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On May 2, 2025, infrared footage captured an extraordinary scene unfolding over the Black Sea. A Russian Su-30 fighter jet streaked across the night sky when suddenly, from the waters below, a bright flash erupted. A missile climbed rapidly upward, tracking the aircraft. Moments later, the $37 million fighter was engulfed in flames, plummeting toward the waves. Within minutes, a second Su-30 suffered the same fate.

The strikes didn't come from another aircraft or conventional air defense system. The missiles launched from a weapon that wasn't supposed to exist - a remote-controlled Magura V7, costing just $273,000, no larger than a speedboat, mounting American Sidewinder missiles originally designed for fighter jets decades earlier. Advanced fighter jets now faced a threat from the most unlikely source: unmanned surface vessels operating in complete darkness across hundreds of miles of open water.