Royal Navy’s new missile shoots drone down in first-of-its-kind operation

The Banshee drone deploying its parachute coming into land (The Royal Navy/Thales UK) -

The Royal Navy has used a new helicopter missile to shoot down a drone without outside assistance in a first-of-its-kind trial.

The force fired a Martlet missile from a Wildcat combat helicopter to take down a Banshee drone flying at hundreds of miles an hour over the Bristol Channel.