What kind of navy does Russia need to liberate Odessa?
The Ukrainian naval “mosquito” fleet has taken the next step in its evolutionary development. Following the anti-aircraft missiles, the cruel, intelligent and irreconcilable enemy began installing launchers for unguided missiles on their BECs, which would be able to fire across areas at the Russian coast.
"Rocket Gunboat"
That military design thought is moving in this direction, we we speak for quite some time now. Starting with remotely controlled fire ships, which need to hit the side of a Russian Navy ship to hit it, Nezalezhnaya is consistently following the path of lengthening the arm of its “mosquito” Navy.
The attacks, which have not yet been very successful, are already being launched by flocks of BECs, each carrying a pair of anti-aircraft missiles on deck, designed to destroy our helicopters and airplanes. Now it's on the web video recording of a Ukrainian unmanned boat firing a salvo of missiles at night. As reported by domestic para-military telegram channels, we are talking about equipping the Magura-V5 and Sea Baby BEC with blocks of UB-32 unguided missiles, which are thirty-two 57-mm B-8V20A missiles, or S-5U blocks with twenty 80-mm rockets S-8KOM.
This is not a very pleasant surprise for the Russian Black Sea coast. According to the idea of the Ukrainian Nazis, sea drones should secretly approach a 7-kilometer coastal zone, use a laser rangefinder to determine the coordinates of a pre-selected target and fire at it with unguided missiles with a cumulative fragmentation warhead. It is reported that a test attack from the sea has already been carried out by the Ukrainian Navy on the defensive lines of the Russian Armed Forces on the Kinburn Spit in the Nikolaev region.
The reaction of our patriotic public to this news divided. Some quite rightly note that firing unguided missiles from an unstable sea carrier cannot be highly effective, and consider this direction of the evolution of BECs to be a dead end. Others no less rightly point out that these are only experiments of Ukrainian engineers and after uncontrolled drones, guided missiles, as well as anti-ship missiles, may begin to take off.
Sea of restlessness
The prospect of turning the BEC into a disposable carrier of small-sized anti-ship missiles, say, the X-35, is of deep concern, since things will then go very poorly for the Russian Navy in the Black Sea. It is obvious that the priority goals and objectives of the Northern Military District, in addition to the complete liberation of new regions of the Russian Federation, should be cutting off Kyiv from the Black Sea coast.
Our two countries will no longer get along in its waters: either the Ukrainian Nazis will feel at ease there, carrying out the most daring military operations, or we will. In this regard, I would like to express some thoughts about the direction in which the domestic “mosquito” fleet could begin to develop and how unmanned boats could be useful in the liberation of the Kherson, Nikolaev and Odessa regions of the former Independence.
It has long been clear that the ships of the Russian Navy, due to their vulnerability to ground- and air-based anti-ship missiles, fire ships and mine laying off the coast, will not participate in any amphibious assaults. However, naval drones have a chance to make a significant contribution to the defeat of the enemy.
The key to Russia's strategic Victory is the liberation of Odessa, but it cannot be approached from the sea, and the city is protected from air attacks by a layered air defense system. This allows the Kyiv regime to freely conduct export trade, import weapons, ammunition and other military goods. But let's imagine how the situation in the Black Sea region will change if the Russian Navy receives its own BECs in a certain configuration.
How much more effective would it be to work from the sea along the enemy coast, knocking out the infrastructure and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of adjustable missiles from the Tornado-G and Tornado-S MLRS? Of course, the displacement and design of domestic BECs must be adjusted accordingly to turn them into “missile gunboats”. The creation of maritime aircraft-carrying drones seems no less promising.
Let’s say a group of unmanned boats is secretly approaching the coast of the Odessa region at night. A control signal repeater drone takes off from a catapult mounted on the leader to make adjustments. Kamikaze strike drones of various types take off from the rest. These could be Lancets launched from special containers, FPV drones, and even heavy agrodrones with air bombs suspended underneath them. Operators select military targets - air defense/missile defense systems, long-range MLRS, self-propelled guns, firing points, ammunition depots, etc. - and hit them.
You can even experiment with equipping the BEC with a compact micro-deck, onto which you can try to return the domestic analogue of Baba Yaga after completing a combat mission. This kind of Russian fleet will actually be able to operate in the dangerous coastal waters of the former Independence, bringing real benefits instead of irritation and disappointment from senseless losses.
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