U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant (WMEC-617) conducts a joint operation with the USS Farragut (DDG-99) to interdict a drug smuggling vessel, Oct. 15, 2023, in the Caribbean Sea. During the patrol, Vigilant’s crew disrupted illegal narcotics smuggling, interdicting more than 5,600 pounds of illicit drugs.
USS Farragut Going Full Speed Ahead Making Multi...
USS Farragut (DDG 99) has found success in stopping alleged illicit drug traffickers in the Caribbean, with...
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An Aerosonde unmanned aircraft system launches from the flight deck of Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10) during U.S. 4th Fleet’s Hybrid Fleet Campaign Event in the Atlantic Ocean October 10, 2023. Today the Aerosonde provided aerial targeting information and visual confirmation, allowing an unmanned surface vehicle to fire an inert Poniard rocket at an afloat target, and then perform battle damage assessment, marking the first complete unmanned kill chain for these systems. The Hybrid Fleet Campaign Event, previously referred to as Fleet Experimentation Program (FLEX), provides an opportunity for the Office of Naval Research’s Scientists-to-Sea program to witness research and development progress for, and demonstrations of, unmanned systems and their adaptations in support of the Chief of Naval Operations Navigation Plan 2022.
Hybrid Fleet Campaign Event Evaluates Technology...
U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet demonstrated unmanned air and surface capabilities from...
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Commercial operators deploy Saildrone Voyager Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) out to sea in the initial steps of U.S. 4th Fleet’s Operation Windward Stack during a launch from Naval Air Station Key West’s Mole Pier and Truman Harbor, Sept. 13, 2023. Operation Windward Stack is part of 4th Fleet’s unmanned integration campaign, which provides the Navy a region to experiment with and operate unmanned systems in a permissive environment, develop Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) against near-peer competitors, and refine manned and unmanned Command and Control (C2) infrastructure, all designed to move the Navy to the hybrid fleet.
C4F’s Hybrid Fleet Completes Target Detection Test
Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-South) and Saildrone successfully completed an evaluation of the...
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