Russia is highly likely using an amphibious plane from the 1960s to hunt for a new threat to its Black Sea Fleet, Western intel says

• Ukraine has battered Russia's Black Sea Fleet with cruise missile strikes and sea drone attacks.
• To deal with the new sea drone threat, Russia is increasing its maritime air patrol operations. 
• British intelligence said a "key asset" for these missions is the decades-old Be-12 amphibious plane.

Russia is highly likely relying on a decades-old amphibious plane to seek out a dangerous Ukrainian threat to its Black Sea Fleet, according to Western intelligence.