Watch a Navy drone resupply a ballistic missile submarine at sea
Harm Venhuizen
Past and future collided when a drone resupplied one of the Navy’s oldest ballistic missile submarines on Monday.
The sea service released video showing electronics technicians piloting a quadcopter-style drone to deliver a small payload to the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine Henry M. Jackson, which has been in service since 1981. The test was successful, with the drone dropping its package on the submarine’s hull and returning to operators aboard a nearby surface ship.
The resupply, which took place near the Hawaiian Islands, was “designed to test and evaluate the tactics, techniques, and procedures of U.S. Strategic Command’s expeditionary logistics and enhance the overall readiness of our strategic forces,†according to image descriptions.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/10/22/watch-a-navy-drone-resupply-a-ballistic-missile-submarine-at-sea/
