there Russia yesterday lost its most important weapon in the Black Sea: the missile cruiser Moscow It is the largest military ship ever sunk since World War II. Taller than Argentine General Belgrano, destroyed by the British Navy during the Falklands Conflict in 1982.
Officially, according to the Kremlin, the accident resulted from a fire that broke out on board and the ship sank while being towed. Out ofUkraine instead they call for a military attack and victory. But how did they manage to hit such a technologically advanced and armed cruiser?
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War expert Chris Owen provides a reading that the Ukrainian army used a Bayraktar TB2 drone to “deflect” the ship’s radars in order to hit the cruiser from the side. UAVs are widely used for surveillance of fleet movements and also for attacks. According to the expert, the Moskva radar would have a field of view of only 180 degrees, which is used to guide the S300 missiles.
Some thoughts on the apparent sinking of Russia’s Black Sea flagship Moskva: If confirmed, it will likely go down in history as one of the boldest successful attacks in modern naval history. / 1 pic.twitter.com/hWlLdbNMxP
ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) April 14, 2022
So the drone would take off shifting the focus of the defense systems and meanwhile a Neptune missile would be launched from the shore that would have hit the mark. To help them, the stormy seas that would have helped hide the attack. A train that has been studied in detail, so. Such missiles designed by Ukraine have only been available to the army since 2019. The attack on Moskva would be one of the first with this type of weapon.
The certainty of a military strategy will most likely never exist. What is certain is that the Moskva sank, putting Russia in extreme trouble in the Black Sea and forced to revise attack plans for the capture of Odessa, which became extremely complicated after this event.