**BREAKING NEWS** World First: Ukrainian Maritime Drone Shoots Down Russian Flanker Jet www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2... - ThreadSky

covertshores.bsky.social • 58 days ago

**BREAKING NEWS**

World First: Ukrainian Maritime Drone Shoots Down Russian Flanker Jet
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/05/world-first-ukrainian-maritime-drone-shoots-down-russian-flanker-jet/

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jacasey73.bsky.social•57 days ago

Drones are like tanks in the First World War a complete game changer and Europe and Ukraine can completely out manufacture Russia and I can’t see china wanting to get to involved in this debacle of Russia’s making

annemiekvanmoorst.bsky.social•56 days ago

Ukraine can and must WIN. Listen to their needs.
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦💪

nerdicdefence.bsky.social•57 days ago

How do the drones even spot incoming aircraft, it surely can't be just with the EO sensors? I wonder if they are passed radar tracks from other units?

dr-john-von-pi.bsky.social•57 days ago

So Ukrainian maritime #drones can now attack surface vessels, helicopters & jets, launch several #UAV ‘s & probably lay mines as well.
Will the #USV get an #ASW (anti #submarine warfare) capability as well? Are these, when submerged, safe for now?
War at land & sea has changed for ever by drones.

madretsma.bsky.social•56 days ago

❤️‍🔥🔥

lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social•58 days ago

It kind of looks like a cybertruck, except it’s useful.

rudyprovence.bsky.social•57 days ago

The dildo of consequences comes unlubed.

richwingerter9.bsky.social•57 days ago

Maybe the Ukrainian navy is superior to the Russian navy.

marymacmixes.bsky.social•57 days ago

👏👏👏👏👏👏

peter-b-c.bsky.social•57 days ago

Crew survived allegedly.

https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3loauiykqxc2r

eihdin.bsky.social•57 days ago

This scumbag is just disgusting. He claimed that UA USV hadn't killed crew at water and hadn't targeted civilian bulk ship "for some reasons".
Of course, ru terrorists will definitely attack civil ship at same occasion

lakitukl.bsky.social•57 days ago

Nice so $250k worth of drone + missiles took out $50M in jet.

pileofgarbage.net•58 days ago

Russian strategic planners now thinking twice about Black Sea air superiority assumptions, especially when their aircraft are vulnerable to mobile USVs instead of static SAM complexes. SEAD tactics will not work against a mobile air deterrent.

pileofgarbage.net•58 days ago

In a way this is an entire new paradigm, bringing your anti-air assets to the enemy instead of waiting for them to fly into yours. Closing the distance means less reliance of targetable over-the-horizon radar, vulnerable to SEAD missions. With this new strat you just target by eye.

larthallor.bsky.social•58 days ago

Certainly demonstrates the potential for that. However, the article implies this was less about forward deployed SAMs to ambush enemy aviation and more about providing organic defensive anti-air for friendly forces, which is not a terribly new paradigm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-72_Chaparral

pileofgarbage.net•58 days ago

Those are literally the same thing although in doing so I think you've coined a better name for it: USV ambush SAM.

pileofgarbage.net•58 days ago

Nothing is new they say, ambush SAM could be attributed to SEAD defeat tactics like turning off your fucking radar so they can't nuke it with HARM lol. This however is guerrilla and powerful, bringing SAM assets to ranges where visual guidance can be utilised.

larthallor.bsky.social•58 days ago

I can see this historic event galvanizing the use of [semi-]autonomous naval SAM systems for use in the Pacific theater. These could be medium range (e.g. AMRAAM) systems used to widely distribute shooters as part of a distributed kill chain.

pileofgarbage.net•58 days ago

If you're talking about advanced SEAD then the US is already fielding that: https://youtu.be/0acJ3xyhaJo. Ofc the Black Sea isn't the same theatre.

pileofgarbage.net•58 days ago

The point is that SEAD tactics and tech exists to strike deep into enemy airspace however those only work when EOB is static. Manoeuvrable anti-air in naval theatre well shit lmao

larthallor.bsky.social•57 days ago

I’m thinking about the potential for numerous small, relatively stealthy, uncrewed vehicles equipped with more capable missiles to loiter for long periods of time in forward areas, waiting to be called upon to shoot at targets identified by other networked assets.

alberthubble.bsky.social•57 days ago

NATO sure could benefit a lot from that. Save to say Ukraine is leading in this field of technology. Support them now with even more money and buy some systems in from Ukraine in the future. Combat approved systems.

mossybadger.bsky.social•57 days ago

Taiwan should be sliding its entire defense budget to Ukraine and saying, "teach us!"

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