10-29-2022, 09:38 PM
The two USV videos show attacks at different times. The first video is pretty clearly at night, seemingly with fog present, while the second appears to be during partial light. The two attacks in the first video seem to have been carried out without Russian detection as we see no evidence of defensive attempts.
I suspect the first video shows two more or less simultaneous attacks with neither ship having been alerted to an earlier attack. The UCVs appear to hit the frigate basically mid-ship and the mine-sweep at the stern. During the video of the attack on the frigate, at 0:23 there appears to be a flash. Could this be the strike against the mine-sweeper? That segment ends 16 seconds later ("The moment of the strike"), but we don't know if the video is real-time or slow-motion.
The end of the first video contains a sequence seen from the shore (recorded from a laptop), we see two explosions separated by 7 (video) seconds and by some unknown distance. The first is a small explosion (1:12) while the second is a massive explosion (1:19). The distance between the two suggests to me that this isn't a primary and secondary explosion, but two primary explosions.
The second video shows a later attack (lighter sky) with defenses alerted, and contains a number of clips (0:00-0:25, 0:26-0:51, 0:52-1:01, 1:02-1:08,1:09-1:14, 1:15-1:42). As best I can tell, the first two clips are of the same USV but separated in time. I presume the series of explosions in the distance are vessels firing artillery at suspected drones. The target is best seen at 0:51 (could be the frigate). There is another time skip after that, with the target facing the other direction. Perhaps that is from a different USV.
The view of the monument shows an explosion in daylight at 1:25. The pedestrians stop about 2 seconds later suggesting the explosion was only 0.4 miles away. (I presumed that monument was in Sebastopol but I can't confirm that.)
Ah... one of these USVs had washed ashore recently.
Russia is only acknowledging a hit on the mine sweeper "with minor damage".
The monument at the end of video2 appears to be here. The view in the video is from a webcam site.
I suspect the first video shows two more or less simultaneous attacks with neither ship having been alerted to an earlier attack. The UCVs appear to hit the frigate basically mid-ship and the mine-sweep at the stern. During the video of the attack on the frigate, at 0:23 there appears to be a flash. Could this be the strike against the mine-sweeper? That segment ends 16 seconds later ("The moment of the strike"), but we don't know if the video is real-time or slow-motion.
The end of the first video contains a sequence seen from the shore (recorded from a laptop), we see two explosions separated by 7 (video) seconds and by some unknown distance. The first is a small explosion (1:12) while the second is a massive explosion (1:19). The distance between the two suggests to me that this isn't a primary and secondary explosion, but two primary explosions.
The second video shows a later attack (lighter sky) with defenses alerted, and contains a number of clips (0:00-0:25, 0:26-0:51, 0:52-1:01, 1:02-1:08,1:09-1:14, 1:15-1:42). As best I can tell, the first two clips are of the same USV but separated in time. I presume the series of explosions in the distance are vessels firing artillery at suspected drones. The target is best seen at 0:51 (could be the frigate). There is another time skip after that, with the target facing the other direction. Perhaps that is from a different USV.
The view of the monument shows an explosion in daylight at 1:25. The pedestrians stop about 2 seconds later suggesting the explosion was only 0.4 miles away. (I presumed that monument was in Sebastopol but I can't confirm that.)
Ah... one of these USVs had washed ashore recently.
Russia is only acknowledging a hit on the mine sweeper "with minor damage".
The monument at the end of video2 appears to be here. The view in the video is from a webcam site.