US, NATO sailors train to counter swarm surface drone threats

July 8, 2026
Sailors assigned to the Small Craft Action Team aboard the USS Mount Whitney train on a deck-mounted weapon during an unmanned vessel swarm exercise in the Baltic Sea, June 13, 2026. A recent NATO exercise underscored the need to train sailors on detecting and countering surface drones, a potentially deadly threat to warships with limited defenses against the technology. (Chad M. Butler/U.S. Navy) Stripes

The Baltic Sea recently served to show Navy sailors how to spot and destroy deadly surface drones, whose devastating consequences for ships have been demonstrated from the Middle East to Crimea.

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