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2023-05-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
'Ivan Khurs' returns to Sevastopol
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Posted by badanov 2023-05-27 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 I posted this article last night but didn't show up:
Drone Boat Attack On Russian Ship In Black Sea Story Keeps Getting Weirder

Included was a link to a video showing an explosion to the port stern.

I didn't look as powerful as the first two and likely only partially detonated.
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-27 00:40||   2023-05-27 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 I wasn't able to review it before posting.

Not time sensitive, so it got pushed back to Sunday.
Posted by badanov 2023-05-27 01:08||   2023-05-27 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Stacked with today's story.
Posted by badanov 2023-05-27 01:28||   2023-05-27 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 No prob. Wondered if it got lost in the aether.

And on second thought, that stern explosion may have been full power. It looks small because the Khurs is a large ship (a frigate hull, 100m, 4000 tons). It has to be at least 20m high. The other 2 explosions look so large due to them being closer to the camera drone. So how is the Khurs pictured entering port w/o even scorched paint? Getting Weirder.
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-27 01:31||   2023-05-27 01:31|| Front Page Top

#5 From Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots:

So the Ministry of Defense showed the Ivan Khurs attacked by surface drones. From all sides. Meeting the ship in Sevastopol.

Posted by badanov 2023-05-27 02:43||   2023-05-27 02:43|| Front Page Top

#6 
Posted by badanov 2023-05-27 02:51||   2023-05-27 02:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Satellite Imagery of Sevastopol Base Shows The Ivan Khurs Has Docked
Posted by DarthVader 2023-05-27 10:14||   2023-05-27 10:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Drones sent to remove Turkstream pipeline defenses



From the article:

If US intel helped Ukraine’s drones target the Russian ship, NATO member Turkey won’t be mollified easily.

If you should think this looks a little like the case of the Nordstream pipeline, you would not be wrong. The difference is that this was aimed as a political attack on Turkey and Hungary – not to sell US LNG to either, as was the case with Germany.

The Ivan Khurs is equipped with specialized sensors and communications gear. If it should detect a threat to the pipeline it would call in Russian air strikes against the intruder.

The Ukrainians carried out this operation in the Bosporus, around 80 miles from the Turkish mainland. It is reasonable to say that this attack wasn’t just on the Russians, but it was the first part of an attack on a NATO ally, Turkey and other gas consumers, especially Hungary – also a NATO ally.

The long distance from Ukraine proper suggests that Ukraine would have needed real-time intelligence to locate the Russian ship and target it.

Here comes the disturbing part. Reportedly there was a US RQ-4 remotely piloted surveillance aircraft in the vicinity of this incident. The RQ-4 could have provided real-time targeting information and also could have relayed the same information to the Ukrainian unmanned naval drone. While there is no hard evidence that the RQ-4 played any role, how else could Ukraine have managed this operation?





Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-05-27 12:29||   2023-05-27 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 tl;dr: The ship we all saw not get blown up somehow made it back to port under its own power with no signs of damage.

Personally, I would have expected some scorch marks.
Posted by SteveS 2023-05-27 21:36||   2023-05-27 21:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Lesson learned. Next time use HEAT/EFP warheads on those drone boats.
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-27 22:32||   2023-05-27 22:32|| Front Page Top

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