"Paul J. Adam" wrote:

:In message , Fred J. McCall
writes
wrote:
::That's because ships haven't had to deal with UAVs before.
:
:Air targets are air targets. Helicopters are neither trained nor
:equipped to do air intercepts.
:
:Perhaps not in the USN, but there *are* other navies...

Really? Who? Of course the French come close, but other than them?
:-)

The only reason I can come up with to be training helicopters to do
air intercept work is a total lack of any ship much larger than a
destroyer. That's not a navy....

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