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Former Navy SEAL says Navy used autonomous speedboat to rescue downed pilots
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Former Navy Seal Details First Autonomous Rescue Mission Near the Strait of Hormuz
"There's downed American pilots in the straits of Hormuz. And they're like Corsair, which is our 24 foot fully autonomous speedboat. They said we're going to use that to rescue the pilots."
A former US Navy SEAL describes what he presents as a milestone operational decision: the US Navy authorising an autonomous surface vessel — a 24-foot speedboat he calls “Corsair” — to rescue downed American pilots in the Strait of Hormuz. He frames the episode as a shift from using uncrewed platforms for patrol or maritime awareness to deploying them for high-risk personnel recovery.
The speaker, who says he served 11 years in SEAL teams (2004–2015), argues the point of the mission was to recover personnel without sending additional troops into danger, contrasting it with a 2005 Afghanistan rescue attempt he says ended with a helicopter being shot down.
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