Among the exhibitors at Turkey’s showpiece international arms fair in Istanbul last week was SpetsTechnoExport – a small, state-owned Ukrainian defence manufacturer with a realistic claim to be pushing back the global boundaries of naval warfare.
Among the exhibitors at Turkey’s showpiece international arms fair in Istanbul last week was SpetsTechnoExport – a small, state-owned Ukrainian defence manufacturer with a realistic claim to be pushing back the global boundaries of naval warfare.
The west will develop these drones to some extent as they have a huge range advantage over torpedos. Some of the Russian ships targeted have been over 300KM from the Ukrainian coast.
The range advantage is there for Ukraine because they don’t have any mobile launch platform that they could bring in closer, but a few hundred kilometers is just about the distance they need to reach the enemy. For the West their naval would be either thousands of kilometers away or in range of their weapons (including anti ship missiles, which have similar range).