Copies Ukraine: why Russia built the Dandelion naval surface drone

Russia created a surface drone, very similar to the Ukrainian sea drones – See Baby and Magura. The UAV seems to be used in the combat zone in the Black Sea.

The kamikaze drone “Dandelion” should be the first in a series of 10 similar maritime UAVs. Retired Lieutenant General, founder of the “Let's Close the Skies of Ukraine” Charitable Foundation Igor Romanenko told Channel 24 why the aggressor country built the Dandelion naval drone. Previously, we told which vessels of the Black Sea Fleet Russia decided to leave in Sevastopol.

The enemy takes an example from Ukraine

The Russians adopted the positive experience of using FPV drones in Ukraine and began actively producing them.

A similar situation could happen with sea surface drones, which the Ukrainian military uses to successfully attack enemy targets. In particular, the Crimean bridge and two warships – the frigate “Admiral Makarov” and the minesweeper “Ivan Golubets”.

“Dandelion”

Russian remote the controlled boat has a range of up to 200 kilometers, a maximum speed of up to 80 kilometers per hour, a payload of up to 600 kilograms, a warhead with TNT or other “special cargo”.

The occupiers have a powerful military-industrial complex (military industrial complex), so they are looking for different approaches to effectively implement it.

They are trying to develop and supply this type of weaponry to their armed forces. We need to study the countermeasures situation, and also continue to improve drones,” noted the retired lieutenant general.

Russians are chasing global trend

Igor Romanenko explained that the global approach in the work of the military-industrial and scientific-military complexes regarding not only scaling, but also the development of new species is characteristically spreading.

Recall that earlier a journalist from The Times visited a secret GUR facility – it is said about a secret base on the Dnieper, hiding a new Ukrainian fleet of naval drones.

The commander of the unmanned fleet, call sign “13”, said he holed the most advanced Russian warships, sinking two targets off the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea on November 10.

What is known about the production of “Dandelion”

• The Russian Ministry of Defense ordered sea drones from the Russian industrial company KMZ, which has two different production profiles at once – small boats for Russian law enforcement agencies and special equipment for the nuclear industry. (“high-speed unmanned carrier boat”), the occupiers can use an inertial system with correction based on GPS signals, similar to the Shahed-type attack drone. In this case, it is possible to use drones-relay communication. naval kamikaze drones and are trying to use them for their own developments. Certain signs of the influence of such “reengineering” on the Dandelion BBKN can already be seen, at least in terms of appearance.