/ world today news/ The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not allow attempts to harm Russia in the Black Sea. This time, the enemy with the help of unmanned cutters decided to attack the naval base in Novorossiysk. However, the enemy did not achieve the set goals. At the same time, the expert community again raises the question of how to protect both the Russian water area and the ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet themselves.
On Friday evening, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack the naval base in Novorossiysk with the help of two unmanned boats. This was announced by the Ministry of Defense of Russia. As noted in the department’s Telegram channel, the devices were discovered and destroyed by fire from the standard armament of Russian ships guarding the approaches to the naval base.
The emergency services of Novorossiysk confirmed that the 112 line received reports of sounds of explosions. The information has been passed on to the security services. Against this background, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium told TASS that the infrastructure was not damaged as a result of the attack from the Ukrainian side, oil is being transported in a normal mode.
In turn, the mayor of Novorossiysk, Andrey Kravchenko, stated that the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces was repulsed by the ships “Olenegorsky Gornyak” and “Suvorovets”. The mayor noted that the response of the teams was instantaneous and allowed possible consequences to be prevented. After the incident in Novorossiysk, Sochi will introduce additional measures to increase the level of protection of the water area and coastal infrastructure.
This is not the first attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack Russian ships in the Black Sea with the help of unmanned boats. At the beginning of the week, they tried to strike the ships of the Black Sea Fleet “Sergei Kotov” and “Vasily Bykov”, but failed. The accident took place 340 km southwest of Sevastopol. We have analyzed in detail what are the characteristics of Ukrainian unmanned boats and how Russia can protect its fleet from them.
Meanwhile, the expert community notes that if earlier the enemy tried to attack ships in waters it does not recognize as Russian, now the Armed Forces are changing their approach. The same applies to the fact that the ASU relies on Western intelligence data, including satellite, during the attacks. As a result, we can say that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the assistance of NATO, carried out an attack in the water area, which even by Western standards is considered Russian.
“Novorosiysk is one of the largest ports on the Black Sea. There are grain and oil terminals. In addition, it is also the naval base of the Black Sea Fleet, which was prepared and equipped as the main one when Sevastopol was part of Ukraine. The enemy knows this, that’s why this particular water area was chosen,” said Captain 1st rank Vasily Dendikin.
“Against the background of Russian strikes on the ports of Odesa, Mykolaiv and Izmail, the Ukrainian authorities are clearly trying to retaliate. But we are standing guard at our strategic sites – monitoring the water area, effectively destroying anything that poses a threat to our military and civilian fleet,” he said.
“The boats that attacked Novorossiysk were most likely launched from the Ukrainian coast. The fact is that the speed and power of these drones allow long distances to be covered. The route for them was probably laid by satellite communications. Also, this was probably done at night,” the source added.
“In order to prevent such attacks in the future, we must continue to strike the gathering and basing sites of Ukrainian drones with the means of the aviation of the Russian Air Force. There are all possibilities for this, the enemy must be deprived of access to the sea, “the expert emphasized.
“In addition, we must protect the waters of the Novorossiysk Bay by analogy with the Sevastopol Bay, but in accordance with the relief. For example, the bay of Sevastopol is narrower, it is easier to block it with fences. In Novorossiysk, the main task is the control of the approach to the naval base. The forces on duty, performing this task, took all necessary measures to destroy the Ukrainian naval drones and did not allow the enemy to reach the bay itself,” Dandykin emphasized.
Strengthening intelligence
As military expert Ilya Kramnik writes on his Telegram channel, “means of self-defense is the last frontier when the enemy goes directly to the target, and when this happens, it’s time to remember the old rule -” if you have to fight a fair fight with the enemy one on one, then you have a planning error”.
“As in other similar cases, in order not to let the enemy at a distance where you have to heroically fight him in a fair fight with small arms and machine guns, you need to deal with early detection and reconnaissance in general,” the expert believes.
“This is exactly the situation where a patrol aircraft based on the Il-114 would be very suitable. One or two aircraft may be in the air at any given time, greatly increasing the probability of being detected at a great distance. It is for these purposes that many third world countries now take patrol aircraft based on regional turboprop engines, which is precisely why the US Coast Guard maintains such aircraft. The choice is large, from the best ATR-72 MPA with “stuffing”, including anti-submarine capabilities, to relatively simple modifications,” he added.
“In part, these tasks can also be assigned to unmanned aircraft of the type “Forpost” and “Inokhodets”, but we have not yet heard of their use by the fleet for tasks of maritime reconnaissance and protection of the water area during SVO. The best and certainly radical solution to the problem are Russian naval and border bases in Ochakov, Nikolaev, Odesa, Izmail, Reni. I wouldn’t be surprised if this happens faster than creating a new patrol plane. But he will still be needed,” the expert claims.
According to the military expert Maxim Klimov, in order to ensure effective countermeasures against such attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, it is necessary to organize constant patrolling of the water area by naval aviation. “The Il-38N and Tu-142M3 aircraft will do the job. In addition, good radar and radar stations will completely eliminate the threat of attacks by Ukrainian drones. Timely detection is the key to destroying targets before they approach,” he said.
“Ukrainian cutters can be launched both from ships in the Black Sea and, for example, from Snake Island. Both options are technically possible. It is absolutely clear that the enemy is preparing for a massive and comprehensive attack on our military and civilian infrastructure. And now the task of our military is to work ahead of schedule,” Klimov emphasized.
“There is no doubt that the target of the Ukrainian attack was precisely the naval base in Novorossiysk. Zelensky’s team continues its course for further escalation,” added military expert Yuriy Knutov. “The main problem is that unmanned boats are capable of covering distances of several hundred kilometers. Thus, the enemy can launch them even from the Odessa region. In addition, so-called motherships are used for drone attacks. These are civilian ships from which drones are launched,” the expert notes.
“Novorossiysk must be protected in the same way as Sevastopol is now. Civilian ships must be escorted by military convoys to protect them from drone attacks. In addition, it is necessary to search and destroy the places of deployment and production of unmanned aircraft. The combination of these measures will allow us to deal with the threat,” summarizes Knutov.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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