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U.S. Navy Shoots Down 12 Houthi Drones and Five Missiles in One Day
Breitbart ^ | 12/27/2023 | JOHN HAYWARD

Posted on 12/27/2023 10:34:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Tuesday that the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen launched a massive barrage of drones and missiles at Israel, only to see their weapons intercepted and destroyed by the guided missile destroyer USS Laboon and F/A-18 fighters from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier battle group.

CENTCOM said U.S. forces “shot down twelve one-way attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles, and two land attack cruise missiles in the Southern Red Sea that were fired by the Houthis over a 10 hour period.”

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KEYWORDS: drones; missiles; navy; shoots
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Thanks a lot diaper brain for all this fun
1 posted on 12/27/2023 10:34:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope to hear thrilling tales of destroyed launch sites, launchers, and missile stockpiles in the near future.


2 posted on 12/27/2023 10:37:26 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“shot down twelve one-way attack drones”

The kamikaze of the 21st century


3 posted on 12/27/2023 10:37:31 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joe Biden needs World War III as a distraction from his disastrous Residency

The terrorists are seizing the opportunity with Joe


4 posted on 12/27/2023 10:38:51 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BradyLS

“I hope to hear thrilling tales of destroyed launch sites, launchers, and missile stockpiles in the near future”

With THAT lot running the pentagon?......,not bloody likely.

Isreal maybe...and not even them if resident taterhead has a say.


5 posted on 12/27/2023 10:39:56 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How much did our missiles cost to destroy their radio shack drones?


6 posted on 12/27/2023 10:42:53 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: BradyLS

You can be sure that the launch sites are 100% located in and around schools, hospitals and baby milk factories. To me, that is immaterial. Collateral damage is on the muzzie cowards.


7 posted on 12/27/2023 10:43:26 AM PST by Migraine
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To: ChicagoConservative27

...Four Calling Birds, three French Hens, Two Turtle Doves, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!...........


8 posted on 12/27/2023 10:47:38 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: V_TWIN
“I hope to hear thrilling tales of destroyed launch sites, launchers, and missile stockpiles in the near future”

With THAT lot running the pentagon?......,not bloody likely.

Isreal maybe...and not even them if resident taterhead has a say.

The Saudi's have been trying to appease and normalize relations with Iran and it's Houthi proxies of late, so I'm sure they are pressuring the State Department not to bring the hammer down on them.

9 posted on 12/27/2023 10:50:02 AM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: Blue Highway

Harpoons are now $2 million plus, and the F18 cost more than $30,000 per hour to operate.


10 posted on 12/27/2023 10:52:13 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Blue Highway

That’s a very good point.


11 posted on 12/27/2023 10:54:31 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But I thought Trump was supposed to be able to start WWIII? Is he disappointed that he can’t?


12 posted on 12/27/2023 10:58:30 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Sparticus

“The Saudi’s have been trying to appease and normalize relations with Iran and it’s Houthi proxies of late, so I’m sure they are pressuring the State Department not to bring the hammer down on them.”

In time, we’ll discover the actual motivation behind that, too.

Why we aren’t aren’t carpet bombing those launch sites is beyond me.


13 posted on 12/27/2023 11:00:01 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many missiles do these ships carry? At some point they will need to reload especially if the pace of attacks continue.


14 posted on 12/27/2023 11:04:36 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Great. Now how about exterminating them?


15 posted on 12/27/2023 11:16:16 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where are the Freepers who said that surface ships are doomed?


16 posted on 12/27/2023 11:16:51 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Send the goat herders a bill, if they don’t pay it in 30 days, send in the BUFFs.


17 posted on 12/27/2023 11:51:16 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Followed soon by “shortage of missiles remaining to US Mediterranean region forces now hampers US against onslaught by Iran and allies.”

Time for China to float more balloons that require missiles to shoot them down.

Old Time Magazine:
In the afternoon, officials said, one of the F-22s soared to an altitude of around 58,000 feet, firing an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile toward the balloon floating less than 10,000 feet above it. The supersonic, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile screeched over the Atlantic, popping the balloon and sending it into the sea.


18 posted on 12/27/2023 11:58:49 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

Yup. And here’s an idea: Destroy the source of the drones. If source is unknown, take out a major city. We continue to play patty-cake with these animals and we are the world’s laughingstock. I’m embarrassed to be an American anymore.


19 posted on 12/27/2023 12:29:40 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: BradyLS

I want to hear Hamas is defunct!


20 posted on 12/27/2023 1:06:04 PM PST by GailA (Land Grabs, poisoned food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION.)
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