Ukraine made the naval drones sinking Russian warships ‘deadlier’ by arming them with bigger warheads, general says

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1. I really want to know the origin of these things, as far as I’m aware, we have no idea currently.

   The strange part about them is they appeared like 2 years ago, one washed up and photographed somewhere, if memory serves around the time something blew up and we weren’t sure how, and they were very novel then, hell they’re novel now.

   So the question is, did Ukraine whip them up real quick just after the conflict began, or did the US/UK or some other ally give them to Ukraine? Give them plans for them?

   My moneys on the latter. Interesting all the same.

2. How much do they need to take out the Kerch bridge?

3. I expect we will soon be seeing multiple use drones that launch torpedoes instead of kamikaze action.

4. Bigger bombs makes bombs deadlier

5. It’s an interesting sphere of naval warfare that harkens back to the Japanese Kaiten, the British Chariot and the Italian Maiale manned torpedoes of WW2, farther to the Italian’s early experiments and the German Fernlenkboot of WW1, and even farther still to the Turtle of the American Revolution, namely something subtle and discreet that can sneak into an enemy harbour and wreak havoc. None of those things were massively successful, but Ukraine seem to have a good formula (combined with Russian naval incompetence, which is fairly legendary even before this war) to achieve results with it. It’s a similar moment to Egypt sinking the Israeli destroyer Eilat using guided missile boats; it marks a new phase of naval warfare and a weapon system which all present and future navies will need to develop countermeasures against.