Posted on 01/29/2024 6:01:26 AM PST by Red Badger
JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a U.S. Navy mobile base at sea Monday without offering evidence, something immediately rejected by an American defense official.
Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed the group fired a missile at the USS Lewis B. Puller in the Gulf of Aden. The Puller, which serves as a floating landing base, had been earlier stationed in the Arabian Sea as part of American efforts to curtail Houthi attacks on commercial shipping through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Houthi attacks will continue “until the aggression is stopped, and the siege is lifted on the people of Palestine in the Gaza Strip,” Saree said in the statement.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said there had been no reported attack on the Puller. However, the Houthis have previously launched missiles that did not reach their intended target, instead crashing onto the land or sea.
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Visually, the Houthis are limited to the horizon they can see from a flat coastline. They have radar in the more distant mountains. Apparently, the Iranians have stationed ships in the area to feed them targeting data. I’ll wager the radios on those ships aren’t working well due to targeted jamming. The idea the Houthis know which ship they are hitting is probably false. Targets they’ve hit all over the place including those ships having nothing to do with Israel.
Certainly, if I had a ship in the area, I’d turn off its locator beacon until I was well clear of the danger zone.
And I believe neither of them. What a world.
Wow they didn’t use any evidence to attack a US Navy ship? Unbelievable.
well it must in the place as the proof than Iran killed 3 Americans
A Perry class frigate? A floating sea base? Seems odd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lewis_B._Puller_(FFG-23)
That one was decommissioned in 1998............
level houti land now
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