Russia is going down in history as the only country to lose a naval war against a country with no navy.
We didn’t lose a war with them, but the Barbary Pirates were giving the US trouble before we had a Navy… I also wouldn’t call the first war we had with them entirely successful, but we certainly didn’t lose it.
Not their first time I believe, they lost their navy before getting to who they needed to fight, whom iirc rescued them instead because they felt so sorry for them
The US spent trillions of dollars over decades to do what the Ukrainians have done with some fancy remote controlled toys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 keeps amusing me.
The main goals of a live wargame like this are to 1) learn lessons, and to 2) get everyone simulated combat experience. This means you need to run as many scenarios as possible and to make sure every unit gets to participate.
If Red team sinks all the landing ships on round one, does that mean your infantry doesn’t get to war game and learn lessons (after all, the infantry are all ‘in lifeboats’)? Fuck no. You take extensive notes on what red team did, restart the war game, but this time mandate the infantry land. It would be a colossal waste to not learn lessons in your infantry unit or to not allow them to accumulate simulated combat experience simply because their boats sank in the first round.
Nice to meet you, General Peter Pace 🫡
Good job Ukraine!
I’m no naval expert, but in 2025, a $400 million dollar sub sounds like something ordered from Wish.
Real OceanGate vibes.
So it’s 2 subs now… against a country without ships
This might be a warning against Russia from using their submarines again Ukrainian shipping in retaliation to Ukraine’s strikes on shadow fleet vessels.
So far they’ve used an Iskander but that’s probably uneconomical. Now it might be even scarier for a Russian sub to sail around in the Black Sea, of which I think only 3 can be operational.
Ahh admiral, this is a very nice submarine you’ve got here. Very… pretty. It would be a shame if something were to… happen to it.
Oopsie poopsie subbie bloopsie
“What sick man sent BABIES to fight me?!”
“Is this a sub for ants?!”
Idk why I expected a picture of the drone, but I was disappointed.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
Why are we calling torpedos “drones”?
It’s a crewless, marine weapons platform.
