A Navy-operated drone boat recovered the helicopter crew, marking the first known military personnel recovery involving an uncrewed surface vessel. The incident occurred near Oman, where American ...

This is the first known use of a uncrewed surface vessel to recover downed aircrew and is major sign of what's to come.

A US drone boat conducted a first-of-its-kind rescue mission to save the crew of an American Apache helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the military said. The unmanned vessel, ...

The U.S. Navy successfully utilized an autonomous drone vessel for a groundbreaking rescue operation to retrieve two pilots from a crashed Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.

A 24-foot autonomous drone boat just saved two American lives — and may have permanently rewritten the rules of military search and rescue. A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter crashed at 7:33 p ...