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| Expert assesses the data of hackers about the place of launching drones on the Crimean bridge |
| 2023-07-21 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The maritime explosive drones that were used in the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge could indeed have been launched from civilian ships sailing in the Black Sea under neutral flags. Military expert Mikhail Onufrienko told this to an IA Regnum correspondent on July 20 , commenting on the results of the work of the RaHDit hacker group, which published the routes of the tankers from which those drones were most likely launched. “This is most likely, ” agreed Onufrienko. - However, I would not single out a tanker, dry cargo ship, lighter (a kind of barge. - Approx. IA Regnum ) or any other vessel that passes near the Crimean bridge. Launching drones from ships is more convenient than sending them from, say, Odessa. Moreover, the unmanned boats known to me do not have the required range. Plus, as the expert explained, the probability of failure at such distances is too high - they broke down, went astray, were discovered. The risk is very high. “And the situation is different if, for example, a chartered vessel goes to Georgia. It dropped several of these drones along the way and moved on. It's impossible to prove anything. You can take any route going to Georgia and say that it was dropped from here,” Onufrienko said. According to him, the only way to prove something is to capture such a ship in neutral waters, interrogate the crew, deliver it to Russian ports, and so on. In other words, intelligence should work well in this situation. But, according to Onufrienko, it is very difficult and almost impossible to implement this. However, there is a fairly effective system of protection against such drones. And first of all, this is the cover of the bridge with multi-tiered booms (floating) barriers. “This is a reliable way to protect against any waterfowl. Because if there are two or three rows of nets there, then even if the drone slips through the first row, it will be detected (after all, the machine weighs more than one hundred kilograms). Such a device makes noise, rattles and rests on the next row of barriers and is destroyed, ” Onufrienko explained. Such barriers, as the expert believes, can be installed near the bridge where there are no shipping routes. “After all, where the drones attacked the bridge, ships do not pass. It was about a section of the roadway, which is located low above the water surface and therefore suffered. The railway span above was not affected, ” Onufrienko recalled. The second most effective means is heavy machine guns. Because we are not talking about armored targets, and they are easily damaged. As the expert emphasized, the range of such weapons allows them to operate at a distance of several kilometers. Moreover, the drone is a target that is clearly visible in all modes. And there are a lot of machine guns, and they are cheap. “There are many places to place firing points. First, the island of Tuzla, which stretches long and far. Secondly, there was a technical bridge, which is now partially dismantled, but it can be restored. Also, the installation of firing points is possible on the Crimean bridge itself, where there are many technical rooms below the level of the roadway. And the range of destruction of machine guns does not require them to be installed every 10 meters. In other words, it is necessary to increase the density of the fire cover of the bridge, ” Onufrienko believes. Moreover, in his opinion, one should not be limited only to the outer, Black Sea, part. It is also necessary to cover the bridge from the Azov side. Earlier , IA Regnum reported that a group of hackers RaHDit published the routes of civilian ships from which they could launch drone boats that hit the Crimean bridge. Two tankers, Beks Loyal and Khudayar Yusifzade, could have participated in this SBU operation. One of these ships drifted 100 km from Novorossiysk a few days before the attack. The second is to the south. Prior to this, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee informed that on the night of July 17, Kyiv carried out a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge using two surface drones. Two people were killed and a 14-year-old girl was injured. More from regnum.ru Disclosed the routes of ships from which they could hit the Crimean bridge The RaHDit hacker group published the routes of civilian ships from which they could launch drone boats along the Crimean bridge, RIA Novosti reported on July 20. As follows from the RaHDit investigation, two tankers Beks Loyal and Khudayar Yusifzade could have participated in the SBU operation. It is noted that one of them a few days before the attack drifted 100 km from Novorossiysk. The second drifted south. Later, both tankers met at sea. According to the hackers, at that moment, drones were transferred from one of the tankers to another. To control unmanned boats, another ship was probably used, which was drifting with a direct line of sight to the Crimean bridge. As reported by IA Regnum , on the night of July 17, Kiev carried out a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge with two surface drones. As a result of the attack, two people were killed - a married couple from the Belgorod region. Their minor daughter was hospitalized. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the terrorist attack on the bridge brutal and, from a military point of view, pointless, since the Crimean bridge has long been no longer used for military transportation, and innocent civilians were injured and killed. |
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