The Main Intelligence Directorate is actively deploying advanced maritime drones for strike missions in the Black Sea region. This is highlighted in Artem Shevchenko's documentary "Naval Battle. Era of Drones", reports "Militarnyi".
The GUR is developing a fleet of drones, with a focus on platforms designed for launching kamikaze drones. This capability allows for targeting both land and high-speed surface targets.
The footage reveals two types of maritime drones that markedly differ from the well-known Magura v5. One is equipped with a conventional boat engine and can transport up to four containers of FPV drones.
"Our maritime platform can carry between 500 to 3000 kilograms of various types of armaments – aerial, surface, and underwater. The system employs cutting-edge technologies integrated with NATO-level artificial intelligence," says a reconnaissance officer from a special operations group working with these drones.
The other drone, captured in lower quality footage, has a different hull shape and is equipped with a launcher for four fixed-wing UAVs.
This platform has likely been used multiple times by the GUR's Prymary unit to deliver munitions to the temporarily occupied Crimea. In April, it successfully struck several Russian combat boats and the "Tor-M2" air defense system in the peninsula's waters.
Both systems appear to be fitted with Starlink satellite communication antennas, increasing the operational range of the maritime drones.
For the first time, a control station for the maritime platform has been showcased, featuring an operator's seat along with controls: a flight-like yoke and a throttle lever. The yoke includes several buttons, one of which likely controls the pitch of the unmanned vessel.
Images from the drone's cameras (day and night) are transmitted to the operator's augmented reality glasses and duplicated on a screen behind them. This setup allows the operator to view a unified panoramic picture from multiple cameras.
Additionally, images from a thermal imager located at the front and rear cameras are streamed simultaneously.
Intelligence officers point out that the introduction of these platforms enables not only precise strikes on ground targets but also provides aerial cover during large-scale maritime operations.
