Year After Year, Ukraine Has Been Hunting The Same Few Russian Ships
Drones target landing ships in Sevastopol
Increasingly unconstrained by Russia’s collapsing air defenses, Ukrainian forces are doing a little clean-up in occupied Crimea. A barrage of long-range first-person-view attack drones—including, it seems, Fire Point FP-1s or FP-2s—struck Russian bases and a radar and plinked an apparent decoy Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor.
The drones also ran down three warships belonging to the depleted Black Sea Fleet, two of which the Ukrainians have been trying to sink for a few years now. Captures from the attacking drones imply they at least came close to hitting the ships. It may take time to confirm any actual damage.
The Ukrainian military intelligence agency, the SBU, claimed its Alpha drone group hit Sevastopol—the Black Sea Fleet’s former home port—and Belbek air base, damaging or destroying:
the landing ship Yamal,
the landing ship Filchenkov,
the reconnaissance ship Ivan Hurs,
the Lukoka training center,
an air defense headquarters,
an MRS-10M1 radar,
a MiG-31 aircraft at Belbek and
the “technical and operational part” of Belbek.
