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The Arleigh Burke Destroyer’s Mk 45 Cannon Has a New Role: Drone Defense
American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun against one of the drones.
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U.S. Approves Standard Missile-6 Sale for Japan’s Aegis Destroyers
While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...
How the US Navy's first hostile drone kill with an air-to-air missile set the stage for the emergence of the 'Murder Hornet'
The Navy said that the "Murder Hornet" configuration on its F/A-18 fighter jet is comprised of nine air-to-air missiles.
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China’s Type 055 destroyer can stop US fleet with unmanned ‘kill web’, war game suggests
China’s Type 055 is one of the largest warships in the world, but in the simulation the US fleet boasted eight Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. Accompanying the Type 055, two unmanned mother ...
Commander describes the moment a US Navy destroyer blasted an enemy drone out of the sky with a 5-inch deck gun
USS Stockdale destroyed the Houthi drone during a complex attack on American forces in November.
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Kennedy Burke re-signs with Liberty on one-year contract: ‘Vital piece to our roster’
Kennedy Burke isn’t going anywhere. On the first day of the WNBA free agency signing period, the Liberty saw guard Courtney Vandersloot sign a one-year deal with the Chicago Sky but managed to ...
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Commander describes the moment a US Navy destroyer blasted an enemy drone out of the sky with a 5-inch deck gun
A US Navy destroyer used its deck gun to shoot down a Houthi drone in the Red Sea last year. A top commander revealed details of the battle for the first time this week. USS Stockdale and other ...