U.S. Navy s MQ-8B Fire Scout Drone Crashes into Ship Our Bureau 728
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A U.S. Navy MQ-8B Fire Scout drone crashed into the side of Littoral Combat Ship, Charleston soon after it took off from its deck on Monday.
No one was injured, but the 31-foot-long MQ-8B Fire Scout drone fell into the sea and was not recovered, Scott D. Conn, Commander of the U.S. 3rd fleet said in a statement.
A video of the mishap was published by DVIDS, an operation supported by Defense Media Activity, a U.S. DoD field activity.
And how is South Korea is preparing to defeat them?
Here s What You Need to Remember: In particular, the U.S. Navy is worried about swarm attacks, given that Iran will also use flotillas of small, fast boats to take on American warships in the narrow waters of the Persian Gulf. The navy recently test-fired a modified U.S. Army Hellfire antitank missile, reconfigured as an antiship missile, from a Littoral Combat Ship.
If South Korea goes to war with its northern neighbor, one of the threats that it will face is swarms of small naval craft armed with missiles and torpedoes.
In the November 2003 issue, Popular Mechanics got a look at a new breed of warship. Born from the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, the new Littoral Combat Ship was designed to combat international terrorists.
Three proposals gave a good look at what this new ship would look like, and the Pentagon would eventually select both Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics to build four ships total. But that would be the beginning of a program filled with cost overruns and failed promises and some of those headaches still exist today.
It happened in an instant. One moment, a perfectly routine refueling operation was under way. The next moment, the crew of the
Questions raised about Navy plan to decommission four Littoral Combat Ships
The push comes as the Navy has stated it intends to increase its fleet to 355 ships from its current level of 297 ships. Author: Mike Gooding Updated: 7:21 PM EDT April 15, 2021
WASHINGTON Lawmakers are questioning the Navy and its push to decommission warships years before the end of their life expectancy.
At issue: the Navy s announcement last summer that it intends to retire the Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS-1) and three other LCS s as a way to save money.
The Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday has said, Those ships are not bringing lethality to the fight.