A Navy Drone Boat Pulled Two Soldiers from the Gulf. The US Military Has Never Done That Before. (opens in new tab)

When a US Army Apache helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, it was an unmanned Navy surface drone — part of Task Force 59, the military's first AI-integrated maritime task force — that found the crew in the water. It was the first combat rescue of its kind ever conducted by the US military.