这种船能探测乌军的雷达和导弹信号，因此成了乌海军的眼中钉肉中刺。
For nearly a year, the Ukrainian military has been hunting—with drone boats and missiles—the 4,000-ton Ivan Khurs and her 131 crew. And on Sunday, it seems, the Ukrainians finally hit the ship, damaging her with a cruise missile at her mooring in Sevastopol in occupied Ukraine, during a raid that also damaged as many as three landing ships.
Ten months ago in May, the Ukrainian navy’s explosives-laden, satellite-controlled drone boats chased down Ivan Khurs while the intel ship was sailing 75 miles northeast of the Bosporus Strait in the western Black Sea.
“The drone had to sail for over [310 miles] in an extremely difficult operation,” an official source told Ukrainian Pravda. “The start of the mission had been delayed due to inclement weather. The connection dropped repeatedly.”
While the drone boat got close and exploded, it apparently didn’t inflict any damage on Ivan Khurs. The intel vessel soon was spotted sailing back into Sevastopol, seemingly unimpaired.