![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/ukraine-sea-drone-pilots-are-the-new-dambusters-as-they-humiliate-putins-navy/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newspress-collage-23450757-1691908997077.jpg&description=UKRAINE sea drone pilots have been dubbed the "new Dambusters" as they humiliate Putin's crumbling navy. As the Russian dictator watched the Moskva sink last year , the must surely have thought it couldn't get worse for his beloved Black Sea Fleet. 6 Dramatic PoV video showed the moment the Ukrainian drone hit a Russian warship Credit: East2West 6 The huge blast after the strike on landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak Credit: East2West 6 But he was mistaken, because tiny Ukrainian drones are now running circles around the very same warships. And the battle for supremacy in the Black Sea is ramping up fast. The £200,000 craft terrorised the port of Sevastopol, launched daring raids on two intelligence ships, and last week blew up a military transport and an oil tanker. Putin's ally demanded revenge on Ukraine after two kamikaze sea drone attacks on prized warships within 24 hours. James Rogers, founder of the Council on Geostrategy think-tank, likened the drones to Britain's bouncing bomb - designed to swoop across water dodging torpedo nets. They were used in the Dambusters Raid of 1943 when when the 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command attacked German dams. Mr Rogers said Ukrainian ingenuity has trumped Russia's superior firepower and humiliated Putin's already red-faced fleet. " Russia has, in the past, behaved as if the Black Sea is a Russian lake," he told The Sun. "But Ukraine is making a statement: We have the means to strike you on the Black Sea, it will be contested, it is no longer a Russian lake. "[These drones] make life more complicated for the Russian navy, undermine Russia's war effort, and all of that is good for Ukraine ." Russia's Black Sea Fleet was once the pride of its navy, established by Prince Grigory Potemkin in 1783 at Sevastopol after his conquest of Crimea. It became the largest fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy and was used to dominate the Black Sea at the expense of the Ottomans - who fought and lost a series of naval campaigns throughout the 19){kind=link}
UKRAINE sea drone pilots have been dubbed the “new Dambusters” as they humiliate Putin’s crumbling navy.
As the Russian dictator watched the Moskva sink last year, the must surely have thought it couldn’t get worse for his beloved Black Sea Fleet.
But he was mistaken, because tiny Ukrainian drones are now running circles around the very same warships.
And the battle for supremacy in the Black Sea is ramping up fast.
The £200,000 craft terrorised the port of Sevastopol, launched daring raids on two intelligence ships, and last week blew up a military transport and an oil tanker.