它们最初只是改装的摩托艇。如今，乌克兰的海上无人机充当微型航空母舰，其他国家也想加入。
They began as modified motorboats. Now, Ukrainian sea drones act as miniature aircraft carriers, and other countries want in.
6月，乌克兰测试从水上无人机平台发射拦截无人机。 机。它们将空中攻击无人机运送到更靠近目标的地方。本月，一段视频显示乌克兰无人机与俄罗斯无人机在水上展开无人机对无人机的战斗。
Test launching an interceptor drone from a waterborne drone platform in Ukraine in June. Credit...By Brendan Hoffman For The New York Times Supported by Ukrainian naval drones ply the Black Sea with surface-to-air missiles, ready to shoot down enemy warplanes. They ferry aerial attack drones closer to targets. And this month, a Ukrainian drone was filmed in a drone-on-drone water battle with a Russian counterpart.
当俄罗斯对乌克兰发动全面战争时，莫斯科控制了水道。基辅扩大了无人机行动，最终用相当于遥控爆炸快艇的装备击沉了俄罗斯引以为傲的黑海舰队约三分之一的舰艇。
When Russia began its full-scale war against Ukraine, Moscow dominated the waterways. Kyiv scaled up its drone operations, eventually sinking about a third of Russia’s vaunted Black Sea fleet with what amounted to remote-controlled, exploding speedboats.
如今，乌克兰更进一步，建立海上无人机防御和进攻层次，从而改变海战形态。
Now Ukraine is taking it a step further by establishing offshore layers of drone defense and offense, transforming naval warfare along the way.
新技术每月都会出现在海上。例如，一艘无人机艇将一辆装有机枪的四轮遥控地面车辆投送到俄罗斯占领的半岛上，乌克兰称这是史上首次全机器人两栖攻击。
New technologies arrive on the sea each month. In one instance, a drone boat deposited a four-wheeled, remote-controlled ground vehicle with a mounted machine gun on a Russian-occupied peninsula in what Ukraine called the first ever all-robot amphibious assault.
遥控海军舰艇并非乌克兰独有。近十年前，也门胡塞叛军曾用无人机艇袭击沙特护卫舰。今年夏天，美国使用无人“海盗”船救援被击落的直升机机组人员并攻击海军设施。但乌克兰在对抗规模大得多的俄罗斯海军方面取得的成功，正被从台北到塔林的军事规划者研究。
Remotely operated naval vessels are not unique to Ukraine. Yemen’s Houthi rebels used a drone boat in an attack on a Saudi frigate almost a decade ago. This summer, the United States used unmanned Corsairs to rescue a downed helicopter crew and to attack a naval installation. But Ukraine’s success in fighting a vastly larger Russian Navy is being studied by military planners from Taipei to Tallinn.