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There's no marines onboard a destroyer, and no one is shooting anything that hasn't shot first when you're in that area, it's full of Navy training platforms an
by lambda_obrien 6y ago
There's no marines onboard a destroyer, and no one is shooting anything that hasn't shot first when you're in that area, it's full of Navy training platforms and civilians.
- vl 6y agoOn the other hand if you allow drone to get to the ship, it might be too late.
- tyxodiwktis 6y agoNot really - you need thousands of pounds of ordinance to sink a destroyer and no small UAV is carrying that.
- mikewarot 6y agoThe UAV could be the first part of a coordinated attack... it could do something to foul the sensors on the ship, for example.
- hcurtiss 6y agoDid you see some representation of size?
- NaturalPhallacy 6y agoBased on the flight times and 100 mile flights ~100 miles off the coast and the investigated boats in the area...they couldn't be small. At least not with current consumer battery technology. Maybe if they were launched by a sub? There's a youtuber that has a multi-hour autonomous drone, but it's solar powered and this was at night.
- bigiain 6y agoHybris electric/gas drones are commercially available these days. https://dronelife.com/2021/03/18/skyfront-gas-electric-hybrid-flies-205-miles-for-longest-drone-multirotor-flight-on-record/ https://dronelife.com/2021/03/18/skyfront-gas-electric-hybri... That could almost had done what’s reported from land, and easily from a small boat 50 miles away from the ships (which is well over the horizon).