The Future of Drone Tech: Naval Strategies || July 10, 2026
Ukraine can strike anywhere across the Black Sea thanks to its Sea Baby naval drones, and since jamming is less effective in open water, Ukraine can remotely guide them toward targets.
Take a shadow fleet vessel, for example. Ukraine can use satellite and transponder data to determine targets and then strike the engines and propulsion systems of these ships. With few effective counters, Russia's ability to protect shipping in the Black Sea is steadily eroding.
If this current trend continues, Russian exports of all kinds, including oil, grain, fertilizer, timber, and more, could be lost.
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What do you think about this?
Your info is becoming much less relevant and cutting edge in time terms!
Thank you for using the metric system
They have cut supplies to Crimea. Ruzzia claiming Crimea is like Canada claiming Florida.
Thank you Peter. Have a nice weekend.
With Ukraine bottling and destroying most of Russia's commodities, when will the oligarchs finally half the war or remove Putin? I am anxious for a Zeihan prediction.
I hope with all my soul that these naval drones are in fact called “sea babies”
Now all we need to do is wait for the Iranians to develop this technology, easy enough, then they will be able to close down both the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman, and a good chunk of the Arabian Sea.
Trade works both ways and both ways can be blocked.
where's the forest ?
Certainly good news for the Ukrainians although probably bad news for everyone else… We’re already going into a massive Commodities crisis thanks to the Trump/Epstein class war on Iran. Trump just recently closed down oil and fertilizer exports out of the Persian gulf again… We really have to get that stuff flowing.
Great opportunity for capitalism to do its thing and flash-build some fertilizer plants here and there.
This is the template for anyone that wants to run area denial over sea lanes anywhere in the world. bye Bye World trade - it was good times when you were here but guess all parties have to end at some point.
The US navel fleet against drone warfare looks to be similar to the British dressed up in red and lining up to fight us during the revolutionary war. The technology has literally flown or motored by us. Someone wake up Trump and tell him he doesn’t have the cards to project power anymore!
Yes and no. Drone weapons are the top tier weaponry now. But the old stuff works against an enemy that is not up to date. Tanks might work peachy keen in Aftica. Artilery might work well in the ME. Etc. However, you are right that battleships and carriers do seem prone to drone and robot attack at the moment if the enemy has drones. One area that seems to be lagging everywhere is drone defense weaponry. Actually, most of them are pretty flimsy and it doesn't take much power to kill them. The trick is finding, tracking and hitting them on the fly. That's not easy at all.
Slava Ukrani! It seems the Russian top down, cold war military doctrine just can't keep up no matter how much meat they feed the system. The current direction is a decided LOSS for Russia, maybe soon. Likely, the army will simply quit and go home. Or, maybe not, because Russians seem to have a cultural inbred ability to resist vast suffering, pain and misery. Indeed, Russians love misery, it seems. But, that's not a winning quality in the long run. Also, the USA and most of the rest of the world seems asleep at the wheel. Drone robot war is in, all the other stuff of prior centuries is out.
So sad for Russia. So very sad... And just when the price of oil was dropping...
Started at Snake Island, now we’re here.