Manufacturer catalog

Security Service of Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine is Ukraine's state security service and a public developer of cataloged unmanned maritime systems. Its builder profile connects to the Sea Baby USV family, which official Ukrainian sources identify as SBU-developed unmanned surface vehicles built by SBU teams with civilian engineering and IT support rather than by a conventional defense prime.

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Founded under the 25 March 1992 Law on the Security Service of Ukraine, the SSU is a Ukrainian government security institution whose public priorities include counterintelligence, counterterrorism, information security, protection of state secrets, and military counterintelligence.

For this catalog, the relevant builder role is narrower than the agency's full security mandate. Official Ukrainian sources identify Sea Baby unmanned surface vehicles as products of the Security Service of Ukraine, and the SBU has publicly described its own team, assisted by civilian engineers and IT specialists, developing and manufacturing the drones at a protected facility in Ukraine.

Unmanned surface vehiclesMaritime drone systemsState securityCounterintelligenceCybersecurity

Notable Systems

Grad-armed Sea Baby drones, Rocket-armed unmanned surface vessel, Aircraft & UAVs

Sea Baby USV

Rocket-armed unmanned surface vessel

Official Ukrainian government material identifies Sea Baby as an SBU unmanned surface vehicle product with published speed, range, payload, and unit-cost figures.

Sources: United24 Sea Baby, SBU Sea Baby development
Grad-armed Sea Baby drones, Rocket-armed unmanned surface vessel, Aircraft & UAVs

Grad-armed Sea Baby drones

Rocket-armed unmanned surface vessel

A rocket-armed Sea Baby adaptation attached to the same SBU maritime drone development line in cataloged weapon entries.

Sources: SBU Sea Baby development, Ukrainska Pravda Sea Baby production

Manufacturer History

  1. Security Service of Ukraine established

    The Verkhovna Rada adopted the Law on the Security Service of Ukraine, which the SSU identifies as the official establishment date of the service.

    Sources: SSU history

  2. Security priorities shifted after Russian aggression

    The SSU says that, after Russian aggression began in 2014, the service focused resources on countering hybrid warfare, separatism, and threats to Ukraine's territorial integrity.

    Sources: SSU history

  3. Sea Baby development publicly detailed

    The SBU publicly described Sea Baby maritime drones as its own technical development and said SBU personnel, assisted by civilian engineers and IT specialists, worked on their development and manufacture.

    Sources: SBU Sea Baby development, Ukrainska Pravda Sea Baby production

Website links
Official websiteSSU historySea Baby fundraiser

The Security Service of Ukraine is a state security agency rather than a conventional defense manufacturer. Public detail on its maritime drone production facilities is intentionally limited, so this profile describes only the catalog-specific builder role supported by public SBU, Ukrainian government, and open-license image sources.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Security Service of Ukraine official websitePublisher: Security Service of Ukraine | Note: Official SSU homepage supporting the agency identity, public website, security priorities, and state-security context for this builder profile. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • SSU historyPublisher: Security Service of Ukraine | Note: Official SSU history page supporting the 25 March 1992 establishment date and the service's counterintelligence, counterterrorism, information-security, state-secrets, and military-counterintelligence priorities. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • SSU contactsPublisher: Security Service of Ukraine | Note: Official contact page supporting the Central Office address at 33 Volodymyrska St., Kyiv, Ukraine. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • United24 Sea BabyPublisher: United24 | Note: Official Ukrainian government fundraiser identifying Sea Baby unmanned surface vehicles as a product of the Security Service of Ukraine and listing baseline technical characteristics. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • SBU Sea Baby developmentPublisher: Security Service of Ukraine | Note: Official SBU statement describing Sea Baby maritime drones as the service's own technical development and describing SBU personnel, civilian engineers, and IT specialists working on their development and manufacture. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Ukrainska Pravda Sea Baby productionPublisher: Ukrainska Pravda | Note: Established Ukrainian reporting summarizing SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk's public comments that Sea Baby USVs were an SBU technical development produced by an SBU team with civilian engineering and IT support. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Ukrainian marine drones imagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Image provenance source for the builder profile image: Wikimedia Commons attributes the Sea Baby drone image to the Security Service of Ukraine press center and lists Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licensing. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

Category

Aircraft & UAVs

Crewed aircraft, drones, and loitering munitions.

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Naval Systems

Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.

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Sea Baby USV, Naval unmanned surface vehicle, Naval Systems2014 Russia-Ukraine WarSea Baby USVNaval unmanned surface vehicleBuilt in: UkraineSea Baby is a Ukrainian naval unmanned surface vehicle developed and operated by the Security Service of Ukraine for long-range strike missions in the Black Sea. Official and open-source reporting shows it evolving from an explosive one-way attack craft into a modular USV family with mine-laying, Grad rocket, and KPV/KPVT machine-gun configurations, while Ukrainian sources describe a 1,000-kilometer baseline range and a later 1,500-kilometer class upgraded generation.