An MQ-9 Drone Is Teaming Up with a Navy Warship to Obliterate Targets at Sea
22 Apr 2021
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
The U.S. Navy is pairing an MQ-9B Sea Guardian drone with a guided-missile cruiser capable of firing anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine missiles as a hunter-killer team in an unprecedented exercise testing new unmanned systems.
The medium-altitude drone is finding targets for the Cruiser Princeton to destroy during the Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 exercise happening off the coast of San Diego this week.
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"Using sonobuoys and other assets, the Sea Guardian identified contacts and reported locations remotely to the commander on board the cruiser," a Wednesday Navy news release announcing the test states. The ship is set to fire on the targets later in the exercise.
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