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Ukraine’s “Sub Sea Baby” Drone Cripples $400M Russian Submarine in Black Sea Port
(united24media.com)
So it's 2 subs now.... against a country without ships
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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I'm no naval expert, but in 2025, a $400 million dollar sub sounds like something ordered from Wish.
Real OceanGate vibes.
This might be a warning against Russia from using their submarines again Ukrainian shipping in retaliation to Ukraine’s strikes on shadow fleet vessels.
So far they’ve used an Iskander but that’s probably uneconomical. Now it might be even scarier for a Russian sub to sail around in the Black Sea, of which I think only 3 can be operational.
Russia is going down in history as the only country to lose a naval war against a country with no navy.
The US spent trillions of dollars over decades to do what the Ukrainians have done with some fancy remote controlled toys
Spending those trillions was the point, that it bought the world's most powerful military was a bonus.
Good job Ukraine!
Why did it never occur to me that drones should go underwater? This is brilliant!
It's more difficult as you need to be able to communicate with it and water blocks a lot of radio frequencies pretty well.
Just like air drones in Ukraine carrying kilometres of fibre optic cable, sea drones may do the same
and water blocks
You've lost me here.
you need to be able to communicate
Not necessarily. Piloting the weapon into position with internal navigation, then having the thing recognize and engage targets autonomously is becoming common with drones.
Also, you can just trail a very long wire behind the thing to communicate with home base. This is how torpedoes have worked going back to the Cold War.
Fly by wire extends to more than torpedo's, missiles too
True and there have been numerous advances in and deployment of drones with anti jamming basically dragging 5-20miles worth of fiber cable behind them. makes the landscape look like a giant spiderweb though so that's neat.
I thought you were talking about Minecraft for a second there when I read "water blocks"
Aqua sheep
The second submarine!?
Sir the drone has hit the second submarine
Idk why I expected a picture of the drone, but I was disappointed.