A ✍️fully loaded Aframax tanker crawling through the Black Sea, then out of nowhere three unmanned attack boats start tailing it near the edge of Turkish waters. What happened next turned a calm afternoon into a straight survival fight.

🤫MT Kairos, IMO 9236004, carrying 25 crew members. Four were Bangladeshi, the rest Chinese, Indonesian, and Myanmar. Five months on board, normal routine, nothing unusual as the ship headed toward Novorossiysk for loading.

☝️Then at about 4:25 PM, the drones closed in. No radio calls. No warning. Just hostile silence.

😍A few minutes later a missile shot out and slammed into the area near the propeller, hitting a fuel tank and triggering a blast that lit the engine room. The vessel lost movement instantly.

🥶The captain alerted Turkish Coast Guard as the attack boats kept circling back, firing more missiles and ramming the stern until they self-detonated. Within minutes the accommodation and midship areas were burning. Two lifeboats destroyed. Fuel tanks gone. The crew pushed to the forward section, surrounded by heat and smoke with no way to fight back.

Nobody died. Not one. A burning tanker in the Black Sea, multiple missile strikes, exploding fuel tanks, and still every single crew member survived. The Turkish Coast Guard reached the vessel by 6:50 PM and pulled all 25 men off alive.

They are now safe in Türkiye.
The videos were filmed by crew on mobile phones.
Date of incident: 29.11.25

Reported by: Ajgar H Badhon

If this is what unmanned warfare looks like today, imagine what the next two years in the Black Sea will bring.

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