KBP: Means of countering drone boats

2023: Product Announcement

At the end of June 2023, it became known that the Design Bureau of Instrument Engineering, which is part of the High-Precision Complexes holding of the Rostec state corporation, had created systems for countering unpackaged boats and sea drones.

It is noted that the relevance of the fight against them has increased sharply since the start of a special military operation. Several Russian ships in the Black Sea were attacked by drone boats with combat units. The bay of Sevastopol was also attacked by naval drones in March and April.

It became known about the creation of systems to counter bookless boats and sea drones

The "Instrument Design Bureau" is working on the direction of countering non-ship boats and sea drones, the press service of the High-Precision Complexes holding told RIA Novosti.

As reported in the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukraine on May 24, 2023 tried to attack the reconnaissance ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet "Ivan Khurs" with three drone boats, which ensured the safety of the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream gas pipelines in Turkey. Russian sailors with heavy machine guns destroyed all drones 140 km northeast of the Bosphorus Strait. In May 26, 2023, the ship arrived to replenish supplies in Sevastopol.

As a source told RIA Novosti, the sea drones were controlled using the built-in Starlink, the devices themselves were produced not in Ukraine, but in the West. Target designation for drones was provided by US intelligence tools. Probably, the devices were handed over to Great Britain, which has "extensive experience in creating and combat use of such systems in various areas of the world's oceans," a state agency source said.

According to Izvestia, by 2023, dozens of models of military and civilian small and medium-sized underwater drones are in service and in operation in NATO countries. Many devices have a commercial purpose and work on the maintenance of oil and gas pipelines.^[1]

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