US Navy conducts FIRST-EVER drone boat strike agai…
US Navy conducts FIRST-EVER drone boat strike agai…
WASHINGTON — The United States Navy has crossed a profound technological and operational rubicon in the waters of the Persian Gulf, launching the first-ever combat strike by autonomous, explosive-packed drone boats in American military history.
On Sunday, three pilotless vessels slipped through the heavily fortified waters of the Strait of Hormuz to detonate inside Iran’s premier naval bastion at Bandar Abbas. The successful operation did more than neutralize a critical Iranian submarine and damage a vital naval outpost; it signaled the arrival of a quiet, relentless revolution that is fundamentally upending both the theater of war and the secretive, multi-billion-dollar military-industrial complex back home. For the first time, the Pentagon’s highly experimental efforts to weaponize autonomous maritime fleets have transitioned from surveillance and intelligence support into lethal, kinetic combat operations, establishing the United States as one of the only nations on Earth to successfully execute autonomous robotic strikes at sea.
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