As Russian helicopter gunships and patrol boats closed on Ukrainian unmanned “sea baby” maritime-attack drones on December 6 to destroy them before they reached their targets, they received an unpleasant surprise: The robot boats were shooting back, seemingly with machine guns being automatically aimed and fired.
According to Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, the gunfire from the robot vessels forced the Russian units to break off their attack and is likely to have inflicted Russian casualties, though that could not be confirmed from the grainy video released by the Ukrainian government. It showed a machine gun firing towards helicopters but few further details.
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