US Navy warships can defeat exploding naval drones today, but these deadly systems are evolving

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Archer Macy, a retired US Navy admiral who served aboard multiple warships, said one way to protect warships in port -- something Russia failed to adequately do in the past but appears to be looking at more closely -- is to string anti-torpedo netting between two buoys at the surface level.
50% : "Over the past 18 months, two types of drones have emerged as weapons of an asymmetrical style of naval warfare put on display in Europe and the Middle East: unmanned surface vehicles, or USVs, and unmanned underwater vessels, or UUVs.USVs, especially the ones in Ukraine's arsenal, are essentially just speedboats packed with explosives that an operator can drive -- remotely and from a distance -- into another vessel and detonate.

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