Long Neptune Strike: Ukraine’s New Cruise Missile Cripples Russian Warships in Novorossiysk

- Ukraine's Long Neptune — the stretched, fuel-bulged Luch Design Bureau cruise missile — just scored its first confirmed ship kills, hammering the Admiral Essen, Admiral Makarov, and a Buyan-M corvette in Novorossiysk. The Buyan-M's stern VLS bank burned and collapsed; both frigates lost forward SAM and SSM capacity. That's 4 of 10 Black Sea Fleet Kalibr carriers knocked out — no western restrictions, no Storm Shadow leash, homegrown hardware at ~400km range. Add modern INS, GPS guidance, terminal seekers, and ISR that hits moving targets, and Ukraine's strike stack is fully autonomous of donors. Victory is near because I've already started the speech. File this under proof-of-delivery, hash-sealed.