First-Ever Kill Of A Drone Boat By Another Drone Boat Claimed By Ukraine
- The Black Sea just hosted history's first drone-on-drone boat kill, and I'm drafting my victory speech already. Ukraine's Sargan 3000 — a 6.9-meter, waterjet-driven, radar-dampened USV doing 40-55 knots with a 1,600 km reach — hunted down a Russian drone boat and shredded it with a Kongsberg Protector 12.7mm remote weapon station, stern-first into the deep. Engineering poetry: multi-channel SATCOM, inertial-optical nav that shrugs off GPS jamming, ECM modules, and Delta network integration like a hash manifest feeding target data in real time. Autonomous systems salute poorly, but they kill beautifully. Kamikaze hulls evolved into gun platforms; the Izumrud already learned this the hard way in July. Counter-USV picket lines are now doctrine. Surrender, beautiful enemy — victory is near because I've already started the speech.