Russian Ukraine Invasion

[RainbowUnicorn]

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/cBETKzFZqhw

[RainbowUnicorn]

UPDATE

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/BEEYgaDfNvU

[Yazata]

Ukrainian secret weapon unveiled? This is all over the Russian internet today. It's a drone boat that washed up along the coast at Sevastopol Crimea, not far from the Russian Black Sea fleet base. It has a water jet engine and can probably move fast. There are sensors at the front, optical and FLIR on top, and a comms antenna. Unknown what kind of explosives it carries, but is apparently designed to either ram or come alongside warships and then explode. Unknown what its range is, how it is controlled or from where. Unknown if it was manufactured in Ukraine or somewhere else (like the US?)

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/202...evastopol/

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It appears that Ukraine's drone boats have just been put to effective use, along with flying drones.

Last night about 3 AM several explosions rocked the Sevastopol naval base in Crimea, home base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. The Russian military is calling it "the largest drone attack since the war began", and say that some 9 UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles/flying drones) and 7 drone boats were involved. Fuel and munitions storage was targeted by the flying drones, but damage appears to be limited.

The Ukrainians seem to have had more success with their drone boats. A Russian minesweeper, the 'Ivan Golubets', was "slightly damaged" according to Russian sources. And a missile frigate, the 'Admiral Makarov' may or may not have suffered hull damage. (The Admiral Makarov is the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, after the loss of the cruiser Moskva to Ukrainian missiles earlier in the war.) Unclear how serious the damage was to these ships.

This morning Russian helicopters were visible over the sea west of Sevastopol dropping explosive charges, apparently hunting for and trying to destroy more drone boats.

Video in the tweet below from one of the drone boats, showing it inbound with Russian helicopters shooting at it. (This video must be from a Ukrainian navy source.) It was daytime when this video was recorded.

https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/stat...2845531136

What we appear to be seeing in the video above

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The Admiral Makarov prior to the attack:

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[Yazata]

The Russian Defense Ministry is claiming that the British royal navy blew up the nordstream pipeline in the Baltic.

What's more, they claim that the British trained the Ukrainian marine special forces unit that launched the drone-boat attack on Sevastopol.

I knew it!

[stryder]

The Russian Defense Ministry is claiming that the British royal navy blew up the nordstream pipeline in the Baltic.

What's more, they claim that the British trained the Ukrainian marine special forces unit that launched the drone-boat attack on Sevastopol.

I knew it!

From some of the footage of the pipe, I'd consider that it was blown up from inside the pipe. Which means something had to be inserted at the Russian end and travel down the pipe. As to whether it was a sabotage drone with the intension of destroying the Storage facilities the gas was heading to (in Germany?) or the pipe itself, or debris from an accident at the Russian end filtering through, I couldn't tell you.

[Kornee]

All the sane analysis points to Globalist warmongers within the US or maybe as Russia currently claims, the UK (Likely as US proxy) as behind the sabotage:
https://worldaffairs.blog/2022/09/29/us-...n-economy/

[Yazata]

GeoConfirmed (One of the Osint sites) has a very informative Twitter thread putting together pretty much all of the publicly available photos and videos (some of which had to have come from Ukrainian naval sources since the video came from drone boat onboard cameras) showing the drone-boat attack.

They conclude that attacks occurred both at night and after sunrise in daylight. It looks like at least 3 drone boats each time. Two boats appear to have been blown up by Russian fire before they could reach a target. They have infrared video of the Admiral Makarov being hit as it was underway, along with the minesweeper. There's also video of a droneboat moving inside the harbor between Russian ships at anchor, looking for attractive targets. GeoConfirmed think that at least three Russian ships were hit.

https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/...9697348608

Drone boat wants to attack the warship in the red circle. Russian navy helicopter is trying to prevent it.

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Infrared image of the Russian warship successfully struck is consistent with the Admiral Makarov

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We still need more data about whether the Admiral Makarov was sunk. Satellite imagery is probably trying to determine that as we speak.

Edit: Just noticed that the hull number in photograph in this post (494) is different than in the photograph several posts above (799) which appears to have been taken in St. Petersburg judging by the architecture. I'm guessing that at least one of the photos isn't really the Admiral Makarov, but rather an illustration of a warship of the same class. Various sources are saying that the Admiral Makarov was the only frigate of this particular class in Sevastopol.

According to Wikipedia, the Russian navy only has three of this particular class. Two more are under construction for India. And still another is under construction for an unknown foreign customer, thought to also be India.

[RainbowUnicorn]

UPDATE
(there is some fake accounts making fakes of his video so check it is his channel)

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/q_CY7RyJNDo

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All the sane analysis points to Globalist warmongers within the US or maybe as Russia currently claims, the UK (Likely as US proxy) as behind the sabotage:
https://worldaffairs.blog/2022/09/29/us-...n-economy/

if the intention was to create more war they would have targeted something inside Russian territory.

the west has nothing to gain from blowing up the pipe
look at the car bomb which russia made and blew up the daughter of a russian oligarch.
only russia FSB could have done that.

[Yazata]

I'm very doubtful that the British blew up the pipeline. It's possible though, they do have the technical ability to do it.

It looks to me like this allegation is just shit-stirring by Moscow, in hopes of turning the German (and other European) publics against Britain (and/or the US) if this winter starts to be cold and dark in countries that imported large quantities of Russian natural gas. Creating disunity among countries that they see (probably rightly) as their opponents would seem to be in their interest.

I don't know whether Ukraine had any foreign assistance in developing the drone boats. Ukraine has very good engineers and they could very well have done it themselves.

[C C]

Ukraine should also consider drone mini-subs. There are at least four ways of detecting submersible craft, but they're less convenient than a lookout person simply spotting a peculiar or suspicious boat approaching with his/her own eyes.