
Task Force 59 (TF-59) tested live fire exercises with manned-unmanned teaming via the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship USS Indianapolis (LCS-17) in the Persian Gulf, the Navy said this week. This latest exercise, Digital Talon 2.0, is the second of its kind in two months. The Navy highlighted it conducted this manned-unmanned teaming by operating LCS-17 together with three unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and one unmanned aerial vehicle “to create a single common operating picture” or a mesh network, the Navy…