The USS Gravely (DDG 107) sails alongside the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) during maneuvering exercises with the Finnish Navy in the Baltic Sea, May 16, 2022. (U.S. Navy, by MC3 Taylor Parker)
The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen announced on January 31 that they had fired “several” anti-ship missiles at a United States warship in the Red Sea.
“The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, fired several… naval missiles at the American destroyer USS Gravely in the Red Sea,” Houthi spokesman, Brigade General Yahya Sare’e, said in a statement.
The spokesman noted that the group will continue to target Israel-affiliated ships in the Red and Arabian seas “until a ceasefire is achieved, and food and medicine are allowed into the besieged Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
Earlier, the U.S. Central Command said the USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, shot down a Houthi missile late on January 30.
“Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired one anti-ship cruise missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the Red Sea,” the command said in a brief statement posted on the X social platform, previously known as Twitter.
“The missile was shot down by USS Gravely. There were no injuries or damage reported,” it added
The USS Gravely was the second U.S. Navy vessel to be targeted by the Houthis in less than a week. On January 29, the Houthis said that they had fired a missile at the USS Lewis B. Puller, an expeditionary mobile base vessel. U.S. defense officials denied that the vessel was hit, however.
The Houthis have targeted dozens of Israel-affiliated vessels and others owned by the U.S. and the UK since November 19 in response to the ongoing Israeli war and siege on Gaza, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 26,000 Palestinians.
In response, the U.S. and the UK carried out dozens of strikes on military targets in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in recent weeks. Despite this, the group, which is backed by Iran, remains undeterred.
iran likely provided the missiles or technology but who is providing the location of the ships? not radars because they’d be destroyed, is that from iranian satellites or from other source?
almost all ships and now even a row boat can have a radar with gps that could locate the warships for under 1500 usd
that’s why they never meet
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sooner or later the houthis will get lucky, as warships only have a limited supply of missiles.
nádej umiera posledná, bárs by si mal pravdu. ale to by ich museli najskôr zamestnať ochranou iných plavidiel, aby minuli svoje zásoby munície.
1 is no good, they need to send 20 arriving simultaneously, overload the defence
“a drone a day keeps the israel commercial ships away”. the objective is block the red sea to israel and allies commercial ships. not to escalate by damaging a us warship and fight with the monster usa head on. this keeps financial pressure on us and israel ally egypt and israel. perfect campaign by the yemenis, very smart. remember vietnam a 30 years war for liberation.
true, but the psychological factor of the houthis hitting a us warship, or if it was one of their precious carriers would send shock waves in the pentagon.
už by konečne mohli a aj mali potopiť aspoň jedno plavidlo usa!!! nech je trochu viac zábavy. takto to vyzerá ako by boli neschopní. rus by im mohol niečo poriadne na to dodať, ako odplatu za dodávanie zbraní na ukrajinu. aby sa váhy trochu vyrovnali. svetu mier!!!
nope. perfect gorilla campaign by the yemenis against israel, egypt and nato europe logistics, increasing prices and stress in those countries. the red sea is still blocked to commercial shipping. no point to fight the monster usa head on. the monster usa, with mad bloodthirsty israel, has dropped the equivalent of 2 atomic bombs on gaza. no point to give them an excuse to do the same to yemen.
the houthi’s will not stop until they get some successes, and then they will carry on regardless. the us and nato has earned the hate of the people of yemen. in the end it will all come down to missiles, and how many each side has. one thing is for certain, one day one of these houthi missiles is gong to reach its target.
its time for the slimey limeys to go down to davey jonse’s locker
arrrgh me hearties, there aint nuthin quite like shooting $5 million missiles against $500 rockets
mashallah houthis mashallah