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Ukrainian intelligence naval drone kills five Russian divers trying to lift it
(www.pravda.com.ua)
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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Maybe it has a sort of antihandling device just for this purpose
Maybe it didn't even lose contact.
Wouldn't be a surprise to avoid capture of tech, but maybe it was just an accident due to damage. A small explosion underwater (lithium batteries and fuel?) can be deadly enough. Maybe they're designed to self destruct but this one failed until it got handled (wouldn't you want it to destruct as soon as certain variables were exceeded?)
ukrainian drones already washed out on shore once when musk shut off starlink during one of first crimea raids, i'm sure they account for loss of signal now
I can see something like if it rolls over and can't right itself would be good reason to self detonate. Or maybe if it reaches a certain altitude
rolls over, gets taken out of the water, loses connection for some long time, gps indicates that it's on land, all of these suggest future reverse engineering and can be prevented easily