Quote: "There is acute dissatisfaction among the personnel of the Russian fleet based in Novorossiysk over the senseless ‘meat-grinder’ orders from their command to retrieve the Ukrainian naval drone, which led to the elimination of the elite group."

I was wondering how it killed them.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Yeah I was hoping for something more James Bond. Like launching electrical probes like a tazer, or spinning blades or something. But this works too.

Now I wonder how intentional it was. If it had lost radio contact, that seems like somewhat dangerous default behavior.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Maybe it has a sort of antihandling device just for this purpose

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Maybe it didn't even lose contact.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

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

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