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Ukraine has claimed that in the past nine days its drone attacks have hit 116 Russian ships in the so-called “ghost fleet,” according to the General Staff in the Sea of Azov.
These massive drone swarms have been the primary weapon during the ongoing wave of attacks against Crimea as Ukraine tries to expose Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, as unable to defend the peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.
Kratos has received approximately $400m in funding from the US Department of War to support hypersonic and security-related programmes.
The Ukrainian Navy said it sank a Russian FSB patrol boat near Novorossiysk, a Russian city on the Black Sea.
“The Ukrainian Navy destroyed the Russian FSB border patrol ship Izumrud,” the Ukrainian Navy wrote on its Telegram channel. “Ukrainian sailors sank the 2nd-rank border patrol ship using a Sargan-3000 unmanned maritime system near Novorossiysk. There are casualties and injuries among the ship’s crew.”
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In another sign of Ukraine’s growing prowess in the air, Kyiv on Tuesday said that nearly a dozen additional Russian vessels had been targeted by Ukrainian drones.
Writing on his Telegram channel, the commander of Ukraine’s drone forces, Robert Brovdi, perhaps better known by his call sign Magyar, gave an update. “Over the past 9 days, 116 vessels have been intercepted by the SBS ‘Birds’ in the Sea of Azov as part of the ongoing operation against Russian vessels.
The active duty Army likes to poke fun at the soldiers in the National Guard and Reserve components, sometimes calling them “Weekend Warriors.” But the Guard and Reserve play a critical role in supporting the active duty component and the broader Army’s mission. Nowhere was this more apprent than during the height of the Global War on Terror, when Guard and Reserve soldiers were regularly deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Just ask Aaron Zaliponi, a 14-year National Guard infantryman with three combat deployments.