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On the night of May 19, 2024, the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit the Russian missile ship "Cyclone" of project 22800 in Sevastopol.
The Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with their comrades, continue to bring our Victory closer.
Public Relations Service of the Command of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
If Ukraine ends up significantly decimating the Russian fleet currently in the Black Sea, it exposes the occupied territories for attacks.
Not that Ukraine is going to take back any land this way but the attack surface is way greater than before and Russia has to either move essential assets far from the coast or they have to move resources from the existing front line to new areas. There is nothing for Russia to gain by diverting resources to the coastal lines since they will either just be able to hold their positions or lose ground. They can never advance.
Of course it all comes down to what resources Ukraine gets their hands on in the coming months and while all of the above looks promising, the reality is significantly darker.
A good day for Ukraine!
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Get fucked, Russia.
Beautiful. Always good to see those imperial warships sink, but that fact that this will stop them from launching cruise missiles is incredible.
Can you not launch cruise missles from land?
Yeah you absolutely can. And from air. The biggest benefit is probably that this limits the number of angles into Ukraine russia can launch missiles from, which makes air defense easier.
@NotMyOldRedditName @fuckingkangaroos that is a question I asked myself as well. But then it would be the like the famous US nuclear 'cruise missile' (from the @FRHoffmann1 header). If you saw these latest French turbo jet drones the line blurs imo. I think the US tomahawk can be land based. But an answer from a not armchair military guy would be great.
@NotMyOldRedditName @fuckingkangaroos (my gut says it has something to do with tactical positioning of the weapon system... Cruise missiles are slow in comparison to ballistic missiles and if you could preposition in minutes in a fighter jet you could outrun Enemy ad). A guess.
It's so new, it's not even on this list from 2016 (it was finished 2018)
What does them being circled signify?
Damaged but not sunk
Thanks. Work in progress, we'll call it
Wait is that 3 ships in the last weekish?
I think so?! Seems to be a trend!
So does it mean that Russia won't be able to launch missiles from the Black Sea anymore? That may be a godsent to shuffle around air defenses elsewhere.
Russian bombers can still launch missiles from the Black Sea, but this reduces the number of cruise missiles they can use in an attack by 8.
But submarines can launch cruise missiles CANT they?
And Ukraine just turned this into a submarine.