H I Sutton
@covertshores
Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos
Updated my War in Black Sea tracker www.hisutton.com/Timeline-202... Still some daily tallies of Ukrainian drone strikes on tankers et al in Sea of azov to add. But major developments in past few days.
Here’s one cut in half I don’t think a cutaway would answer it though, they are just mostly going for the bridge /superstructure
Can anyone help me identify this Ukrainian ground robot (UGV) used in the recent amphibious raid by 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade?
Chinerse interceptor drone Zhuifeng XCZT-ZF01A1, with 8-round bin launcher. Performance is bottom-end for interceptor drones, only 120m/s, 10km radnge. But designed to be recoverable, maybe reusable. Interesting, but seems to be solving a different problem to Ukraine's interceoptor drones
A Danish USV manufacturer, Stormborn, has accidently provided an excellent example of how Denmark, and other European Navies, can better monitor increased Russian Naval activity and hybrid warfare operations at sea. Article-> www.hisutton.com/Stormborn-US...
New Russian anti-drone weapon has a demonstrated range of around 60 meters!
Only China has the autonomous planes big enough I think? www.hisutton.com/Chinese-Carg...
Per the article, they’ve used them to target a bridge and warships (in this case submarines) in port
New article: Ukrainian Navy Reveals Unknown Underwater Drone (UUV) - www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Na...
"You don't have anything from the Allied side?" "No, no. That sort of thing wouldn't interest me at all."
Video shared on Chinese social media of a Type-052D destroyer being towed out of a shipyard. Two are visible (blue arrows) HOWEVER, more revealing.... there are five LNG tankers at various stages opf construction in the same image. China is building a HUGE number of KLNG tankers. #OSINT
Electricity substation supplying Crimea from Russia on fire this morning. Smoking accident(?) #OSINT
Is it a shark? Is it a whale? Is it a penguin?!?! No, it’s a cool underwater drone from Germany. The Greyshark AUV Here-> www.hisutton.com/Greyshark-AU...
HMS K-10 was a Royal Navy K-Class steam powered cruiser submarine. Radical combination of fixed forwards, broadside (shooting sideways) and swivel torpedo tubes, plus deck guns…