The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that on the night of December 31, naval drones successfully attacked two Russian helicopters off the coast of Crimea. This was as a result of an operation, the details of which were revealed after initial information added that one helicopter had been destroyed.
Recall that Ukrainian Magura naval drones, which have learned to install missiles, began to strike helicopters.
The Russian military public forum, Fighterbomber, which writes about aviation, confirms the loss of helicopters. And writes that with the appearance of surface-to-air missiles on Ukrainian unmanned boats, "the situation in the Black Sea has changed dramatically, not in our favor.".
Previously, helicopters were Russia's main means of combating BEKs.
And, according to the public, now the Russian Federation can destroy naval drones only with attack aircraft, which can only operate effectively during the day, and even then, provided there is no cloud cover.
"Currently, the surface fleet is not able to protect itself from BEKs in the open sea. Or, more precisely, it is not able to effectively defend itself. With varying success, it can protect itself in bays and at bases. Accordingly, with the elimination (possibly temporary) of the helicopter component, we (and in fact no one) can ensure the safety of civil shipping at sea," the public writes.
He believes this marks a general crisis for the world's major fleets, which are now vulnerable to small submarines.
He sees the solution to the problem in using strike drones with means to suppress BEKs. But he notes that no one has them in large numbers yet.
It is also possible to jam the control frequencies of the BEKs. But so far, we have not learned how to do this either.
