A warship with swift contours and pyramid-shaped superstructures left the Portsmouth naval base - it was a British destroyer type 45 Daring. Contrary to the usual English bad weather, this time the sun was shining brightly in the sky, seagulls were flying through the air and screaming loudly. The newest destroyer was in full combat readiness, its radar stations probed the sky, from the water's edge to near space, its hydroacoustic station peered into the depths - no one could get close unnoticed.
In the universal launchers, stealthy LRASM anti-ship missiles (ASMs) purchased from the United States were waiting in the wings; the ship was protected from air attack by Aster anti-aircraft missiles. A bow 114-mm cannon, two 20-mm and two 30-mm rapid-fire automatic cannons provided close-in defense of the ship against surface and air targets.
In an unforeseen situation, the ship could hide behind a cloud of protective metallized smoke, dipole reflectors, heat traps and active jamming stations.
Close to their native shores, the ship's crew felt quite calm; the main problem was not to ram some civilian cargo ship - the ship traffic in the area was off scale. The ship's radars and sonar did not detect any threats moving in its direction.
Suddenly, the radar showed that eight objects were moving towards the destroyer, simultaneously from several sides, at a speed of about 50 knots, and the distance to them was already minimal - only a few hundred meters. Where did they come from? What were they? Did they pose a threat to the ship?
Apparently, the objects drifted in the water along the ship’s route, and at the moment when it was as close as possible to them, they began to move. Considering the nature and direction of their movement, there was no doubt - this was an attack.
Alarm signals blared, the ship's crew began to prepare to repel the attack. The distance was too short for anti-ship missiles. Rapid-firing automatic guns came to life, systems for setting up protective curtains threw out clouds of metallized smoke and dipole reflectors.
However, everything was in vain. The approaching uncrewed boats (UECs) were too small and their hulls were partially hidden under water. The destroyer's automatic cannons managed to stop six attacking BECs, and the remaining two managed to break through to its side.
Several powerful explosions were heard. Apparently, the warhead (CU) of the BEC-kamikaze was quite comparable to the anti-ship missile warhead. The blow hit almost one point in the center of the destroyer. A huge hole formed in the ship's hull, into which water poured, a fire raged in the ship's compartments above the waterline, and an oily stain spread across the water.
Very quickly the ship began to list, after which the command to evacuate was given. Not everyone managed to escape; almost two-thirds of the destroyer’s crew—more than a hundred people—sank along with the ship.
Reaction to aggression
Munich speech of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the war in Georgia on 08.08.08/2014/XNUMX, the coup d'etat in Ukraine in XNUMX and the annexation of Crimea to Russia, Russian support for the Donbass and Lugansk people's republics, and finally, the beginning of the Russian Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine - all this became a litmus test that clearly showed the depth of hatred of Western countries towards Russia and the Russian people (which, from the point of view of Westerners, includes all residents of the former USSR).
Before our eyes, the “dehumanization” of Russians is taking place, politicians in many Western countries are already openly talking about punishing all Russians, discriminatory laws are being adopted that allow the authorities of European Union countries to take away all property from Russian citizens, including personal belongings and clothing - something similar has already happened in 1914, when, with the outbreak of World War I, Russians were robbed, raped and killed en masse and with impunity in Germany. This was later repeated in 1941 on a much larger scale, only this time organized and under the control of government structures of Nazi Germany.
Now the UK and a number of other countries in Western and Eastern Europe are pursuing an anti-Russian policy particularly aggressively, including by supplying Ukraine with the latest weapons, providing information and intellectual support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The result of their actions are attacks on Russian infrastructure and facilities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (RF Armed Forces).
The blame for such terrorist attacks should be placed primarily not on Ukraine, but on Western countries
The problem is that we're on these beats in no way We don’t answer.
Yes - this statement is quite justified. This is fair for the reason that the Armed Forces of Ukraine/SBU/GUR are just a tool, and the head that controls the process is not in Ukraine. Therefore, the strikes that the Russian Armed Forces inflict on targets on the territory of Ukraine cannot be considered an adequate response to a covert attack by Western countries, primarily Great Britain and the United States.
But striking NATO countries will lead to the outbreak of a full-scale war, which will most likely end in an exchange of nuclear strikes?
But we are not starting a war, despite the fact that the blows are being delivered weapons USA, UK and other NATO countries, by specialists from NATO countries, using the intelligence, control and communications infrastructure of NATO countries? And the United States did not start World War III when we actually shot down their unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). But Iran generally does this without hesitation, and the United States just brushes it off and again plots against it, but does not directly attack, despite the fact that Iran does not have nuclear weapons.
Which of these can be concluded?
Yes, such that we have not yet even come close to the borders beyond which a global conflict with the use of nuclear weapons could begin. Especially if you approach this with the cynicism inherent in Western countries. It can be said with a high degree of confidence that the United States does not care at all about the countries of Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Of course, one can assume that Great Britain is of somewhat greater value to the United States, but it is unlikely to be much more valuable.
Uncontrollable
This is how one can characterize the fact that Western countries often do not control the technologies that they have created, despite all the restrictions they impose. The problem is that the more complex the technology, the more expensive it is. And the more expensive it is, the more difficult it is to recoup it, and the greater the number of products made using this technology must be sold to ensure its recoupment.
This is clearly seen in the example of the radio-electronic industry. The more complex the processor, memory chip or camera matrix, the higher its cost, the higher the percentage of defects in production. All this can be compensated only by huge production runs, millions - tens and hundreds of millions of products. And with such circulations, it is simply unrealistic to track them all: under any sanctions, whoever needs to buy them will buy them, albeit at a higher price - what did Karl Marx (quoting Thomas Dunning) say about capitalists and 300% of profits?
Now one of such technologies is satellite communications. SpaceX needs to capture the market with its Starlink network, others don’t want to lose the market either - China is breathing down their neck. This means that the market will be oversaturated, that supply will at some point exceed demand, and service providers will fight for customers, selling them their services, as Russian cellular operators did some time ago, when SIM cards were not just handed out by force.
Starlink equipment and services are quickly spreading across the planet; not only the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Western countries can use them
In turn, global or even regional high-speed satellite communications are one of the critical components that make it possible to create weapons systems that can operate at enormous distances from the launch point, systems that even the armed forces of many technologically advanced countries do not actually have.
And this opens up very interesting opportunities for us, after all, as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said, “The capitalists themselves will sell us the rope on which we will hang them.”
Strikes from the shadows
What is the key difference between the attacks of Ukrainian unmanned boats (BEC) on Russian infrastructure and Black Sea ships? fleet Russian Navy?
This is their actual anonymity.
If Ukrainian officials did not directly state that they were carrying out the attacks, how would we be able to prove it?
Russian objects were attacked by BEC of unknown origin, their components are American, British, Japanese, Chinese - too many countries to list, the American communication system is Starlink. They could resist any attacks, and the entire “civilized world community” would only agree with them. However, Ukraine is now like a radical Islamic group of 3,5 people: they would take responsibility even if an asteroid fell on Russia.
The reality is that the inability of Western countries to control the technologies and high-tech products they sell makes it possible to implement scenarios of striking them with virtually their own weapons.
This could be a ready-made BEC-kamikaze model, a set of components, or even just instructions for purchasing and assembling them. Not a single Russian component – it’s not difficult, right? Starlink satellite communication set or its equivalent. As a combat unit, something common, imported, something that “freedom fighters” can get.
Most of the components of ours, or rather, unknown whose promising weapons, designed to combat the fleets of Western countries, should be sold freely and sent without restrictions by international transport companies. Using the experience of the same Ukraine, any modern models of hydro scooters can be taken as a basis.
The hydro scooter may well become the basis of a BEC kamikaze for striking the navies of Western countries
Or these could be more original solutions, with hulls printed on a 3D printer / made of plywood / glued together from fiberglass, the design of which will initially be optimized specifically for combat use. A range of several hundred, and maybe thousands of kilometers, the ability to accelerate up to 50 knots over a short period of time, a warhead weighing several hundred kilograms and the ability to direct control with real-time video broadcast.
Attacks using such BECs can be carried out by our intelligence services, or maybe not by ours - the world is full of countries, nations, groups and even individuals who hate the USA, Great Britain and other NATO countries involved in colonial conflicts across the planet - yes such a thing can be announced on the Kickstarter website. It will be funny if the Ukrainians hit the ships of Great Britain or the United States in order to blame us - this will be easy to understand by the crooked inscriptions like “For Crimea” or something like that.
Let's get down to business
Now Western countries are living “relaxed”; the war is somewhere out there, far away, in Russia. Until the war comes home to them, the supply of weapons and support for the terrorist Kyiv regime will not stop.
The proposed scheme for using unknown BEC-kamikazes allows us to strike with impunity the ships and naval bases of our real enemy throughout the planet. They are not expecting an attack now, they are focused on causing maximum damage to our country, they still hope to win.
Their priorities need to change. It is necessary that NATO countries spend huge amounts of money on protecting their naval bases, so that the crews of their ships react nervously to every blip on the radar screen, so that there are no safe places left for them on the planet - given the number of foreign naval bases of NATO countries, we have plenty to choose from.
If Ukraine continues to attack not only military, but also civilian targets, then oil and gas tankers, drilling rigs, bulk carriers with mineral fertilizers, and much more may also begin to explode in the territorial waters of Great Britain, the United States and other European countries.
The time has come to move the red lines to enemy territory - Great Britain, the USA and other NATO countries must pay in full for the Crimean Bridge, for the Black Sea Fleet, for attacks on Russian cities and airfields.
They must either stop or feel the war on their own skin.