The attack tactics on the Russian warship “Caesar Kunikov” are based on World War II, says a Ukrainian security expert. Ukraine adapted them for their sea drones.
Kiev – Ukraine has attacked and disabled five Russian warships since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in the Black Sea. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has now been largely pushed out of the western part of the sea. On Wednesday, the Ukrainian secret service reported the sinking of the “Caesar Kunikov” on the south coast of the annexed Crimean peninsula.
The Ukrainians hit the landing ship not far from the city of Alupka with “Magura V5” sea drones, said the HUR military intelligence service in Kiev. He released a video showing several sea drones loaded with explosives heading towards the Russian warship and exploding. The nighttime sinking of the landing ship was inspired by military history, said Ivan Stupak, a former officer in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Newsweek.
Ukraine sinks Russian warship off Crimea – sea drones attack the “Caesar Kunikov”.
According to Ivan Stupak, who works as an advisor to the National Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament during the Ukraine War, said: “The wolf pack tactic was a World War II tactic in the Atlantic that used numerical superiority to launch a massive U.S. attack -Boots on an enemy ship,” said Stupak. With the end of the Second World War, the use of this tactic stopped – since the Russian war of aggression, Ukraine has been using this swarm tactic for its sea drones.
During the attack on the “Caesar Kunikov” on Wednesday, nighttime video footage shows several sea drones loaded with explosives heading towards the Russian warship and exploding. The ship is said to have sunk by now. The extent of the damage could not initially be independently verified. So far there has been no reaction from the Russian side. In the morning, the Russian Ministry of Defense only reported six Ukrainian drones that were allegedly successfully shot down over the Black Sea that night.
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This is how the “wolf pack tactics” of the German Navy worked in World War II
The wolf pack tactic was a key strategy in German submarine warfare in World War II. Wehrmacht submarine groups operated together rather than individually to attack Allied merchant ships and convoys. The tactic was aimed at isolating merchant ships from their guards and weakening the effectiveness of the convoy. The “wolf pack tactic” was used for the first time in October 1939 – German submarines had already carried out similar maneuvers during the First World War.
Through coordinated attacks, the German submarines were able to overwhelm the Allied defenses and inflict significant casualties. The attacks themselves mostly took place at night and over water, as the submarines were difficult to see for the convoy guards at that time of day – there was no radar at that time.
The “wolf pack tactic” was particularly effective in the early years of the war, when Allied anti-submarine defense was not yet so advanced. Over the course of the war, the Allies developed counter-strategies such as improved escort tactics and technological innovations to curb the threat from submarines. They were also able to decipher the Wehrmacht’s Enigma codes.