The Navy is looking for armed drones that can be launched from austere locations or from surface warships other than aircraft ...

The hot item on the Navy’s drone wish list is unmanned aircraft that sailors can launch from smaller ships to carry out long-range attacks.

“This is my goal: If it’s in line of sight of a ship, the first solution that we’re using is directed energy.” This is a quote by Adm. Daryl Caudle, and it sums up the reason the U.S. Navy destroyer ...

A defense official said the drone's intent was unclear. It was shot down after it "unnecessarily maneuvered" toward the ...

Naval analysts have long warned that the one-size-fits-all model of carrier strike group deployment is reaching its limits, stretching the tolerance of crews and ships and leading to maintenance ...

A Navy warship’s successful launch of a one-way attack drone this week was a watershed in the Defense Department push to get hundreds of thousands of the transformational aircraft into the field, ...

Personnel assigned to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet (NAVCENT/C5F) successfully launched a one-way attack drone from a ship at sea for the first time on Dec. 16. (Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

The U.S. Navy on Dec. 18 announced it had for the first time fired a newly developed one-way attack drone from a ship in the Middle East, a step to reverse a threat that ships have faced for years in ...