A Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicle, beached near Sevastopol. Via social media An apparent Ukrainian drone-boat strike on Novorossiysk, a hundred miles from Russian-occupied Crimea in southern Russia...
Tag: Black Sea Fleet
Four Days After A Ukrainian Drone Assault, Russia’s Black Sea Flagship Is Still Afloat
‘Admiral Makarov’ in 2018. Russian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian drone assault on Sevastopol, the home port of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, may have damaged one of the fleet’s two best...
The Russian Black Sea Fleet May Have Lost Another Flagship
‘Admiral Makarov.’ Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian navy for months has been hunting the Russian navy frigate Admiral Makarov. It seems the Ukrainians finally got a shot at the 409-foot, mi...
Videos Reveal Drone Kamikaze Boat Assault On Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Perspective of USV approaching Russian Navy frigate Admiral Makarov on morning of October 29. Video capture from Ukrainian military video On the morning of October 29, warships of Russia’s Black Sea F...
Russian Navy Crews Are Under Orders To Avoid The Ukrainian Coast
‘Moskva’ burns on April 13, 2022. Photo via social media The commanders of the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet are scared to send their surviving surface warships beyond sight of the Crimea...
The Ukrainians Have Struck Another Russian Airfield In Crimea
The air base at Hvardiiske before the Aug. 16, 2022 raid. Maxar Technologies photo A Ukrainian drone blew up an ammunition dump at a Russian airfield near Hvardiiske in occupied Crimea on Tuesday, acc...
Afraid Of Ukrainian Missiles, The Russians Are Chaining Air-Defense Vehicles To Ships
A Project 22160 with a Tor aboard. Photo via social media The Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet still is strapping Tor air-defense vehicles to at least one of its corvettes, clearly hoping to protect the...
Ukrainian Troops Just Hoisted Their Flag On Snake Island—Then Speeded Away As Russian Missiles Rained Down
Ukrainian forces on Snake Island on July 7, 2022. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A team of Ukrainian troops riding in at least one machine-gun-armed small boat landed on Snake Island around dawn on ...
Ukraine’s Weirdest Howitzer Drove Russian Troops Off Snake Island
The 2S22 in action on the coast. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian army’s rarest artillery played a pivotal role in finally driving Russian troops off strategic Snake Island in the wester...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Needs Boats. Captured Ukrainian Vessels Might Be Just The Thing.
An ex-Ukrainian ‘Gyurza’ in Russian service. Photo via social media The Russian navy’s battered Black Sea flotilla is so desperate for hulls that it’s begun putting its sailors on boats it...
One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The Russian Navy
A ‘Serna’ landing craft maneuvers to avoid an apparent MAM missile on May 12, 2022. Maxar photo The Russian Black Sea Fleet began the wider war with Ukraine in late February with maybe 11 ...
A Journalist Just Spotted Russia’s ‘Admiral Makarov’ Frigate, Intact And At Sea
‘Admiral Makarov’ before the war. Photo via Wikimedia Commons H.I. Sutton, an independent journalist focusing on naval warfare, has spotted more than a dozen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Started The War With Eight ‘Raptor’ Patrol Boats. It Might Have Three Left.
A ‘Raptor’ patrol boat. Photo via Wikipedia In 10 weeks of fighting, Ukraine’s TB-2 drones and anti-tank missile teams have wreaked havoc on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s patrol boat floti...
Ukraine’s Best Fighter Jets Just Bombed The Hell Out Of The Russian Troops On Snake Island
Su-27s strike Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture The Ukrainian air force’s best fighter jets just staged a daring raid on the Russian force occupying Ukraine’s strategic Snake Island. Th...
Another Russian Warship Is Burning In The Black Sea
The Russian warship “Admiral Makarov” passes through Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey on August 13, … [+] 2021. (Photo by Muhammed Gencebay Gur/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu ...
The Russian Frigate ‘Admiral Makarov’ Might Be The Juiciest Target In The Black Sea
‘Admiral Makarov.’ Russian navy photo After the dramatic sinking of the missile-cruiser Moskva by a Ukrainian missile battery on April 14, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is down to just three...
The Russians Are Losing The Naval War Off Ukraine—To An Enemy With No Warships
A TB-2’s view of a ‘Raptor’ patrol boat right before hitting it with a missile. Ukrainian defense ministry Ukraine’s navy, which after scuttling its flagship no longer has a single l...
T-72s To The Rescue? Ukraine’s 5th Tank Brigade Could Roll Into Battle Any Day Now.
Ukrainian tanks train in 2021. Ukrainian defense ministry The Ukrainian military’s success in sinking and damaging Russian warships could have a happy side-effect for Ukraine’s war effort on land. The...