Defence Intelligence unit sinks Russian corvette Ivanovets in Crimea – video
Defence Intelligence unit sinks Russian corvette Ivanovets in Crimea – video
Soldiers of the Group 13 special forces unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine destroyed the guided-missile corvette Ivanovets, part of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, on the night of 31 January-1 February 2024.
Soldiers of the Group 13 special forces unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine destroyed the guided-missile corvette Ivanovets, part of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, on the night of 31 January-1 February 2024.
Source: Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU)
Quote: "The operation was made possible with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the United24 platform.
The enemy vessel was on the roadstead of Lake Donuzlav in temporarily occupied Crimea.
As a result of a number of direct strikes to the hull, the Russian vessel sustained critical damage causing immobilisation – it heaved aft and sank."
That was an awesome video.
the video makes it look like they took down that corvette with an inflatable motorboat. what were they shooting at it that they were able to sink it?
it never ceases to amaze me how much Ukraine is able to accomplish with next to nothing.
the video makes it look like they took down that corvette with an inflatable motorboat.
That's basically what's happening. I don't know if they used inflatable motorboats specifically, Ukraine has used JetSki's previously, but what they're doing is packing shaped explosive charges onto small watercraft, running the craft up against the hull of the ship and then blowing it up. If you rewatch the video you can see that multiple attacking craft were used and at least two of them targeted and damaged the same area of the hull!
Those little boats pack a MEAN punch and as you can see in the video they are damn hard to hit with projectile weapons. The Russian crew was obviously shooting like crazy but they weren't able to stop the attack.
Al-Qaeda famously did this to the American Naval Vessel USS Cole back in 2000. The USS Cole didn't sink thanks to the efforts of its bad ass damage control team but the ship was seriously damaged and it took a year to rebuild her.
the small boats are explosive drones. they can take a few hits.
Ukraine and their drones. amazing.
somewhere in Ukraine, there's probably some kid, sitting in a bunker, coming up with all of these insane idea of how to make all of these crazy war drones out of scraps and garbage, and they're the reason Ukraine is still in this fight.
columns of russian troops and tanks advancing our position? just fly a few drones over them and drop hellfire. boom, gone!
a russian gunship off the coat of crimea? drone boats. boom, sunk!
Ukraine is the first country to have an entire navy and air force exclusively of - essentially - hand-made drones that's kicking the ass of a world superpower.
As outdated and poorly maintained as they may be; that is one less weapon in an evil mans arsenal. Great! Hopefully the henchmen had a bad day.
According to the article search and rescue was “unsuccessful” so we may assume all hands were lost. However bad, it was their last. I know these aren’t necessarily very fine people or anything, but I mourn what might have been if they didn’t go to the service of a futile and costly invasion.
By the time the third drone hits the ship it was already badly injured. Incredible job, Ukraine. Keep it up!
This does put a smile on my face
Truly epic.
I'm not a fan of YouTube, but it's worth in this case. Just a shot of Leo di Caprio slipping away was missing.
He would have been stuck below decks with how fast that happened.