Ukraine’s Suicide Navy Drone Attack On Russian Ships At Sevastopol Is Heralding A New Type Of Warfare

The US Sun  

Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian: Could Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian ships herald a new type of warfare? 

Use of boat drone appeared to demonstrate how effective these nimble and relatively cheap weapons can be It had all the thrill of a daring commando raid, filmed live. 

But Saturday’s dawn raid on Russia’s Black Sea fleet at Sevastopol was not carried out by elite soldiers, but by 16 drones, nine in the air and seven at sea – prompting questions as to whether the attack represented a revolutionary moment in the history of warfare. 

Three years ago, it was Dominic Cummings, before his eventful tenure at Downing St, who wrote “A teenager will be able to deploy a drone from their smartphone to sink one of these multibillion-dollar platforms,” a reference to the Royal Navy’s two new aircraft carriers, built at a total cost of £6.4bn. That time, he may have been right.  

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WNU Editor: We have seen small speedboats heavily laden with explosives crash and explode ships before .... USS Cole bombing (Wikipedia). The difference now is that the attack at Sevastopol shows that it can be done remotely with unmanned speedboats, and in swarms. If Sevastopol was not at a war-time footing, the damage that these suicide speedboats could have done would have been incredible. 

The big fear that I have now is that terrorist organizations are taking note. The damage that such an attack can have on a major port in the world, especially if an LNG installation is targeted, would be enormous.