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Suspected Ukrainian Explosive Sea Drone Made From Recreational Watercraft Parts
https://news.usni.org ^ | Oct 11, 2022

Posted on 10/12/2022 3:18:08 AM PDT by 11th_VA

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Don’t think that was a car bomb that did the bridge …,


1 posted on 10/12/2022 3:18:08 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Florida man?


2 posted on 10/12/2022 3:33:25 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: 11th_VA

I guess that would be “assault” recreational watercraft parts.


3 posted on 10/12/2022 3:34:48 AM PDT by jimfree (My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: 11th_VA

Bad image link


4 posted on 10/12/2022 3:35:01 AM PDT by null and void (Can't hear the Rod Serling narration? You are not in the audience. You are a part of the story.)
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There is speculation that such a device/vehicle was used to remotely detonate the explosive device in the truck which exploded on the Crimean Bridge.

Seen pictures and slow motion videos of such a claim.
Not entirely convinced but it is plausible.


5 posted on 10/12/2022 3:38:21 AM PDT by cranked
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https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Ukrainian-USV-Explosive-Jetski-Cutaway.jpg


6 posted on 10/12/2022 3:39:25 AM PDT by cranked
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To: 11th_VA

https://americanmediaperiscope.com/the-rods-of-god-strike-the-kerch-bridge/


7 posted on 10/12/2022 3:47:22 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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Ghost boat. Sounds just as absurd as ghost gun, no?


8 posted on 10/12/2022 4:04:08 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: cranked

Thanks


9 posted on 10/12/2022 4:06:57 AM PDT by null and void (Can't hear the Rod Serling narration? You are not in the audience. You are a part of the story.)
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To: null and void

Yes Sir, no problem.


10 posted on 10/12/2022 4:11:02 AM PDT by cranked
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To: 11th_VA
Hmmm, they must have 63Bs in their Army, too.
11 posted on 10/12/2022 4:12:14 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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It was the truck bomb, on the road.

A water-level attack MIGHT have taken out a pier, at water level, (MIGHT, depending on amount of explosive, configuration, placement, etc.), but the damage clearly was from above, to the roadway, and the side-flash of the elevated explosion ignited the tanker cars on the adjoining RR bridge.

In my younger days as a UDT/SEAL, I have been on the beach and in the water with small groups that, combined, blew up tons and tons of C-4 and TNT, any way you can imagine. Including making our own shaped charges, platter charges, etc. From little one-pound devices to a ton at a time. Often using high explosives in industrial quantities as a raw material, for custom applications (in training only.)

I just mention the above as bona fides. I know what I’m talking about.


12 posted on 10/12/2022 4:20:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Libloather

LOL! My thoughts too!


13 posted on 10/12/2022 4:21:40 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: cranked

See 12.

I have no doubt the Ukrainians are moving down many parallel lines attempting to take out that bridge and other naval and infrastructure targets on the Black Sea.

But last week’s bridge blast was a truck bomb on the roadway.


14 posted on 10/12/2022 4:21:51 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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“But last week’s bridge blast was a truck bomb on the roadway.”

Yeah, my current take, as well.

I just mentioned what I did cause it was/is part of many speculations that exist.


15 posted on 10/12/2022 4:25:36 AM PDT by cranked
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Don’t know about y’all, but “Ukraine built this” was totally my first thought when I saw a picture of a professionally manufactured drone bomb with no identifying markings. Didn’t think CIA for a second.


16 posted on 10/12/2022 4:29:46 AM PDT by jz638
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To: cranked
At the top of the list, but requiring a state actor to back it (way beyond Ukraine's capability) are UUVs.

But even while they are great for attacking an unprotected very long pipeline, a target like the Crimea Bridge will have every kind of underwater defenses. Mini-subs won't get anywhere near it. And the only nation that would even try it, in the Black Sea, is the US Navy, and they would not risk having frogmen captured or killed and displayed.

17 posted on 10/12/2022 4:39:47 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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I just mention the above as bona fides.

Sure, Comrade Travis.

18 posted on 10/12/2022 5:05:12 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: 11th_VA

Boom goes the converted swimming pool cleaner.


19 posted on 10/12/2022 5:05:16 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Travis McGee

Agreed.


20 posted on 10/12/2022 5:07:55 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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