Russia is copying the naval-drone war Ukraine invented, and the smuggled Starlink terminals on its destroyed attack boats show it still has no control link of its own.
A Russian Black Sea Fleet frigate class, the Admiral Grigorovich (Project 11356R/Krivak V) delivers Kalibr cruise-missile land-attack strikes and provides multirole escort — a workhorse of Moscow's naval strike from the Black Sea.
Red Cat put its V7 unmanned boat into full-rate production days before Ukrainian drones reached Russia's Baltic Fleet at Kronstadt. The two events describe one reversal: the combat-proven Ukrainian sea drone has become a Western product line.