Ukraine’s deployment of sea drones marks the beginning of a new era in naval warfare.
The deployment of such USVs is nothing new in naval tactics, as boats with explosives that target other vessels and above-water structures have been in use for centuries, often by irregular forces and terrorist groups. However, their deployment by a state as an asymmetric measure against a much more powerful fleet of another state is a new turn in warfare.

Ukrainian experts said they were particularly impressed by the fact that the country's navy was able to coordinate the drones more than 100 miles from its coast, using the weight of numbers – in both sea and air – to get to the area outside the harbor and possibly even within it. But this has to be set against the fact that the damage done in the raid is unclear, for all the excitement it has generated.