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The Navy has a new ship-killer missile to take on China - and it just used it to sink an old warship
The Navy has a new ship-killer missile to take on China - and it just used it to sink an old warship
Oct 3, 2019, 03:04 IST
This is the first time a NSM has been deployed to the 7th Fleet area of responsibility, and the Gabrielle Giffords is the first LCS to deploy with an NSM on board.
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An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter fired Hellfire missiles at the USS Ford.
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The Gabrielle Giffords is the first LCS to perform an integrated NSM mission in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Navy follows very specific protocols when performing a so-called SINKEX.