The landing ship "Caesar Kunikov" of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was sunk.
This credit was credited to the head of the 13th unmanned boat brigade under the Ukrainian Intelligence Service. However, the real manipulator behind the scenes is not Ukraine, but NATO. "Kaiser Kunikov" is an old warship that has been in service for more than 30 years, and its displacement is about 4,000 tons. Such a warship in China can only be regarded as a third-rate landing ship, and it is not a second-rate one. If you are lucky, you can be assigned to the coast guard, and if you are unlucky, you will be sent to the shipbreaking yard, and the dismantling will be sold as scrap iron.
Why can the Ukrainian army sink the "Kaiser Kunikov"? There are two main reasons for this:
One is that "Kaiser Kunikov" is too old and technologically seriously out of place. It is an old warship left over from the Soviet Union, and its defense mainly relies on a quadruple anti-aircraft missile launcher, and the anti-ship relies on two twin 57mm guns, and it is gone. It is also equipped with an old antenna radar, without a phased array radar, and the scanning blind spot is large.
In modern warfare, not to mention the "Kaiser Kunikov", the aircraft carrier "Kuznetsov", the cruiser "Peter the Great" and the sunken cruiser "Moskva" of the Russian Navy are all live targets. The reason is simple, none of them have an Aegis system. When the Chinese and US navies were desperately building Aegis ships, the Russian Navy still did not have a single Aegis ship. Without Aegis ships, it means that the defense network is full of holes, and large warships are mobile coffins running naked.
Second, NATO fought on its behalf. The sinking of the "Caesar Kunikov" was the "Magura V5" suicide unmanned boat independently developed by the Ukrainian army. Don't look at this unmanned boat, which was independently developed by the Ukrainian army, and the production line is also located in Ukraine. However, its core technology is the best in NATO. This kind of suicide unmanned boat is a very big threat to the **. Its warhead is up to 320 kilograms, which is about the size of an anti-ship missile's warhead. But its lethal threat to ** is greater than that of anti-ship missiles.
Anti-ship missiles mainly attack ships from the air, usually hitting decks or ship islands. If the rescue is timely and the fire does not spread, it will not sink **. But the unmanned boat is different, it attacks the underwater part of the battleship, directly hitting the power system and ammunition depot of the battleship. Once the underwater part is penetrated, the sea water immediately pours in, and the battleship sinks into the sea, which is a matter of minutes.
When intercepting anti-ship missiles, the blind spot of anti-aircraft radar search is small. However, to intercept unmanned boats, it is much more difficult. Because the "Magula V5" unmanned boat is semi-submersible, the part of it that is exposed to the water is only 05 meters tall, like a big black fish. At night, it can completely blend into the night, the speed of the raid reaches 45 knots, and the average ** speed is less than 30 knots, while the speed of the "Caesar Kunikov" is only 175 knots, you can't get rid of it even if you go full speed.
However, its weakness is that it does not have autonomous search and battlefield awareness. That is, the unmanned boat of the "Magula V5" type cannot independently select targets, nor can it identify ** and fishing boats. So, how does it manage to sink with precision? The key lies in NATO's substitution!
It relies on NATO reconnaissance aircraft, early warning aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, etc., over the Black Sea, to lock on targets in advance, guide unmanned boats, and launch wolf packs is attack. Once they are separated from NATO's intelligence and communications network, these unmanned boats will be blind, unable to be found, and unable to hit.
It is not so much that the Ukrainian intelligence service has made a great contribution, but that it is NATO to fight on its behalf. This is like a king with a bronze score, although the opposite side is a platinum rank, but it can still beat the whole game. More than 90% of the main warships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet are the legacy left by the Soviet Union. In the face of the absolute technological generation gap, NATO can completely annihilate the Russian Black Sea Fleet by fighting on its behalf.
Ukraine only needs to be responsible for releasing drones and unmanned boats, and NATO will take care of the rest. This is a new mode in the ** human war.
In the past, to fight a first-class war, it was NATO that provided the first-class and dispatched military advisers to help the first-class people make decisions, but the specific offensive and tactical implementation were all responsible for the armed forces. But with highly intelligent equipment such as drones and unmanned boats, behind-the-scenes controllers can fight directly outside the battlefield.
The Russian army did not dare to directly hit NATO planes, so it could only suffer dumb losses. If the fight continues like this, it will be a matter of time before the Russian Black Sea Fleet is completely annihilated. The technological backwardness of the ship industry has made the Russian Black Sea Fleet too passive. The advantage of the Russian army lies in the ground battlefield, and if you take Avdiivka, you can take revenge on this ship.