireworks night ?

That bright thing ‘that could be a hit’ is a parachute flare on the ground.

I’m surprised that a technologically advanced military (Russian), need to use illumination rounds instead of radar/IR seekers.

Happy New Year, Oh wait, it's too early.

Great video. 👍.

Pity any poor night fishermen !

the fact that they were shooting star clusters makes me think they dont have any thermals or nvgs

Thanks Buddy gor the update❤❤

Looks like a lot of "debris."

Concise and informative. Thanks!

Those are illumination flares being fired into the air - they streak up until they reach a set hight then burst into light and remain lit as they drift down on parachutes, there didnt appear to be any interceptions by SAMs in this clip that I could see. What were they attempting to light up? Marine drones I suspect. The heavy calibre red tracer fire was directed out over the water.

Looks like a parachute flare that has lost its parachute.

Yesss

Just an illuminating flare that’s dropped back to earth and just burning out.

💙💛Slava Ukraine💙💛

Most of those things in the sky are parachute flares. You can tell by the trail of smoke above as they drop to the ground. As someone else said maybe a still-burning flare caused a fire when it landed.🎆

Thank you!

1:11 Wouldn't cha just love to live near orc urban defense positions 👀😼

Fantastic thanks again

Judging by the amount of tracer bouncing into the air, they seemed to shooting the sh*t out of something on dry land.

все будет по плану It's all going to plan 😂😂😂

Wow, that screenshot at 0:26 really shows how accurate the War Thunder Port Novorossiysk map is.

They're using artillery illumination rounds, "flares", apparently to illuminate the water and perhaps for ADA as well. That fire burning in the video is directly below another illum round of around the same intensity. So, dunno, could be a fire started by a previous illum round. Look around 1:35 .

Thank you 💪💪🇺🇦💪💪💙💛💙💛

Nice views from that beach club, just like in Ibiza

Excellent information. Thank you for this information.

Happy New Year Putin....!

It looks more like an illumination flare. It has the same color snd intensity as the one in the center of the screen it's still floating in the air

It's a flare. You can see the trail.

Thanks Sucho 🇺🇸🇺🇦💪🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🕶️

The two bright objects in the sky at 2:30 ish are definitely flares, used to provide light in order for the gunners to see the incoming drones. The one on the left probably came down in the town and is either still burning or started a fire.

Kinda looks like the illumination flare landed there from smoke trail, but who knows. Thanks for making and sharing your videos with us!

I see some aerial flares being used to light up the area.

That harbor video is interesting. There are several tracer rounds that can be seen skipping off the surface of the water. Gotta be careful where you aim when the incidence angle is low.

The lights in the air are flares. I've not seen the US use those in about 35ish years when I was a kid. When I was a soldier, we never used flares because we had night vision for personal use and night vision and/or thermal optics on our vehicles.

Finally, a Russian that films in landscape, and doesn’t use their mums phone from the 90’s….

"Nothing here, only farting fireflies!"

Looks like they're using parachute flares to illuminate the area. Must be looking for marine drone.

Fire on the ground could be due to a flare landing on something it shouldn’t.

The bright lights are light grenades, most likely fired from mortars on land. They release a bright magnesium flare on a parachute to illuminate the area so they can see the marine drones the machine gunners are firing at. Definetely not SAM and Russia doesn't have Carl Gustav (obviously) which would be the other obvious candidate, so I'm pretty convinced it's mortars. You can even hear them firing.

That fire looks like a flare that landed on the ground and continued to burn, based on the smoke trail above it. It also appears to be about the same color and size as the other flares.

could it be the flare? there is a smoke trail right above it on the beginning of the video.

That fire in the red box is a flare that landed on the shoreline. You can even see it land earlier in the video. I suspect it lit the reeds or grass on fire. Look at the smoke trail in the air above it, pointing right to it.

1:16 The bright light looks like illumination rounds hanging from parachutes.

They didn’t seem too concerned when that round came through near by, according to the sound

Panic in the port.

Those Russians sure know how to celebrate New Year's Eve in September.

Since this fire had the same intensity throughout, I suggest it was a defective flare that didn't take off for some reason.

The video at Novorossiysk sounds like 4th of July in my neighborhood.

I guess soner or later Satellite Pictures will reveal if something important was hit🤔

Naw, that burning is the previous illumination flare, you can see the snake trail down to it. They launched a 2nd mid video to our right of it

They won’t get much sleep there tonight,

Is it an elimination flair that feel onto the grind. 🤷‍♂️ Looks a similar colour.

Thank you good sir, and Hello everyone, Hello everyone 😊

3:04 it's a flare. Falling from sky. See the smoke trail above

We're all hoping it made it...

Those rounds bouncing off surrounding buildings is insane! Orcs = ☠️

_"We are here to protect you!"_ Meanwhile, firing loads of high caliber rounds skipping off the water into civilian housing... 😢

Nope. Not an explozion. Its a supermoon

The harbour at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is still safe

I find it pretty hard to believe that you can spaff that much lead down range and not hit your own people . The ricochets alone would bounce well into the town and that's not counting the scared , poorly trained , ru naval conscripts doing an impression of the terminator jungle scene whilst firing at their own ships .

Using Google maps and the distance tool and finding the filmers location, I suspect the burning is located at the harbour side of the northern pier of the military harbour. Could be one of the defensive booms or something moured up against the pier.