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Commander describes the moment a US Navy destroyer blasted an enemy drone out of the sky with a 5-inch deck gun
A US Navy destroyer operating in the Red Sea last year used its five-inch deck gun to shoot a Houthi drone out of the sky, a top commander revealed this week. The American destroyer, USS Stockdale ...
In 15 months, the Navy fired more air defense missiles than it did in the last 30 years
The Navy has burned through costly missiles, some with a price tag of $28.7 million. So, it has turned to 5-inch gun rounds ...
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An Arleigh-Burke Destroyer Shot Down Houthi Drones Using a 5-inch Gun
used their destroyer’s five-inch mounted gun to take down a Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle at the tail end of 2024. As described by Vice Adm. Brad Cooper at an event co-hosted by the U.S. Naval ...
Climb aboard Olympia, the oldest steel warship still afloat in the world
The USS Olympia is best known for winning the Battle of Manila Bay and for transporting a service member's remains to the ...