Posted on 06/09/2026 7:50:35 AM PDT by McGruff
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, powered by artificial intelligence, located the crew who had been stuck for two hours in the waters off the coast of Oman, bringing them to shore, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The operation marks the first time a high-tech US Navy drone deployed to the Middle East was used to conduct a rescue mission.
The Navy previous deployed a Seahawk medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) with an aircraft carrier group.
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It so hard to navigate thru all the ads in NY Post stories to get at the actual article. Most times, I just end up giving up and just reading the responses in order to get some information about what’s in the article.
I just have one popup - “Will you disable your ad blocker?” and I click “continue without supporting us.”
According to the number of posts to the article, nobody else wants to deal with the ads. Not many other websites are as disturbing with ads as the NY Post. Mind you that the times I got to the articles before, I did enjoy their content. I just don’t enjoy clicking off so many ads, and I shouldn’t have to disable ad-blockers or get any.
President Trump chastised Israel not to go for revenge against Iran proxies in Lebanon, says enough, otherwise back and forth hostilities continue.
Meanwhile, President Trump vows revenge against Iran for shooting down this helicopter. Okay... How about we allow both Israel and the USA to finish the job and wipe out the terrorists.
Unmanned Surface Vessel = I was a very small part of the R&D for this idea some years ago when I was chief engineer in the USCG ship simulators facility. We learned that the processing and input data required to be moderately successful was light years beyond this, one of the worlds newest and premier full mission ship simulators.
Enter AI.
OK, for me it’s easy to block the ads there with one click and continue on. Other sites are not so accommodating and don’t have a “continue without supporting us” so I like NY Post for providing that.
Fine, you can use them, but I avoid them as often as I can.
The Post and others have at times, blocked what I had been already reading, with an ad that covered the entire article or parts of it, and which I then had problems trying to click off the ads. Keep the ads away from covering the content, and I might then view them more often.
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