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Commander describes the moment a US Navy destroyer blasted an enemy drone out of the sky with a 5-inch deck gun
A US Navy destroyer operating in the Red Sea last year used its five-inch deck gun to shoot a Houthi drone out of the sky, a top commander revealed this week. The American destroyer, USS Stockdale ...
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An Arleigh-Burke Destroyer Shot Down Houthi Drones Using a 5-inch Gun
However, sailors aboard USS Stockdale (DDG-106) used their destroyer’s five-inch mounted gun to take down a Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle at the tail end of 2024. As described by Vice Adm.