EXPENDABLE UNDERWATER "SUB SEA BABY" DRONES SHIFT THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN NATO AND RUSSI
The successful Ukrainian attack on Russia's submarine is great news in itself, as Ukraine weakens the Russian military machine and demonstrates Ukraine's winning potential.
But there is a less apparent reason for optimism: Ukraine developed a weapon that NATO desperately needs to counter Russia's secret geophysical/weather underwater war, in the midst of which the West suddenly found itself unable to counter Putin's efforts.
The West has various unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) programs; they do not have an analog to Ukraine's specifically developed, expendable "Sub Sea Baby" underwater drones used for direct offensive strikes on enemy naval vessels and infrastructure. Western UUV efforts have historically focused on different missions - monitoring, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, minesweeping/mine countermeasures, but not direct attacks.
