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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Submarine launches undersea drone in a first for US Navy

USS North Dakota (SSN-784)In a first for the U.S. Navy, a submarine has launched and recovered an underwater drone used in a military operation.

The attack submarine USS North Dakota returned to its base in Groton on Monday following a nearly two-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea specifically to test the drone-launching capability.

“This was something they thought we could go do,” Capt. Douglas Gordon, the vessel’s commanding officer, said in an interview at the base. “We went out, and we proved that.”

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