{"id":18977,"date":"2026-07-20T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/18977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:51:37","slug":"ukraine-launches-first-fpv-drone-strikes-from-unmanned-barracuda-boats-the-new-voice-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/18977\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine launches first FPV drone strikes from unmanned Barracuda boats \/ The New Voice of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a8aa0283a7365d35a894d19b9672eb3.png\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Ukrainian Marines launch first FPV drone attack on Russian forces from unmanned boats (Photo: Video screenshot \/ 40th Separate Marine Brigade)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content__head_img-info\">\n                Ukrainian Marines launch first FPV drone attack on Russian forces from unmanned boats (Photo: Video screenshot \/ 40th Separate Marine Brigade)\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ukrainian marines launched FPV drones from Barracuda<br \/>\nunmanned surface vessels for the first time, striking Russian positions near<br \/>\nZaliznyi Port in Kherson Oblast, the 40th Separate Marine Brigade reported on<br \/>\nJuly 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The brigade said a swarm of modular Barracuda boats came<br \/>\nunder attack while carrying out a combat mission. Russian forces used four<br \/>\nLancet drones to disable one of the vessels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Russian propagandists posted footage of the strike online<br \/>\nand \u201cboasted\u201d about it, but the loss of one boat did not stop the operation,<br \/>\nthe marines said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The remaining boats reached the drone launch point. After<br \/>\nconducting additional reconnaissance, the marines launched FPV drones that<br \/>\nstruck Russian logistics, concealed positions and personnel in the Zaliznyi<br \/>\nPort area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On June 24, the Ukrainian Navy and the Defense Ministry\u2019s<br \/>\nMain Intelligence Directorate, or HUR, detected and destroyed three Russian<br \/>\nunmanned surface vessels in a single operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold\">Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewVoiceUkraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheNewVoiceUkraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and<br \/>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLeesQswxLnIAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Marines launch first FPV drone attack on Russian forces from unmanned boats (Photo: Video screenshot \/ 40th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4213,7393,4131,3266],"class_list":["post-18977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-fpv-drones","tag-fpv-drones-at-sea","tag-hur","tag-ukrainian-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}