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Moment 'Houthi drones' slam into enormous 750ft cargo ship sparking deadly explosion before vessel sank in latest attack in the Red Sea
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 20, 2024 | Elena Salvoni

Posted on 06/23/2024 11:05:44 AM PDT by C19fan

A 750ft cargo ship has sunk in the Red Sea days after Yemen's Houthi rebels said they launched a blistering drone attack on the vessel, reportedly killing one mariner on board.

Dramatic footage released by the group shows the moment a barrage of rockets slammed into the MV Tutor, with a direct hit triggering a huge explosion after striking the centre of the defenceless coal carrier.

It would be the second ship sunk as part of the rebels' campaign targeting Red Sea shipping after the Rubymar, which was carrying more than 41,000 tonnes of fertiliser, went down in March around two weeks after being struck by missiles.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Iran; Politics/Elections; War; Yemen
KEYWORDS: cargoship; fertilizer; greece; houthi; houthis; iran; islamofascism; islamofascists; jihad; jihadists; koranimals; mullahloversonfr; mvtutor; yemen
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To: shanover

You don’t need a Carrier Battle Group. A few wings of B-52s, dropping full loads of J-SOWS, from 40,000 feet, would settle the Houthi’s hash nicely. . .


41 posted on 06/23/2024 1:57:42 PM PDT by Salgak (This is a Triumph. I'm making a note here, Huge Success! It's hard to overstate, my satisfaction. )
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To: C19fan
...more than 41,000 tonnes of fertiliser, went down...

Wouldn't this tend to make the sea water a bit, shall we say, $#|++Y tasting?

42 posted on 06/23/2024 1:59:58 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: unread
And we're damned fools for putting up with it.!

BINGO!


43 posted on 06/23/2024 2:00:30 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Jean Lafitte fought the British at New Orleans. With his help, the US won a major victory.


44 posted on 06/23/2024 2:28:42 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: JayGalt

Wag the dog!


45 posted on 06/23/2024 3:06:40 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Trumpet 1

Billions more from China, with Traitor Joe’s tacit approval.


46 posted on 06/23/2024 4:33:30 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: C19fan

I want to know why hasn’t shipping in the Red Sea come to a complete halt. Has our government cut a deal with Lloyd’s of London to prop them up in case the losses become too much?


47 posted on 06/23/2024 4:45:48 PM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: Highest Authority

“Way back in my day, this was an act of war!”

Even than not our war. How is a Liberian registered/flagged ship, owned by a company in Athens Greece , crewed by Filipinos and Chinese even remotely an act of war against the USA requiring us to commit billions of American dollars worth of assets and risk 5000+ lives in a carrier for 12 century goat humpers sinking a ship that’s not even remotely American. If the Greece Navy or the Liberian Navy wants to get froggy by all means jump but keep the USA out of it.


48 posted on 06/23/2024 5:03:52 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: shanover

The TV says it’s Iran funding them. Do you believe the TV?


49 posted on 06/23/2024 5:15:04 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: shanover

No carrier group was in the area.

One that was already extended was finally ordered to return home, and one in Japan was changing home ports and is en route, but there was a gap because of our “brilliant strategies” in the DEI Navy.


50 posted on 06/23/2024 5:43:29 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: C19fan

It took two weeks to sink? Did I read that correctly? If so, the ship could have easily been saved with some fairly minor damage control.


51 posted on 06/23/2024 6:02:38 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Gender dysphoria is now a federally protected mental illness.)
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To: BobL

“..Bummer that we no longer have any influence over ‘Putin’ to hold Iran back. Kind of think it may have something to do with ‘Ukraine policy’, but then again, no, no way, the two are TOTALLY UNRELATED. LOL!....”

With the Ukrainian authorization to use U.S. manufactured missiles to strike deep inside Russia, it would not be the least bit surprising to see these Houthi rebel POSs to somehow end up with a handful of state-of-the-art hypersonics to deal with the next carrier or any other warships, showing up in the area. You know; the old tit for tat thingy.
Meanwhile, old slow Joe may even desire be a secret Houthi himself.....LOL


52 posted on 06/23/2024 7:59:47 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: lgjhn23

“With the Ukrainian authorization to use U.S. manufactured missiles to strike deep inside Russia, it would not be the least bit surprising to see these Houthi rebel POSs to somehow end up with a handful of state-of-the-art hypersonics to deal with the next carrier or any other warships, showing up in the area.”

Yep, that’s my fear. We’ll blame Iran, but of course we know where the rut of the problem is, and that’s DC (and the Zeepers).


53 posted on 06/23/2024 8:03:49 PM PDT by BobL
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To: lgjhn23
it would not be the least bit surprising to see these Houthi rebel POSs to somehow end up with a handful of state-of-the-art hypersonics to deal with the next carrier or any other warships, showing up in the area.

Eh not that likely. Most of their arsenal is older ballistic missiles, some anti-ship ones, and not much intelligence. They don't have the real-time targeting capability to make efficient use of fancy missiles on a maneuvering target. Probably don't have the tech to really support the systems it needs either.

Supposedly Iran gave them some hypersonics a while ago, but who knows if those even fly, or may e they were referring to the ballistic missiles...
54 posted on 06/24/2024 12:57:24 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Blood of Tyrants
It took two weeks to sink? Did I read that correctly? If so, the ship could have easily been saved with some fairly minor damage control.

The first sentence in the excerpt says it sunk "days" after a big rocket barrage. So not quite weeks... And these ships don't usually have much damage control, they aren't warships that expect to take missiles and torpedoes. They might have a couple fire hoses and a lifeboat..
55 posted on 06/24/2024 1:18:26 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

I guess you’re right but a salvage crew could have been flown in.


56 posted on 06/24/2024 8:20:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Gender dysphoria is now a federally protected mental illness.)
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