Bayonet underwater drone (UUV) with tracks can crawl out of the sea. Quite a useful capability…
A few other tracked submarines /UUVs to briefly mentions.
Firstly, in World War Two German engineers built a tracked midget sub. The idea was to launch /recover itself from a slipway rather than drive along the bottom of the seabed
During the Cold War, the #USNavy had the NR-1 spy sub which could drive along the bottom. Wheels not tracks though.
There were several reports of strange tracks on the seabed in Sweden /Norway during the Cold War.
Thread 1/n Step by step, the war in the Black Sea, month of November 2023 (1 year ago). From my tracker
#OSINT
Nov 4:
#Russian
Pr.22800 Karakurt class corvette 'Askold' struck by Ukrainian missiles at shipyard in Kerch. hisutton.com/Timeline-2022-…
Nov 10 2023: Liberian flagged merchant ship KMAX Ruler hit by Russian AS-17 KTYPTON (Kh-31) anti-radiation missile in port of Odesa
Nov 10 2023:
#Ukrainian maritime drones (USVs) operated by GUR hit two Russian Navy landing craft in Chornomors'ke, northern Crimea. 1 x Pr.11770 Serna Class 1 x Pr.1176 Ondatra Class
Always an interesting topic, we all know about inflatable fake tanks, but it can happen with ships too.
Firstly, fake ships before D-Day:
During WW2 the royal Navy converted some fleet tenders to resemble battleships and a carrier, with the idea being to deceive German Luftwaffe reconnaissance flights.
Before/ after (might be exact same ship, but you get the idea)
The old battleship HMS Centurion was also remodeled to appear as the newer ship HMS
Anson
Snake island had been subject to air strikes but Ukraine had also started using MLRS from barges at sea and it was in range of new 155mm artillery being delivered by West, especially the French Caesar system
In July 2022, faced with threat of Ukraine’s Neptune anti-ship missiles, and western supplies Harpoons (notably Denmark), Russian navy largely withdraw from western side of northern Black Sea. This is a significant change in the balance.
I don't normally post about aircraft, but here are 5 awesome and usual loadouts from the Cold War which really interest me from a design perspective.
In descending order of awesomeness
5. A-5 Vigilante US Navy bomber with nuclear bomb up backside
4. English Electric Lightning. Awesome fighter, could carry ferry tanks in the overwing position. Hard to find photos of this, but it could also carry twin SNEB rocket pods above each with, with fuel tanks behind them (!).
3. Ilyushin Il-102, which lost out to the now-famous Su-25 FROGFOOT. Aside from rad lines and rear-facing aft cockpit, check out the tail gun!
#Ukrainian strike on #Russian Navy base at Sevastopol in Crimea appears to have damaged, possibly seriously (TBC), the submarine support ship Kommuna (ref ) hisutton.com/Russian-Navy-K…
Video
Kommuna gets a degree of sympathy because she is an ancient and beautiful ship, 112 years old(!).
But objectively she is a legitimate target and provides Russian navy with valuable capabilities. She often participates in submarine trials and can conduct seabed warfare