Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.
The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.
The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.
“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.
What a weird article leaving out very key information of the tanker being an israeli vessel
This video with too loud background music does a lot better a job of explaining what happened https://youtu.be/-VOF2v9cogI?si=V7Vm33fBIIBi5-Yb
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Aww it’s the USS Liberty sequel!
Israel loves pulling the US into war. It’s their national pisstime.
Edit: corrected the word passtime
“Pastime”
“Passtime” is both not a word and if it were it would mean something not what you are attending.
While we are at it,
It’s “Dog-eat-dog” not “doggy-dog” “Regardless” not “irregardless”
“Passtime” is also how snakes say it.
Fucking hate spelling Nazis on Lemmy. As a dyslexic person, it makes me slightly hate commenting.
Use a fucking spell checker then. They are free. Stop being a lazy dyslexic.
Fucking hate people who are too lazy to accomplish even the simplest of tasks.
Lol, I’m not keen on those who go out the way to act like venemous little toads.
Urp yurz.
Obviously. Lazy shit bags aren’t keen on doing anything. It’s all about you, right?
“Urp yurz” lol what does that even mean? “Urp derp” to you, too, I guess? Shit, I dunno. I don’t speak lazy dumbass.
Noi neid ta be leik DAT m8
Like I said, I don’t speak idiot, sorry.
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I wonder if conservatives are gonna run with this story and make the Houthis the next Supervillain Of The Month, or just slap the “rebel” tag on them and forget about it.
Well conservative have no idea what is going on. If they say the Houthi are bad then they cannot complain about Obama bombing them. If they say the are not bad, then Israil will be upset.
You or I would take those things into account, but remember: conservatives are extremely comfortable with hypocrisy.
They’ll just bring up Hunter’s laptop, Clinton’s emails, and some form of “Border crisis” down south.
don’t forget about the border crisis up north.
did you hear about the massive terrorist attack on the northern border that wasnt totally just a sad, and tragic car accident?
But it exploded! You know, like vehicles filled with large amounts of volatile fluids can do under the precise circumstances. It’s really really rare, but it absolutely CAN happen if the right things happen.
The Houthis are an Iranian proxy. The smart conservatives will know this and will incorporate it into their vilification efforts. The stupid ones don’t need anything like a reason or a plausible excuse.
Before anyone makes the obvious joke, it’s important to remember that yes, there ARE smart conservatives. Folks like me are used to making fun of MAGAts and their ilk, but don’t underestimate the conservatives higher up.
Balistic missles are not an ideal antiship weapon.
the high angle of attack reduces opportunity for intercept by all but the most advanced and expensive systems. it may seem counterintuitive, but we’re not dealing with 1960s ballistic missiles, we can now guide during terminal descent.
So these boston whaler based terrorists have precision guidance and a seeker of some sort? How do they target?
From the description though it seems like these ballistic missiles were about as technologically advanced as a firework.
yeah I have no doubt iran /whomever has a long long way to go in their development, just don’t want to see all ballistics derided because they change the intercept game mightily.
(Good) Terminal guidance really puts a limit on the speed though, which kind of negates the main advantage of using a ballistic missile (speed).
Even a good ballistic missile will be open for interception longer than say a low observability sea skimmer like LARASM.
“The missiles landed in the Gulf of Aden approximately ten nautical miles from the ships,"
Yeah… Not concerned at all.
B13… miss.
The US navy are just overreacting to extreme fishing.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.
The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.
“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.
Hours later, at 1:41 a.m. local time on Monday morning, two ballistic missiles were fired from areas controlled by Houthi rebels in Yemen “toward the general location” of the USS Mason and Central Park, the statement said.
A statement from Zodiac Maritime, which manages the Central Park, said Sunday the Liberian-flagged chemical tanker was safe “and all of the crew, the vessel, and cargo are unharmed.”
“We will continue to work with allies and partners to ensure the safety and security of international shipping lanes,” Kurilla said.
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So many wars to wage! So much money to make!
All because Israel, that country is as much of an ally as Pakistan.
This is about Saudi Arabia and Iran’s proxy war in Yemen, not Israel
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The Houthi hate the US for reasons other than Israel. They kind of view us as at the same level of Israel.
Well we have been selling arms to the Saudis for a proxy war that by now has led to the starvation death of children numbered at almost 100,000. Atleast it was around 70,000 a few years ago. So it must be more now
Yeah, death to America on their flag and all that. I’m talking about US presence in the sea.
The US navy combats piracy world wide. The destroyer’s response has nothing to do with it being an Israeli tanker.
The US would have responded the same for a large number of different counties’ ship if they were hijacked in a similar way.
US really needs to freedomize Yemen already
