Ukrainian drones hit Svetlyak-class patrol ship in occupied Crimea
Ukrainian drone forces struck a Russian Svetlyak-class border patrol ship in occupied Crimea on June 4, according to Robert ‘Magyar’ Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces.
Troops from the 1st Separate Center of the Unmanned Systems Forces carried out the strike on the ship in the settlement of Yurkine in Crimea.
A Svetlyak-class border patrol ship is designed to monitor and protect ports and vessels and to create a tactical line of air defense and antisubmarine defense.
According to the information provided, the vessel is 49.5 meters, or about 162 feet, long and is armed with 16 Igla man-portable air defense missile systems (MANPADS), AK-176 naval artillery mounts, 14.5 mm machine-gun mounts and six-barrel anti-aircraft guns.
Magyar also listed other targets that were hit:
- A Pantsir-S1 missile and gun air defense system in Kherson Oblast
- An RSBN-4N short-range radio navigation system in Crimea
- Locomotives in Crimea
- Transformers and fuel-and-lubricants tank cars in Donetsk Oblast
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