Fighterbomber
In light of the enemy's emergence of BEKs that have learned to successfully use missiles with the Air-to-Air homing system, the situation on the "Black Sea" has changed dramatically, not in our favor. It changed in one day.
Now we can essentially destroy BEKs only during the day, in good weather, using jet aircraft, attack aircraft and fighters. And not just good, but I would say in very good weather with a high lower edge of cloud cover.
Perhaps we will try to use Ka-52s with life eggs, but both the first and second options will be used until the first losses.
At the moment, the surface fleet is not able to protect itself from BEKs on the open sea. Or rather, it is not able to effectively defend itself. With varying success, it can protect itself in bays and at bases.
Accordingly, with the knocking out (possibly temporary) of the helicopter component, we (and essentially no one) cannot ensure the safety of civilian shipping at sea.
If anyone has forgotten, I will remind you. The BEK is essentially a jet ski that can fly at speeds of up to a hundred km/h, on which any types of weapons and electronic warfare that it can carry can be installed. We already have BEKs in the air defense version with missiles and automatic machine gun turrets. We can expect the appearance of BEKs carrying drones, electronic warfare systems and MLRS missiles.
Due to its speed and maneuverability, it is almost impossible to hit a BEK with a drone, as well as with emergency drops. The same with ATGMs. And where to launch them from? It doesn’t work from a helicopter, it gets blown away by the air flow from the propeller. Plus, helicopters are now being shot down. From the shore, it won’t fly far. From a ship? Well, maybe only from a ship that is on the shore. And given the inevitable appearance of BEKs that will be in the electronic warfare version, if by some miracle the BEK drones, or just drones, can show some effectiveness, then the evening will cease to be languid.
Today, we can state that the mosquito fleet strategy has completely defeated the strategy of a large fleet in the Black Sea.
It's just that the role of strike and support weapons is played not by small ships and boats, but by BEKs. This won't fly in the ocean yet, but it's a matter of a couple of years. It's obvious that the same thing will happen there. And underwater drones will be added as soon as the issue of their remote control under water is resolved.
The most interesting thing is that this tactic was assumed in Laos and some military even tried to push through and develop it long before the SVO. Many years before.
But it was not possible to defeat the gas generators either then or now.
Perhaps the problem with BEKs will be temporarily solved when they learn to jam the control frequencies of BEKs, maybe the frequencies of Starlink or other communication satellites. But in three years of the SVO, neither side has been able to do this effectively.
And fiber optic control is also rapidly developing. How other types of communication are urgently tested.
One can talk about attack drones with anti-back-up weapons, but today no one has them. Only in theory.
So the battle at sea has moved to a new level.
And we, with the exclusion of our helicopters from this equation, "suddenly" moved into the position of catching up.
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