Houthi rebels have built up a "capability that only very few countries have," said Fabian Hinz of the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank.
On Sunday, the U.S. said there had been “four attacks against three separate commercial vessels operating in international waters in the southern Red Sea,” launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen.
Several drones were shot down by the U.S. warship, the USS Carney, as a series of missiles were fired from Houthi territory and damaged two of the cargo vessels, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
The Houthi rebels’ “anti-ship missile arsenal is not only comparable but superior to probably most state actors,” according to Fabian Hinz, a research fellow specializing in Middle East defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank.
“Such capabilities are highly unusual for an insurgency,” said Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at the U.K.'s Royal United Services Institute think tank.
Two of the cargo ships struck by Houthi missiles in the Red Sea on Sunday, the Unity Explorer and the Number 9, reported damage, CENTCOM said.
The USS Carney arrived in the region days after the Hamas attacks in the latter strike group “in order to deter any actor seeking to escalate the situation or widen this war,” CENTCOM said at the time.
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On Sunday, the U.S. said there had been “four attacks against three separate commercial vessels operating in international waters in the southern Red Sea,” launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen.
Several drones were shot down by the U.S. warship, the USS Carney, as a series of missiles were fired from Houthi territory and damaged two of the cargo vessels, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
The Houthi rebels’ “anti-ship missile arsenal is not only comparable but superior to probably most state actors,” according to Fabian Hinz, a research fellow specializing in Middle East defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank.
“Such capabilities are highly unusual for an insurgency,” said Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at the U.K.'s Royal United Services Institute think tank.
Two of the cargo ships struck by Houthi missiles in the Red Sea on Sunday, the Unity Explorer and the Number 9, reported damage, CENTCOM said.
The USS Carney arrived in the region days after the Hamas attacks in the latter strike group “in order to deter any actor seeking to escalate the situation or widen this war,” CENTCOM said at the time.
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