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2024-01-07 Arabia
US military says it shot down another Houthi-launched drone over Red Sea
[IsraelTimes] Central Command says destroyer USS Laboon intercepted drone from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen as it approached ‘multiple commercial vessels’ in shipping route

US military forces shot down a drone early Saturday over the Red Sea in international waters near several commercial vessels, the Pentagon said.

The incident came days after a 12-nation group led by the US warned Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
against continuing their attacks on Red Sea shipping.

The US Central Command said in a social media post Saturday that "an unmanned aerial vehicle launched from Iranian-backed Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen was shot down in self-defense" by the USS Laboon, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.

It said no one was hurt.

The incident occurred in the southern Red Sea "in the vicinity of multiple commercial vessels," it said.

The Laboon, part of a carrier strike group deployed to the region shortly after the Israel-Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
war broke out, previously downed drones believed fired by the Houthi rebels.

The rebels have launched more than 100 drone and missile strikes toward targets in the Red Sea and Israel since the war erupted, according to Pentagon figures.

The Houthi attacks are endangering a transit route that carries up to 12 percent of global trade, prompting the United States to set up a multinational naval task force to protect Red Sea shipping.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-07 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top
 File under: Houthis 

#1 The problem is, what do you attack in a country that hasn't a pot to pee in?:
Yemen GDP Per Capita - Historical Data
GDP Per Capita (US $)
Annual Growth Rate (%)
2022 $677 12.13%
2021 $604 3.40%
2020 $584 -15.85%
2019 $694 -1.13%
Posted by Clereng Clavique6209 2024-01-07 07:46||   2024-01-07 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Correct. All that can be done is to carefully watch them in their role as iran proxies and use the missile and drone intercepts as valuable live fire training.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-07 07:57||   2024-01-07 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't suppose the drones from Iran arrive fully assembled. Is there a marshaling and deployment center that can be monitored?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-07 08:43||   2024-01-07 08:43|| Front Page Top

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