That video amazing! I don’t see any sort of disturbance on the surface that would indicate something moving underwater. To remotely maneuver into that port, around the other docked ships, and target the sub takes a lot of ingenuity & expertise.
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That's impressive!
Even Russia would probably have netting and sonar bouys in place around their own major naval base. It seems extremely unlikely that Russia wouldn't take those super basic measures, which means this drone was stealthy enough to avoid sonar systems AND able to Dodge Submarine/torpedo netting while inside a shallow port.
It looked like there were a lot of warship targets in the footage.
I'm sure there was a good reason why that particular sub was targeted, "four cruise missile launchers for “Kalibr” missiles" aside.
Subs are hard to find normally so if you see one it is automatitally a high priority to get it even if you reveal some secrets you don't want them to know (like you can monitor their harbor?). also this sub was launching missles at Ukraine, the other ships were not as useful
True, but there were at least 2 other subs in the footage, so there must have been some reason why this particular submarine was targeted in favor of the others.
This sub was equipped to launch missiles. It is unlikely Ukraine would say why this one.
Could be the only had the ability get one (that is only one sub sea baby), and it was random chance. Could be they could bypass the protections on this while the others were protected by something (sea nets, sonar...) they didn't think they could get by. Those are two obvious ones I can think of (and thus assume Russia knows more than me if either is possibly true). There may be a completely different reason I can't think of though - again I would expect Ukraine not to say (of if they say it might be an incorrect misdirection)
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