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A US warship fired at a drone that was terrorizing a Navy destroyer off the coast of California for weeks in 2019 after the Navy deployed special ‘ghostbuster’ teams to deal with them, new documents reveal.  The series of encounters with suspected UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles, in July 2019, …

Navy warship uses a new high-energy laser to shoot down drone in mid-flight The USS Portland successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle in mid-flight during the test of a new “high-energy laser weapon system” on May 16, according to U.S. Pacific Fleet. Video footage released by the Navy …

Reuters Sea Hunter, docked in Portland, Ore. What is 132 feet long, capable of reaching 27 knots, weighs 135 tons and has a range of 10,000 nautical miles? If your guess is a medium-sized naval vessel, you’d be right. However, this particular naval vessel, a trimaran warship dubbed “Sea …