{"id":48178,"date":"2025-09-01T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=48178"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:46:26","slug":"ukraine-first-overwater-attack-by-a-russian-seed-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/ukraine-erster-ueberwasserangriff-einer-russischen-seedrohne\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: First overwater attack by a Russian naval drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Russian drone attack on Ukrainian naval unit<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>For the first time in the chronology of the war in Ukraine, the Kiev Navy was attacked and heavily hit by a Russian surface drone (similar to the Ukrainian Magura V) on 28 August 2025. The incident occurred at night in the delta of the Danube estuary. An analysis identifies this location around 30 kilometres upstream (around 3 kilometres west of Wylkowe) on the Ukrainian side of the Danube - the NATO border with Romania runs just a few metres away in the middle of the river!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48180\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48180\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ukr-agi-simferopol-screenshot-rus-drone-boat-attack-rus_som25-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"AGI &quot;Simferopol&quot;, drone camera. Photo: Russian media\" width=\"453\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ukr-agi-simferopol-screenshot-rus-drone-boat-attack-rus_som25-300x169.jpeg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ukr-agi-simferopol-screenshot-rus-drone-boat-attack-rus_som25-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ukr-agi-simferopol-screenshot-rus-drone-boat-attack-rus_som25-768x432.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ukr-agi-simferopol-screenshot-rus-drone-boat-attack-rus_som25-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ukr-agi-simferopol-screenshot-rus-drone-boat-attack-rus_som25.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AGI \"Simferopol\", drone camera. Photo: Russian media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The medium-sized reconnaissance ship \"Simferopol\" (Project Laguna, 55 metres, 1,200 tonnes), built in Kiev according to the plans of the trawler type 502EM and only commissioned in 2021, was supposedly safely anchored there, probably without any further protective measures, when it was attacked and severely damaged. Although the majority of the up to 30 crew members - some injured - were brought to safety, two were killed and others are missing. According to Russian reports, the \"Simferopol\" sank, which Ukraine denies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The attack was recorded by the drone camera and also observed by a flying Russian drone over Ukrainian coastal territory; the video footage was posted online. The Russian Navy had practised these procedures during the major global manoeuvre \"July Storm\" immediately before the cancelled Navy Day parade (Saint Petersburg) at the end of July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian video of the drones:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5NYG9AZ-35o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">Watch video<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Ukrainian drone attack in the Sea of Azov<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Russian attack was preceded by a Ukrainian drone attack on a Buyan-M FK corvette in the Sea of Azov. This attack was coordinated with a first drone against the sensors and a second drone directly against the superstructure. This is said to have damaged the ship and forced it to withdraw from its patrol mission, or possibly even to abort a Kalibr attack against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18725\" style=\"width: 798px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18725\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rus-ff-562-fsm-buyan2-zeleniy_dol-nitz19-e1756741501457-300x106.jpg\" alt=\"Small combat corvette &quot;Zeleniy Dol&quot; of the Buyan-M class. Photo: Michael Nitz\" width=\"798\" height=\"282\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small combat corvette \"Zeleniy Dol\" of the Buyan-M class. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Video of the FPV drones (first person view) from suchomimus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\" https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z6XFtH1cL-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">Watch video<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The following video shows how a Kalibr rocket launch works:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iWPiuCJZCos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">Watch video<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48182\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48182\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-poseidon_an-telegram@bomber_fighter2-e1756741608987-300x106.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-poseidon_an-telegram@bomber_fighter2-e1756741608987-300x106.jpeg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-poseidon_an-telegram@bomber_fighter2-e1756741608987-1024x363.jpeg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-poseidon_an-telegram@bomber_fighter2-e1756741608987-768x272.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-poseidon_an-telegram@bomber_fighter2-e1756741608987.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">P-8A Poseidon with deployed sensor. Photo: telegram\/bomber_fighter (rus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><strong>Maritime surveillance Black Sea<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The day before, a US Navy P-8A Poseidon coming from Sicily (NAS Sigonella) and equipped with the AN\/APS-154 advanced airborne sensor had flown a reconnaissance mission across the Black Sea lasting several hours. For the first time, it was tracked down by a Russian Sukhoi interceptor, accompanied and documented with the sensor folded down.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Consequences<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>With all the unanswered questions about the use of this Russian drone right next to the border with NATO partners, far in the western part of the Black Sea, some staffs will have to reorient themselves with regard to maritime surveillance, the protection of civilian freight traffic and swarm attacks - not only in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48181\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48181\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-an_aps154-poseidon-xarcher83able25-e1756741685103-300x88.jpeg\" alt=\"P-8A Poseidon with AAS AN\/APS154. Photo: x\/archer83able\" width=\"940\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-an_aps154-poseidon-xarcher83able25-e1756741685103-300x88.jpeg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-an_aps154-poseidon-xarcher83able25-e1756741685103-768x225.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/usa-air-vp-an_aps154-poseidon-xarcher83able25-e1756741685103.jpeg 774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">P-8A Poseidon with AAS AN\/APS154. Photo: x\/archer83able<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russischer Drohnenangriff auf ukrainische Marineeinheit Erstmals in der Chronologie des Ukraine-Krieges ist die Kiewer Marine am 28. August 2025 von einer russischen \u00dcberwasserdrohne (\u00e4hnlich der ukrainischen Magura V) angegriffen und schwer getroffen worden. Ereignet hat sich der Vorfall nachts im M\u00fcndungsdelta der Donau. Eine Auswertung identifiziert diese Stelle etwa 30 Kilometer flussaufw\u00e4rts (etwa 3 Kilometer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,42,50],"tags":[10100,3805,7288,10466,3482,10467,10468,10469,2941,1092,3114,10470,2823],"class_list":["post-48178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","tag-agi","tag-aufklaerungsschiff","tag-buyan-m","tag-donau-delta","tag-drohnenangriff","tag-july-storm","tag-nato-gebiet","tag-raketenkorvette","tag-rumaenien","tag-schwarzes-meer","tag-seeraumueberwachung","tag-simferopol","tag-ukraine-krieg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48940,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48178\/revisions\/48940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}