American Military News by William Cole 11/3/2019
In a first for the Navy, a quadcopter drone was flown more than a mile from shore on Oahu to deliver a 5-pound payload of circuit cards, medical supplies and food items to the submarine USS Hawaii in a potentially radical new way to provide logistics resupply of small items to subs at sea, officials said.
The partnership with the University of Hawaii to develop the capability, leading to the Oct. 10 test, resulted in the creation of the submarine force’s first unmanned aerial vehicle squadron in the Pacific, according to the Navy.
The new drone application comes with the Pentagon sharply increasing its unmanned-system funding and testing as a more economical way of meeting challenges from China and Russia.
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