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(Dan Tri) – The `wolf pack` tactic of using suicide unmanned boats, used by Ukraine, has `locked` the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy in port.
Image posted by Ukraine of the attack on the Russian ship (Photo: EP).
What is Ukraine’s `wolf pack` strategy at sea?
Accordingly, the Ukrainian Navy used many unmanned suicide boats (USVs) to focus on attacking Russian warships.
From the night of January 31 to the morning of February 1, 2023, the 13th Special Force of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Department used 3-4 small unmanned boats to successfully sink Ivanovets, a defense ship.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has not responded to the incident, but videos and images on Russian social networks have proven the authenticity of the attack.
According to many foreign information, at 3:42 a.m. on February 1, 2023, the first USV of the Ukrainian Navy attacked Ivanovets.
Sailors began evacuating and abandoned efforts to save the ship, which was commissioned in 1989. About 50 minutes later, it sank into the icy waters of Lake Donuzlav.
The video filmed by Ukraine’s 4th USV shows that, after sinking, only a few meters of the missile ship’s nose remained exposed above the water.
The videos released by Ukraine are very simple, but the actual combat process is more intense, especially for the sailors on the Russian corvette Ivanovets.
According to the video released by the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency, the Russian warship was not motionless throughout the naval battle.
At this time, if you look down from above, the battle will look like a pack of wolves attacking a sheep.
But this time on the Black Sea there were not wolves in the wild, but the Russian ship was defeated by the Ukrainian `wolf pack`.
Then, the backup USV filmed the battle from afar and a bright flame appeared on the water surface, a column of fire erupted and smoke rose dozens of meters high, leading people to suspect that fuel or missiles on board may have been
Ukraine released a video announcing the sinking of the Russian warship (Source: Ukraine Task Force 13).
In any case, the Ivanovets certainly could not survive.
The losses were also publicized on Russian social networks.
It is possible that the Black Sea Fleet has conducted significant evacuation exercises over the past year.
Ivanovets is a light corvette of the Tarantul Project 1241.1 class – developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s – launched in 1988 and used in 1989. The ship is 56m long, has a full load displacement of 549 tons, so it
Regarding weapons, the ship is equipped with 4 3M80 Moskit supersonic anti-ship missiles, 76mm AK-176 main gun and 2 30mm 30mm AK-630 rapid-fire guns.
The 3M80 Moskit supersonic anti-ship missile has a maximum range of 130km and weighs 320kg.
The video shows that the location where the third USV crashed into the ship was right below the missile launcher.
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Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters is said to have been seriously damaged after Ukraine’s attack on September 22, 2023 (Photo: Telegram).
The Black Sea Fleet was `at a loss` before a light opponent
This Russian fleet is responsible for controlling the Black Sea, blocking Ukraine’s sea routes, providing fire support and support for amphibious operations as much as possible, and maintaining supply routes at sea.
However, few people expect that the Black Sea Fleet, which has an overwhelming advantage, has encountered many difficulties over the past two years.
Ukraine, which has lost almost all its warships, does not have many underwater weapons and does not have high-quality weapons, but anti-ship missiles and unmanned boats have caused heavy losses to the Sea Fleet
In 2023, many other warships of the Black Sea Fleet were continuously sunk or seriously damaged by Ukrainian USVs.
For example, the Orsk amphibious ship newly arrived from Syria and the Kilo-class submarine Rostov-on-Don under repair at Sevastopol port were sunk by Ukrainian cruise missiles.
The sinking of Ivanovets and most recently the newly launched Russian patrol ship Sergey Kotov.
First, the Black Sea Fleet has actually been turned into a fleet `in name but not in reality` and is likely unable to complete its mission in the Black Sea, until the Russia-Ukraine conflict ends.
Second, Ukraine once again used USVs with brilliant results.
Finally, it must be admitted that, with the development of unmanned weapons, traditional medium and large surface ships have been repeatedly confirmed to be vulnerable to such weapons.
Clearly, war has begun to enter an asymmetrical era.
From this perspective, Ukraine’s `wolf pack` tactics have posed the difficult problem of finding ways to combat USVs and anti-ship missiles for the world’s naval powers, including the US and China.