Compared: The New Ukrainian And Houthi Weapons Changing Naval Warfare

[@Donuthan]

Commenting to bump your alg, you put out some great stuff Mr Sutton you're very informative, your erring on the side of caution, and not using conjecture to speak "definitively" on issues is much appreciated, and sorely needed across the platform right now.

[@jayrigger7508]

ok so Houthi's and the Blowfish... that is heck of a play on words

[@LackofFaithify]

I hate that this was the first thing I thought when I saw the video go live....lol

[@Youtuber-k2p]

Oops, I just wrote much the same thing and then saw your comment. I wonder how many know of Hootie and the Blowfish. Ps, there is no apostrophe in Houthis.

[@johnd2058]

Based and Xennial-pilled.

[@LawIV]

This should have been the video title

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

BA DUM TSSS...😊

[@bigsarge2085]

Always interesting, thank you. And fantastic Houthi & the Blowfish reference!

[@Youtuber-k2p]

Actually it’s a Hootie and the Blowfish reference.

[@bigsarge2085]

@@KZbinr-k2p Yes, I know. Everyone knows, that's why it's subtley funny. Are you okay?? SMH

[@ernestoherreralegorreta137]

Very informative and quite professional tone. Thank you for sharing it!

[@ZacCrawforth]

Fascinating and informative, as always. Thanks!

[@sWankerRabbi]

Love your content, hope it inspires more experts to create content like this

[@anonymousontheinternet1309]

Great rundown, thank you

[@roberttaubman4418]

Another great briefing ❤

[@BeKindToBirds]

Perhaps the operators of Houthi drones have to stay close to activate previously waypointed drone boats and also to target and waypoint from other observations. Once the waypoint is good enough they can let the gyro do its work and drive the drone the rest of the way. It is an interesting system where it is vulnerable to jamming but only in the middle of operation. Its ins to travel long distance and ins at final approach. Evolutionary adaptation to the signal environment lives in i think. I expect many combat drones will work this way demonstrated at sea in the future, with signals being either high speed data control or updating ins and mission packages at brief interludes that can be tactically arranged to accommodate the signals environment. Afaik this is consistent with development in land drones and air drones. But I think here on the open sea, now, its being engineered into a truly robust future architecture.

[@Wannes_]

06:40 using a camera to monitor instruments has been done decades ago in flight testing of aircraft

[@brianomalley7501]

Grade A once again thrrowly enjoyable great insight great information thank you for all I hard work looking forward to the next one

[@gafrers]

Greatly explained and interesting as always

[@HRM.H]

Lovely videos as usual!

[@onetwo5155]

Very interesting, especially when ot comes to the Houthis' versions that are very ad hoc. The point about inertial guidance for larger naval targets is something very interesting in this application, especially after seeing it be so unreliable as a secondary guidance system for spoofed loitering munitions and other bombs or land.

[@cornfield755]

Thanks for sharing your insight.

[@jamesgrantham1264]

Great work as ever, thanks

[@poundingthepavementUSA]

Great video again!

[@Youtuber-k2p]

Straight up, the reference to Hootie & the Blowfish, for those who don’t remember or know them, a wonderful band. Nice play on words!

[@tramapolean]

Great stuff, thank you!

[@geoffreymuir1243]

Thank you.

[@wilhelmheinzerling5341]

Great work as always

[@bryanst.martin7134]

1st post from you in months. Thanks. Maybe an algorithm thing.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video, H.I. 👍

[@scottsauritch3216]

USN is already upgrading it's Mark.38 to mod_4, which replaces the 25mm Bushmaster with the 30mm Mk.44 Bushmaster II specifically for C-UAS/USV/UUV as they're capable of ABM which is essential..! Most newly built/designed Naval vessels are being equipped with at least 1 ABM capable Autocannon (typically 30 or 35mm Bushmasters) and/or 1 or more DEW's (Laser/Dazzler/Both) of anywhere from ~50-150 kw for C-UAS, up to 300 kw to 1 mw for Missile Defense...

[@BillySugger1965]

Wonderful content as ever. If possible, please can you distinguish _surface_ from _service_ when describing USVs? Many thanks, and please keep up the excellent and valuable work 👍

[@shy-watcher]

8:12 "Divine wind", where have I heard this phrase before...

[@erevolutie]

Interesting

[@mostlygamingstuff1260]

Can you do a video on the internal waterways Russia has to move boats from the Black Sea to the Baltic? I saw you were cited in a Wikipedia article, and I clicked on the footnote and read your site. Very neat information, but limited. Could you explain more about the topic ?

[@David-kr7fx]

@HISuttonCovertShores Will there be a video on the Paris 2024 opening ceremony mechanical horse semi-submersible? 😄

[@gryph01]

They are like the fire ships used throughout history

[@Mungobohne1]

theyre not

[@monsieurmctroll5600]

Good evening. I have a question: is there still some way to purchase your book about narco submarinein Europe ?

[@LackofFaithify]

I've been curious, as most of the inner parts of these things are off the Aliexpress shelf, does China start making sure shipments to Ukraine have issues, or do they want Russia to lose more, afraid to hurt their sales, some combination, etc... And also, are the Houthis actually building their drones or are they being sent as DIY packages from Iran?

[@karl0ssus1]

The Russians don't have a lot of influence in China, and there is speculation that the very public Russian alignment with North Korea has annoyed the CCP, so it's not all that likely that China would be trying to cut the flow of parts to Ukraine. They're probably all bought through intermediaries anyway, to protect against that sort of basic interference

[@denisefremov3994]

@@karl0ssus1 China simply adheres to the principle of free trade, which was abandoned in the West

[@quickestscoped7603]

i feel like it would matter more what the individual companies think; they can probably do a lot that the government doesn't see. those companies probably care the most about profit but who knows...maybe i'm just being pessimistic. Honestly a lot of those products tend to be low-quality regardless, I doubt they do much but who knows

[@snapper69996666]

Smart people with little money

[@ikrisoft]

I didn’t know about the machine vision being applied. Is dazzle camouflage back in fashion?

[@AdilAchahbar-g9i]

This will not help if the marine drone uses infrared vision cameras or thermal vision cameras

[@notreally2227]

expect to see similar taiwan product

[@everypitchcounts4875]

The T-38 devil ray USV tops out at 100 knots. Wonder how fast these go

[@relwaretep]

I suspect the CV is identifying "a large object that's in between the sky and the sea (two large chunks which each have rather similar properties)". That would be the main filter, which is why the explosion is being tracked. The tracking may merely indicate it's trying to establish if the object it sees is a ship or not. Without seeing a full video, hard to say - but a full video would also provide an adversary with ideas to confuse the algorithm being used, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@denisefremov3994]

Never ask a woman about her age, a man about his salary, or a Houthi from where he got hypersound.

[@AdilAchahbar-g9i]

The one used by the Houthis uses the signal directly. It does not use the Starlink satellite. This marine drone that Ukraine uses has a long range. Ukrainian drones are better because they use Starlink satellite signals

[@ognjenbegicevic6298]

Comment for the algorithm gods.

[@dggeers]

Surface running torpedos?

[@schrecksekunde2118]

"from scripture... god and so on" - love it 😂

[@xiniks]

Toofan≈Typhoon?

[@HISuttonCovertShores]

just storm, but i understand more like divine storm, religious reference

[@rickhunter47]

​@@HISuttonCovertShoresToufan actually translates to "great flood" in Arabic, sometimes flood of biblical proportions.

[@hourbee5535]

Ukraine target exclusively military ships while Houthis target mostly civilian ships

[@denisefremov3994]

According to you, the Crimean Bridge is a warship

[@burningphoneix]

Slow, exposed torpedoes.

[@EdwardRLyons]

Would it be fair to say that such attack USVs are most effective in littoral warfare, but they would be far less effective in blue-water naval conflict?

[@hillogical]

Jeune École 2.0

[@whya2ndaccount]

Is there any chance that the Houthi "targeting point" is actually being added to the video after the event (photoshop, etc.) to make them appear more sophisticated than they actually are?

[@csr7080]

Basic computer vision algorithms are really really easy to set up though, are available off the shelf, and don't need all that much computing power either. So I don't think it's that unlikely they might be at least trialling systems like that, though of course you can always just run it on videos after the fact and pretend it was done in real time.

[@geraint8989]

Much was made of Musk refusing to be complicit in a major act of war against Russia, but does Starlink being integral to these USVs suggest an agreement?

[@12pentaborane]

What's funny about Musk's hestitation is he literally is part of the American military space infrastructure, even fought hard to be a part of it. Starshield is Starlink with some Northrop equipment.

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

I'm curious to see whether Elon Musk will still be supplying Ukraine with Starlink after the US election, assuming the worst-case scenario materializes and Trump becomes Donald I of America.

[@AdilAchahbar-g9i]

The Saudis and Emiratis say the Houthis are puffer fish. That's ridiculous coming from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates.Because that puffer fish humiliated them in Yemen

[@LawIV]

Cheers to the anti genocide pirates

[@denisefremov3994]

Ahah, MoD RF just posted a movie where 10 UAVs of AFU had been destroyed

[@Lezcho]

#5 /moan

[@TheClanAdventures]

The Russians sea drones are having a more meaningful impact in the Black sea.

[@bluemountain4181]

Really? The Ukrainian navy doesn't have many surface ships anyway and so far as I'm aware Russia isn't targeting merchant shipping. What are they doing with their sea drones?

[@TheClanAdventures]

@@bluemountain4181 It was a comment to catch nafos. But it works on others also. But yes you are correct. Ukraine doesn't have a navy left so no need for Russian sea drones in the area.

[@msvishwas5606]

Pls make video on indian submarine