On May 23, 2026, a swarm of Ukrainian FP-1 drones flew fifty kilometers across the Black Sea at wave-top height and struck the Russian frigate Pytlivy inside Novorossiysk — the last harbor where Russia's Black Sea Fleet can still hide. This video is a complete tactical breakdown of how modern drone warfare beats a layered air defense network: GPS spoofing and jamming defeated by inertial navigation, S-400 missiles that can't separate a low-flying drone from the sea beneath it, a Pantsir-S1 gun system outmaneuvered by a two-altitude swarm, and Russia's newest counter-drone weapon — blue laser dazzlers built to blind drone cameras — beaten by a thermal seeker reading a different part of the spectrum entirely.
We reconstruct the full twenty-minute attack in real time: the radar horizon problem, cost-exchange warfare pitting $55,000 drones against million-dollar interceptors, electronic warfare over the harbor, and why the last Krivak II frigate on Earth carried no close-in weapon system to save her. From drone swarm tactics to naval air defense failures, this is modern military analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war at sea — and a preview of what every navy on the planet is about to face. Subscribe for more modern naval warfare breakdowns.
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