Posted on 03/06/2024 10:26:17 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Extraordinary new footage has revealed the sheer terror faced by Russian sailors aboard a large landing ship sunk by Ukrainian kamikaze sea drones last month.
A GoPro video, taken by sailors aboard the doomed Caesar Kunikov military vessel, showed in shocking detail how the navy men desperately tried to fight off the oncoming drones in an intense 20-minute sea battle before their vessel was destroyed in a fiery explosion.
The warship was lost on February 14, but the footage has only just been released by Russian Telegram channel FighterBomber.
The hellish, chaotic scene saw a small group of seamen unloading their weapons into the murky water. Explosions rang out around them as the drones one by one slammed into the ship's hull and lit up the night sky.
But the clip also highlights how the conflict in Ukraine and Kyiv's deployment of kamikaze sea-based drones have changed the face of naval warfare.
Despite the crew letting loose thousands of rounds at the oncoming threat, the Russian battleship was powerless to defend against a flotilla of high-speed, high-explosive MAGURA V5 drones controlled by operators hundreds of miles away.
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Me personally?
Are you sure about that?
Either the Ukes have a bullet proof system they are using now or this was the Russians first time using their weapons.
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It’s the body count coming back from Russia’s “successful” Andrivka operation just a few weeks before the election. When they require you to sign your mail in ballot early, it’s a good chance you will be in the next meat wave.
Man all those ukranians who voted for zelensky were paid by the cia, wow I wonder what putin pays for his coups
You are a sick person.
30 of the first 40 were from the usuals who obsesses much!
Ukraine never fired a single shot into Russia before the 2014 invasion. These people are simply defending their own HOMES from a foreign army.
Russia can choose any day to go back to the original internationally recognized borders. All the dying will stop immediately as soon as Russians start rolling HOME and back to their own families as they did before 2014!
Tell Russia to go home.
Does anyone know of our Phalanx systems can be pointed down? I know they’re mostly for air assaults.
Tell Biden to stop sniffing kids.
Russia can choose any day to go back to the original internationally recognized borders. All the dying will stop immediately as soon as Russians start rolling HOME and back to their own families as they did before 2014!{yip! yap! snarrrl…}”
I’m fed up with the Zeepers, add me to the list. We really can’t afford to send them more $$$ when we have all these rotten illegals to deport.
—> I’m fed up with the Zeepers, add me to the list.
I hear that regularly!
You’re in!
Meanwhile Russia is waging a real war, where Ukraine is being destroyed and hundreds of thousands have been killed.
Yes, Ukraine is being genocidally erased by invading Russian filth. Ukrainians killed in the hundreds of thousands by Moscow Kremlin Bolsheviks. Again.
Shame on any American who demeans Ukrainians right to exist as a nation and ignores the obvious facts at hand. All while enjoying a political hobby from their comfy armchairs. If only Ukrainians were so lucky.
Ukraine never fired a single shot into Russia before the 2014 invasion. These people are simply defending their own HOMES from a foreign army.
Russia can choose any day to go back to the original internationally recognized borders. All the dying will stop immediately as soon as Russians start rolling HOME and back to their own families as they did before 2014!
Absolutely. This shouldn’t be a difficult issue for American conservatives. Nobody denies Russia’s right to exist. Putin and Russian chauvinists of his ilk, including Medvedev just a couple days ago, deny Ukraine’s very existance. Putin’s mafia Russia is, without a doubt, the face of 21st century genocidal Nazism.
Otherwise Russians can stay and waste their bigboy resources on a motivated defender using cheap Guerrilla tactics. Like this entire navy ship being blown up using a few fishing boats with cameras.
History has shown us time again you can't defeat a motivated defender on their home turf using even basic technology. Even the USA with far more resources failed several times.
If they stay, Russians will inevitably go broke and fall apart once again like they did during Afghanistan...
Blah, blah, blah. Another empty, cheesy, and emotive slogan, instead of a discussion of reality ,
With whom do you think you are scoring points?
Many of us have said that repeatedly. Both sides are corrupt and untrustworthy.
The majority of us are opposed to billions of our tax dollars going unaudited to a known money-laundering operation. This is especially galling when our own borders are being overrun with prison refuse from third-world hellholes.
Personally, I have never once expressed even the tiniest smidge of support for Putin or Russia, but the zeepers will screech and honk “Putin stooge!” “Bolshevik!” “Comrade!” “RuZZian stooge!” and other such nonsense at any of us who oppose our dollars going to the Ukrainian money pit.
They have earned our disdain and our mockery.
This British drone victory signed Odessa’s capture warrant.
Every Navy in the world to include our our own are acrambling for solutions to these new sea drones. America may one day lose an entire surface carrier group to Russia or China... or the hooties.
Laughing at Russia now but weeping for America sons in the near future.
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