Mad Max: Beyond Sovietdome

Never underestimate the Ukrainian Navy

Love the fact that he Ukrainians are making weapon memes into real things.

Like a shark with a frickin' laser beam on its head!

Ukraine showing ingenuity as always

Very interesting development from Ukraine. Its a shock weapon, and not a bad idea!

0:28 the actual sound of the rockets firing at once.

oil/gas terminals hang out around water

Ivan "I must be really drunk because it looks like there's a GRAD floating on the river" 5 minutes later 🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆

Using the Grad lets them run a proof of concept before using Brimstone.

It means that Ukraine can fire the grad outside a port. As there will be many targets inside the port, inaccuracy may score a few direct hits of different boats or buildings

I like that the Captain and Helmsman are safe, miles away, maybe having pizza and beer or a cupa...

Ive never realized that the sound of Grad launching is "bla la la la la" :D.

Naval gunfire generally in the WW2 era worked in heavy seas not by gyro-stabilization stabilizing but by firing the guns when they were correctly aligned to a reference gyro as the ship pitched anhd rolled. A firing circuit took into account all of the delays involved. This is how battleships Bismark, Hood, HMS Prince of Wales etc worked. Stabilization, at least in those days, was too difficult to make accurate enough. In fact many ships didn't even have a gyro but a sailor who tracked the horizon. -These naval drones will have a chip with pendulating or vibrating beam gyros and tilt meters. The rockets will be fired at the right instant.

I think they are developing the Sea Babies to hit land targets due to the scarcity of ships to use them against. How did that happen? 🙂

Whether they are accurate or not the threat of these to any area in range of their sea operations is massive. Cannot see the Russians taking a risk on their accuracy. It’s a bit like suppressing fire in close combat, it has an effect on the enemy even if it’s not hitting anyone.

I am amazed by the constant innovations!

Necessity is the mother of invention.

If the rockets would be fired one by one, the boat would rock around messing up the rocket trajectory. Clever Ukrainians!

I would say a key benefit would be that they can be reused!

Welcome to the Riverine Technical.

Next step: Stabilize the Launcher and add GPS+INS guidance

Ruzzia: Stop! You are not suppposed to do that!

No more waiting your turn at the boat launch

A cool idea is for the sea baby to carry drone(s). Making it an aircraft carrier ;) - this would give the Sea Baby the ability to do surveillance, and launch drone strikes.

These are brilliant for harassing Kinborne Spit russian forces. They can probably launch day or night. I think it is a foggy area as well.

Where I live we have a saying; It's not stupid if it works

Mount Penguins on the drones! its an older Anti ship missile with decent range. In US it was called the AGM-119

ConGRADulations guys.

Yes only a short time before guided missiles are used.

They should call it the Sea Bastard. Thanks for the excellent content as usual.

U.S. rocket-firing landing ship, WWII: USS LSM(R)-190 was a US Navy LSM(R)-188-class Landing Ship Medium (Rocket). She was built at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina and was commissioned on 21 November 1944.

Water is also good for absorbing recoil, so it won't flip the drone

Ingenuity at it's best , thanks Sucho,👍👍👍

Interesting development.

You are probably right about the "rocking" part. typically on a land vehicle, each launch would rock the firing truck on its springs, but because the springs are absorbing energy, the rocking would subside over 1-2 seconds. There is probably some sensor on the vehicle that senses that motion and waits for the stabilization before launching the next rocket. On a boat you cannot do that, because the boat would not return to the same exact launch range. So I am guessing there are sensors that sense the current angles, and at some point, when the rockets are pointing correctly, all will be fired at once. If you were to wait on a boat until everything aligns again, you might need to wait for a few minutes between every launch

It's still better than a broadside from, Captain Pugwash.

Wooo naval barrage

Loitering Marine drone can fire surface to air manpad rockets. These can be a part of offensive ops on the Dinipro at Kherson.

And they can even get the Sea Baby back!

Thank you for another excellent video!

These could be bait to bring in the choppers to shoot at them and then get hit in turn by a different boat mounted with anti air

Suchomimus is Top 💪👍🙏🤘

It is amazing how war can accelerate the evolution of weapons. It is entirely logical that aquatic drones would eventually gain the ability to fire on targets from a distance. What we see here is a work in progress rather than the final iteration. Further development will occur over time.

Thank you, Suchomimus, I hope, we will see more soon 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

if it fired intermittently the drone would absolutely start spinning

Next thing you know, these sea drones are fitted with magnetic anomaly sensors and torpedo to hunt the Black Sea Fleet submarines.

I would imagine these are as accurate as trying to hit a treble-twenty with a Müller rice pudding.

Regarding CEP, or Circular Error Probability: If the CEP is 100m for a given weapon system at a given range, it means that out of 100 projectiles/missiles fired, 50 of them land within a circle of 100m diameter. However, this _does not mean_ that the other half lands within a circle twice the size. This depends on how many ourliers a system exhibits. If out of those 100 there are, say, 10 that are wildly of the mark, you can have 50 within a 100m circle but all 100 impacts cover a much much larger circle.

Bit of a wide spread to the ordinance. Looking forward to v2.0 of this.

The missile equipped Sea Baby drones show how resourceful the Ukrainians are with what they’ve got. I can imagine that as part of a harbor or ship attack they deploy two or three of these with the standard attack drones to suppress any fire coming from a ship’s guns, thus improving chances of a successful sinking. It will be interesting to see how these things perform in the near future.

I would love to see a broadside against a ship! At the ~5° elevation shown, that might be about 200 meters away.

BADASS!!!!!!!!!

sea babies can be stable just to shoot using retractable floaters on both sides... they can deploy[floats], aim, shoot, retract[floats], and go...

Glory to Ukraine! Слава Україні!

So many innovations in this war by Ukraine.

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I feel very strongly that Admiral Fluckey would be proud

There is no way this is being used as a water borne grad artillery system. They're going to fire at relatively point blank into shore targets, such as ports, fuel containers and harbor buildings, maybe 1KM or so in range. Its a low cost way to deliver 18 - 24 rockets with enough accuracy to hit large targets and scoot away quickly. Even if many of the attacks miss, it forces the fascists to deploy ships back into range of Storm Shadow, ATACAMS and anti-ship drones. I doubt Ukraine would use these on targets too far inland, as their inaccuracy would lead to high civilian casualties.

There are countless targets for such a drone, given the long coastlines of Crimea and the major rivers in Ukraine, and the Sebastopol and Black Sea ports and even the Russian defensive positions for the Kerch bridge (such as SAM sites, barracks, etc,_ could be within range of these, despite their inaccuracy.. One should not discount the positive effect of harassment weapons. They can disrupt normal operations, require counter measures such as more patrol boats, cause displacement of some resources and people, and diminish morale of the targeted troops.

This could also be used against harbours, or the Kerch bridge. Basically any target above a certain size. And the elevated suspension spans of the bridge are damned large. May be worth a try, at least with a group of sea baby drones.

Guided rockets like Brimstone or GLMRS is the way forward! Can you imagine where long range guided rockets could hit if Seababy traveled up rivers and coastline in patrols every night? Holy Gamole, Batman!!!

Came for the information, stayed for the bluhbluhblrhgb!! Cheers!

How about using Brimstones instead, they are semi autonomous and can select multiple targets….. or how about a couple of himars……. Preprogramme for some critical infrastructure on an airbase….. say the fuel storage, incoming electrical supply, control tower, maintenance crew facilities, pilot ready room…..

🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦. ✌🏼

If you got a boat a river is a road.

As always great presentation. Those Ukrainians are very resourceful bar stewards!

Thank you for the update.

Thank you good sir

0:26 " _I suspect this is so the rockets can be launched...... blubalubalubalubalella_ " 🤪🤭🤣

So since Ukraine now has missile destroyers I think we can stop calling it a country without a navy.

reminds me of the improvised rocket launchers the insurgents used against us in Iraq.

Grad size shotgun... ingenuity at it's finest😎

The US Navy used mortars fired from landing craft, small craft usually used to land troupes, with good accuracy.

Slick

Thank you!

Thanks Sucho...

Thank You, Sucho

Brimstone might be more effective

SeaBaby with a TOW missile? Hell yeah!

Also, with all.being fired at once they will all.land in the same grid square, roughly(that spread is huge..). Versus one at a time the rockets would land in a rough line.

The wide spread is intentional. It is so the rockets won't interfere with or even hit each other in flight when fired simultaneously. Rockets with active control could be programmed to spread out, then fly parallel to each other at a close, but safe distance.

With each passing day we're headed closer to Star Wars prequel territory. Drones & robots duking it out.

Using grad rockets to clear heavily vegetated islands in the lower Dnipro makes a lot of sense.

Turtle tanks and rocket launcher drone boats **max mad intensifies**

At first I was skeptical, but using them just as a launch platform is kinda smart

Next will be the carrier babies full with AI-kamikaze drones

They fire at the same time to help accuracy. The computer on the boat determines the firing event

Thank you for posting this update

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Slava Ukraini !!!

Sea Baby with ,, Galliope " device ; smart idea !

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The RC Navy.

HIMARs on a dinghy! 🤣

I hope they’re working on drone submarines with torpedo launch capabilities!

they should integrate fpv drones into those marine drones and route the video through the marine drones data link. surely you'd get a few packed into one of them. then you'd have 10km from the coastline covered with precision fires and you could send the marine drones home again afterwards for re use

Originally the Grad Batteries were six launchers in a fairly close spaced line not just one or two launchers. From these boats I would expect decent accuracy at much closer ranges.

They should consider mounting a spring loaded box with a remotely activated lid that contains an FPV drone or two, to engage any helicopters or ship mounted machine guns when they arrive on target!