US military used seaborne drones in attack on Iran port

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The U.S. military used one-way attack seaborne drones in an assault on an Iranian port on Sunday — the first instance of U.S. forces utilizing sea drones in combat operations.

The military utilized three Corsair unmanned surface vessels to strike a ship maintenance facility and a submarine at the Bandar Abbas Naval Base, the headquarters of the Iranian Navy, during Sunday’s fresh round of strikes, the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced on Monday.

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Corsair, a 24-foot autonomous boat that carries up to 1,000 pounds of payload and reaches over 35 knots, is produced by Saronic, a Texas-based defense company founded in 2022.

The same kind of vessel picked up a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache crew that went down last month near the coast of Oman.

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