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2023-12-18 Arabia

Yemen has reportedly struck a US destroyer near the port of Berbera, Somaliland

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#1 USA can reduce Iran to 6th century in a week - how's it WWIII?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-18 01:17|| 2023-12-18 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Are We Finally Going to Hit the Houthis?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-18 01:22|| 2023-12-18 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Certainly not in that video.

Posted by Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 2023-12-18 01:54|| 2023-12-18 01:54|| Front Page Top

#4 As of now there are no reports of attack on the major US networks, BBC or JPost.

Posted by Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2023-12-18 07:41|| 2023-12-18 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Does not look like the fantail of any current destroyer of the USN.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Black6560 2023-12-18 08:18|| 2023-12-18 08:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Isn't there a couple of Russian ships in the area?

Posted by Silentbrick 2023-12-18 09:12|| 2023-12-18 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Maritime agencies report explosion off Yemen coast

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-18 09:20|| 2023-12-18 09:20|| Front Page Top

#8 My mediation effort would look like 50 inbound tomahawks. Make sure that the Iranian advisors are hanging with the Houthis at the time of delivery of the mediation offer.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-18 09:47|| 2023-12-18 09:47|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Excellent Supe. No warnings. Say nothing. No video of BDA. No press.

Must have been remote Amazonian Sintalistas.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-18 10:02|| 2023-12-18 10:02|| Front Page Top

#10 iran is the enemy. they declared war on the US in 1979. Occupy Chah Behar and sortie from there.

Posted by irish rage boy 2023-12-18 10:14|| 2023-12-18 10:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Nothing on FoxSnews or CNN yet. I'd expect that CNN would be running with this non stop and FoxSnews would have some of it's military experts on banging the war drums.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2023-12-18 10:34|| 2023-12-18 10:34|| Front Page Top

#12 The next phase will be having our ships escort the commercial ships until we discover that they have deployed Iranian mines with Iranian drones. USN - you can sacrifice our lives as long as the MidRats are high quality.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-18 10:42|| 2023-12-18 10:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Nobody seems to know anything about this yet...

Posted by ed in texas 2023-12-18 11:03|| 2023-12-18 11:03|| Front Page Top

#14 The lack of mainstream coverage makes me think something has happened.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-12-18 11:11|| 2023-12-18 11:11|| Front Page Top

#15 The vessel does not appear to be underway, and the photographic vessel also appears motionless, hugely inconsistent with active conflict?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-12-18 11:30|| 2023-12-18 11:30|| Front Page Top

#16 The US could wipe out the Houti threat but that would result in lots of civilian casualties. Given the Biden Admin's idiotic remonstrations to Israel this would look bad.

Also, having yet another live conflict begun under Biden would be an electoral liability, although at this point it would be like a papercut when you have cancer.

Posted by lord garth 2023-12-18 12:40|| 2023-12-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't see any sort of array above the con superstructure. The only US destroyer like that is Zumwalt. That isn't a Zumwalt.

Look us Saudi destroyers as well, didn't see a match. It has warship lines, but I don't see any whiskers or fangs.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-12-18 13:37|| 2023-12-18 13:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Going to bet video game footage.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-18 13:55|| 2023-12-18 13:55|| Front Page Top

#19 To me it looked like a planned sinking to create a reef.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-18 17:15|| 2023-12-18 17:15|| Front Page Top

#20 certainly has not made the news.

Posted by Chesney Sleting4519 2023-12-18 18:08|| 2023-12-18 18:08|| Front Page Top

#21 I think this is it, courtesy of Skidmark in another thread:

BP halts tanker journeys through the Red Sea as Norwegian oil vessel is attacked with rockets from Yemen and US sends in warship

Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-18 18:18|| 2023-12-18 18:18|| Front Page Top

#22 Maybe not - from TW's link - Operator Uni-Tankers said in a statement the crew had brought under control a small fire after the vessel was struck on its port side.

Dat wudn't no 'small fire' in the X-witter post.

Posted by Bobby 2023-12-18 18:25|| 2023-12-18 18:25|| Front Page Top

#23 Several US coast guard vessels in the area

Posted by Griter Slash1619 2023-12-18 18:58|| 2023-12-18 18:58|| Front Page Top

#24 Current surface activity in the area per schizointel https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1736767889561038941.html

Posted by Clem Elmish4239 2023-12-18 19:26|| 2023-12-18 19:26|| Front Page Top

#25 This thread is the other reason why Rantburg has been reported from time to time as seen in certain intelligence analysis quarters. And we do it at no cost to the budgets of the groups involved. :-)

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