The Security Service of Ukraine has demonstrated the first maritime drone manufactured due to donations from volunteers.

This was organized by the UNITED24 fundraising platform together with monobank and Oleh Horokhovsky, volunteers Serhii Sternenko and Ihor Lachenkov. Thanks to Ukrainian businesses, international donors and Ukrainians, almost UAH 300 million was raised in record time for 35 SSU’s Sea Baby maritime drones.

The first model in this batch, which the SSU showed during testing, was named Avdiivka. It differs from the previous generation, in appearance as well. The Sea Baby, produced in 2024, is a new generation drone that has been improved and is even more deadly for the enemy.

‘The future belongs to technological approaches to warfare. Today, the SSU is trying to be first in this direction, and it is really succeeding. In the Service, we have trained unique specialists in marine drones to further improve and step up the efforts to clear the Black Sea from the enemy. Our task is to destroy occupiers and bring our Victory closer,’ said the SSU Head Vasyl Maliuk.

Like every model of naval drones, Avdiivka will undergo a full cycle of sea trials. In the process, the SSU team will adapt the latest on-board weaponry specially designed and manufactured for use on multi-purpose platforms such as Sea Baby.

‘The new Sea Baby 2024 has upgraded technical characteristics, greater combat power and manoeuvrability. It can deliver almost a ton of explosives over a distance of over a thousand kilometres. The SSU designed this drone as a universal platform that can carry various weapons,’ said ‘Hunter’, a brigadier general of the SSU.

Earlier, the SSU used the sea drones to hit the Crimean bridge and 11 russian warships.