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Missile hits Red Sea container ship, US destroyers shoot down two more
The Guardian ^ | Dec 30, 2023

Posted on 12/30/2023 7:15:42 PM PST by rdl6989

An American destroyer shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired from Yemen Saturday as it responded to a call for help from a container ship that was hit separately, the US Central Command (Centcom) said.

Centcom said the US destroyers Gravely and Laboon responded to a request for assistance from the Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned and operated container ship that reported being struck by a missile while transiting the Red Sea.

While responding, missiles were launched toward the ships from territory controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Centcom said.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror; Yemen
KEYWORDS: bombahouthi; freight; houthis; iran; missiles; redsea; shipping; yemen
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1 posted on 12/30/2023 7:15:42 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

🤔


2 posted on 12/30/2023 7:21:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: rdl6989

Looks like Operation Globohomo Guardian not getting it done.


3 posted on 12/30/2023 7:21:29 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: rdl6989

Why is Yemen not being nuked from Space?


4 posted on 12/30/2023 7:22:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Or Iran? Iran is behind this.


5 posted on 12/30/2023 7:23:46 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: rdl6989

President Retard attacks the symptoms instead of the disease


6 posted on 12/30/2023 7:31:18 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: rdl6989

I hope the Navy has a plan to conserve its magazines of $1-2 million-dollar interceptor missiles (such as Standard, RAM & ESSM) against cheap Houhti missiles and drones.

This situation seems tailor-made for DEW, if only they had it operational on every combat ship.


7 posted on 12/30/2023 7:31:46 PM PST by JustaTech (My mind is the weapon. Everything else is tools.)
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"...anti-ship ballistic missiles...:

The sad state of journalism.

8 posted on 12/30/2023 7:34:05 PM PST by SunTzuWu
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To: NWFree

And Jimmy Carter placed the creeps into power in Iran. On the global stage, Jimmy Carter was the Village idiot.


9 posted on 12/30/2023 7:43:10 PM PST by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: SunTzuWu

That’s what CENTCOM called them.

https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1741259817602429357


10 posted on 12/30/2023 7:45:51 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: rdl6989

Destroying incoming missiles and drones is good, but better to also target and destroy the launch sites. Our satellites should give them exact coordinates. Since this is standard operating procedures in war, why aren’t we doing so???


11 posted on 12/30/2023 7:46:03 PM PST by elpadre
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To: Paladin2

Because eventually we’d be nuked from space.


12 posted on 12/30/2023 7:48:39 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: rdl6989

This entire defensive position with no offensive position is a loser.


13 posted on 12/30/2023 7:50:13 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: rdl6989

Instead of shooting down missiles, how about shooting where they are being launched? What am I missing?


14 posted on 12/30/2023 7:52:31 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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That they are fired from vehicles in a remote desert ?


15 posted on 12/30/2023 7:56:16 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Salman

Shooting who is causing them to be launched and extracting a price sufficient to deter further acts.


16 posted on 12/30/2023 7:57:01 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: elpadre

“Since this is standard operating procedures in war, why aren’t we doing so???”

That’s what they’re trying so hard to get us to do. Think it through — where do their weapons and training come from and whose objectives would be accomplished if we directly engaged that entity?


17 posted on 12/30/2023 8:02:07 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: rdl6989

If an Iranian oil installation was wiped out for each drone or missile launched they would end pretty quick but President Retard is too stupid


18 posted on 12/30/2023 8:02:59 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Salman

The fact that the Houthis are working for us.


19 posted on 12/30/2023 8:09:05 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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Why is Yemen not being nuked from Space?“

Because we have a lying, corrupt, C student with dementia as President


20 posted on 12/30/2023 8:13:09 PM PST by gibsonguy
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