{"id":1505582,"date":"2024-12-02T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1505582"},"modified":"2024-12-02T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T23:05:00","slug":"us-warships-successfully-combat-missile-attack-on-merchant-vessels-in-critical-maritime-chokepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-warships-successfully-combat-missile-attack-on-merchant-vessels-in-critical-maritime-chokepoint\/1505582\/","title":{"rendered":"US Warships “Successfully” Combat Missile Attack On Merchant Vessels In Critical Maritime Chokepoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Warships “Successfully” Combat Missile Attack On Merchant Vessels In Critical Maritime Chokepoint<\/span><\/p>\n

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The US Central Command (CENTCOM) released a statement<\/a> late Sunday night detailing how two US Navy destroyers intercepted missiles and drones targeting three US merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden near the Bab al-Mandab Strait, one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints.<\/p>\n

According to CENTCOM, two Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, USS Stockdale (DDG 106) and USS O’Kane (DDG 77), successfully neutralized ran-backed Houthi-launched missiles and kamikaze drones. These included three anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), three one-way attack uncrewed aerial systems (OWA UAS), and one anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM), aimed at a flotilla of three US-owned, operated, and flagged merchant vessels transiting the Gulf of Aden over the weekend.<\/p>\n

“The destroyers were escorting three U.S.-owned, operated, flagged merchant vessels, and the reckless attacks resulted in no injuries and no damage to any vessels, civilian or US Naval,”\u00a0CENTCOM said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center (UKMTO),\u00a0which monitors Middle Eastern waterways, reported an “attack”<\/a> on a vessel approximately 80 nautical miles south of Aden, Yemen.<\/p>\n

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There is no word if the vessel attack\u00a0UKMTO reported on Sunday morning was related to the missile and drone attack on US merchants and warships.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0X accounts focused on open-source intelligence showed several fixed-wing US or allied military assets operating in the skies near the incident area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OVERLORD02 #USNavy<\/a> MQ4C TRITON #UAV<\/a> active Gulf of Aden, returned to UAE 1237zhttps:\/\/t.co\/sx9LUbeiif<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sp35y9TQ0P<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 nde (@5472_nde) December 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

P8 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf2#AE6844<\/a>
\nOver the Gulf of Aden @Borrowed7Time<\/a> @HusseinSalmanQ<\/a> @SR_Planespotter<\/a> @N214WN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CzxsPU5tWq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 1776Girl (@sipjack1776) December 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Institute’s Noam Raydan<\/a> reported in October that\u00a0Houthi rebels launched\u00a080 attacks<\/a> on commercial ships in the critical maritime chokepoint in the southern Red Sea, sinking two ships and killing four sailors. This has since sparked a global supply chain crisis, pressuring container rates higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In recent days, the\u00a0Syrian proxy war<\/a>, which never truly ended, flared up again, as the world is on fire under a weak Biden-Harris regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 12\/02\/2024 – 13:05<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-warships-successfully-combat-missile-attack-merchant-vessels-critical-maritime<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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