Meet the Drone Boat That Just Made Military History

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The U.S. Army employed the Saronic Corsair autonomous surface vessel to locate and recover two aviators from a downed AH-64 Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, marking a first in military history for using unmanned boats in real combat rescue operations.

On Monday evening, a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman. Thomas Novelly of Defense One reports that a Saronic Corsair autonomous surface vessel located and recovered the two downed aviators, marking the U.S. military’s first publicized use of an unmanned boat to rescue downed aircrew in real-world warfare. (See … Read more The post Meet the Drone Boat That Just Made Military History appeared first on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University.