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The Type-45 destroyer working with US warships repelled what Grant Shapps described as the largest attack yet from the Yemeni-based force. Royal Navy destroyer HMS Diamond shoots down Houthi ...
A recent Houthi attack had resulted in the damage of a school, per the outlet. Social media users are claiming to show Houthi missiles flying over Saudi Arabia to reach Israel. One user wrote ...
Given the challenges of successfully employing anti-ship ballistic missiles in general—and the challenges of attacking a U.S. Navy destroyer in particular—a failed attack wouldn’t be surprising.
In November, the destroyer deployed to the Persian Gulf to reinforce HMS Lancaster, the Royal Navy's guardship in the region. [57] On the night of 15 December 2023, Diamond shot down a suspected attack drone launched from a Islamist Houthi-controlled area of Yemen, targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea, with a Sea Viper (Aster) missile. [58]
Since 12 January 2024, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, [13] have launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes, codenamed Operation Poseidon Archer, against the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. [14]
The Houthis claimed responsibility for attacks on the destroyer USS Mason and a commercial ship they identified as Destiny. The attack on the destroyer was conducted with "an appropriate amount of naval missiles", while a combined attack was launched against Destiny in the Red Sea. The Houthis did not identify the date of the attacks, but the ...
A missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday killed three of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel, the U.S. military said.
The December 2015 Taiz missile attack was a strike carried out by the pro-Saleh Yemeni Army and Houthi militants with a Tochka ballistic missile against a military camp that was being used by troops of the Saudi-led coalition, south-west of the city of Taiz. The strike inflicted numerous casualties on the coalition forces. [1]