Ukraine Deploys Upgraded 'Sea Baby' Drones Equipped With Rocket Launchers

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The modified naval drones are 'already showing powerful results,' a source in Ukraine's SBU security service told Newsweek.

Ukraine has begun to deploy adapted naval drones fitted with multiple rocket launchers against Russian forces, in the latest push from Kyiv to keep ahead of Moscow in the fast-paced development of uncrewed vehicles for the war effort.The SBU, Ukraine's state security service, is already using modified Sea Baby naval drones fitted with Soviet-era Grad multiple rocket launchers against Moscow's forces in the south of the war-torn country, an SBU source told Newsweek Wednesday.

Russia has struggled to fend off the threat posed by Ukraine's innovative naval drones. Uncrewed surface vehicles have zeroed in on Moscow's Black Sea Fleet and are credited with destroying and damaging a slew of Russian vessels.In March, Moscow announced it would add 'additional fire weapons, large-caliber machine-gun rifle systems' to its Black Sea Fleet to 'destroy enemy drones.

 

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