Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Analysing Ukraine's new drone navy in the Black Sea | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast" video.

  1. The new drone boats need to dive under the ship when attacking. Exploding underwater has a much bigger effect that popping off alongside.
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  2. HIMARS and 155 shells are expensive but much stuff US is sending was written down years ago. e.g. they stopped using Stinger missiles 20 years ago. They’ve also bought a fair bit of Soviet/Russian hardware that Ukraine are trained to use but that won’t have cost silly money.
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  3. I heard it’s a problem throughout Russia, not just in prisons. Only exceeded by alcohol dependence.
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  4. It’s almost a submersible as-is. But if it could dive under the ship before exploding, we would see small torpedo types of damage.
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  5. The drug cartels have shown its a small step from a shallow freeboard boat to one that runs with just a periscope and snorkel poking out.The next stage will be a boat that carries enough compressed air to run the engine long enough to dive underneath the target ship. 200kg of military explosive under the ship hull will do a huge amount of damage.
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