Ukraine hits Russian submarine with underwater drones. Sub Sea Baby drones attacked Russia’s Novorossiysk naval base and disabled a Project 636.3 Kilo-class submarine carrying Kalibr cruise missiles. Moscow denied the strike caused any damage. Footage showed a powerful explosion erupting from the water at a pier near where a submarine and other vessels were docked.
NOVOROSSIYSK DECEMBER 15: Ukraine hits Russian submarine with underwater drones for the first time. Ukraine’s Security Service said its underwater Sub Sea Baby drones attacked Russia’s Novorossiysk naval base and disabled a Project 636.3 Kilo-class submarine carrying Kalibr cruise missiles. Moscow denied the strike caused any damage.
The Sub Sea Baby underwater drones blew up a Russian submarine 636.3 “Varshavyanka”, known as the Kilo class according to its NATO reporting name. The submarine, worth up to €340 million, sustained critical damage and “was effectively put out of action,” the SBU stated.
The attack with Ukrainian-made “Sub Sea Baby” drones hit the submarine in the port of Novorossiysk where Russia has rebased many of its Black Sea naval vessels to put them out of reach of Ukrainian strikes, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.
Footage published by the SBU showed a powerful explosion erupting from the water at a pier near where a submarine and other vessels were docked. Reuters confirmed the location of the video using the port’s layout and piers.
Alexander Kamyshin, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wrote on X that it was the first time in history that an underwater drone had neutralised a submarine, a claim rejected outright by Russia’s Black Sea Fleet hours later.
