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World’s First Naval Drone Duel Results In Ukrainian Success
Ukraine said HUR spotted the target before the Sargan-3000 used a 12.7mm turret to destroy a Russian drone boat, officials said.
- The Ukrainian Navy claimed that a Sargan-3000 uncrewed surface vessel destroyed a Russian drone boat in the Black Sea, describing the engagement as the first battle in history between two uncrewed naval vessels.
- Before the Sargan-3000 closed in, Defense Intelligence Directorate partners identified the target, enabling the drone to destroy the Russian craft using a remote-controlled 12.7mm machine gun turret known as the Protector RWS.
- Earlier in the war, similar Ukrainian sea drones sank the missile corvette Ivanovets and the landing ship Caesar Kunikov, a campaign that pushed much of the Black Sea Fleet away from Crimea toward Novorossiysk.
- Unlike a September 8, 2026 incident near Snake Island where forces destroyed a Russian KAMA-type vessel using an aerial drone's guided munition, this engagement involved direct boat-to-boat combat.
- Russia has begun building its own naval drones in response to Ukrainian successes, while the Ukrainian Navy previously asserted that one of its drones shot down a Russian Su-30 fighter jet in May 2025.
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The Ukrainian Sargan 3000 operates as a floating combat platform from which machine guns and missiles are remotely fired.Ukraine has begun to use more and more maritime drones in its operations in the Black Sea and Azov Sea.
·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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An unmanned Ukrainian surface ship destroyed a Russian naval drone in the Black Sea, in what the Ukrainian Navy describes as "the first naval battle in history between two unmanned vessels," Kyiv Independent reports.
·Bucharest, Romania
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Unmanned drones are not only used for attacks from the air. The Black Sea is now probably the scene of an unusual battle on the high seas.
·Berlin, Germany
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The Ukrainian Sargan 3000 and the Russian MBEK competed against each other.
·Helsinki, Finland
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