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The USS Carney shot down at least three Houthi drones headed in the ship’s direction in the southern Red Sea on Sunday and responded to a distress call from a civilian commercial vessel that was fired upon by a ballistic missile, a US defense official said.

The drones were part of four attacks against three separate commercial vessels launched by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, US Central Command said in a statement Sunday evening. It’s unclear whether the USS Carney was a target of the drones.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Y'all got enough toilet paper stocked for WW3?

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

I went a step farther, during the great TP shortage of 2020 I finally installed bidets in the house. I still use TP to dry but that could easily be replaced with some wash cloths or something.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

That picture though, looks like the ship is rusting away.

[–] Linechecker@monero.town 5 points 11 months ago

So, the rebels are turning the Red Sea into a war zone. This will make freight insurance either sky rocket or be non existent. Very very bad news. Many economies depend on this area for freight shipments for trade.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The USS Carney shot down at least three Houthi drones headed in the ship’s direction in the southern Red Sea on Sunday and responded to a distress call from a civilian commercial vessel that was fired upon by a ballistic missile, a US defense official said.

At roughly 9:15 a.m. local time, the Carney “detected an anti-ship ballistic missile attack fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the M/V Unity Explorer,” US Central Command said.

The missile landed in the ship’s vicinity; the Carney — an Arleigh-Burke class destroyer deployed as part of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group — was patrolling in the Red Sea at the time.

“They have jeopardized the lives of international crews representing multiple countries around the world,” the statement said, noting that while these attacks were launched by Houthis in Yemen, the US has reason to believe they were “enabled by Iran.”

And roughly a week ago, two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen toward the USS Mason in the Gulf of Aden, after it responded to a distress call from another commercial tanker that had come under attack by five armed individuals believed to be Somali.

Sunday’s attacks also come just a day after aircraft from the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group intercepted an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle operating “in an unsafe and unprofessional manner” in the Persian Gulf.


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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

the US has reason to believe they were “enabled by Iran.”

And paid for by Putin. He needs as many distractions for the west as he can get right now.