Military briefing: Ukraine raid heralds new era of naval drone warfare

Even the navigation technology used to locate targets would be readily available for amateur drone makers, said Samuel Cranny-Evans, a military analyst at the UK think-tank the Royal United Services Institute. “Theoretically it would be quite simple to program a marine drone to target a specific Russian vessel. That would be well within the technological capacity of a country as tech-literate as Ukraine,” he said. “War is always a great driver of innovation.”