Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.
The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.
The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.
“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.
What a weird article leaving out very key information of the tanker being an israeli vessel
This video with too loud background music does a lot better a job of explaining what happened https://youtu.be/-VOF2v9cogI?si=V7Vm33fBIIBi5-Yb
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Yup, what the heck is going on there. There’s this one comment about how the U.S got technologically surpassed and I’m just thinking “even if it’s true, they have nukes. Who will ever test them??”
Aww it’s the USS Liberty sequel!
Israel loves pulling the US into war. It’s their national pisstime.
Edit: corrected the word passtime
“Pastime”
“Passtime” is both not a word and if it were it would mean something not what you are attending.
While we are at it,
It’s “Dog-eat-dog” not “doggy-dog” “Regardless” not “irregardless”
Fucking hate spelling Nazis on Lemmy. As a dyslexic person, it makes me slightly hate commenting.
Use a fucking spell checker then. They are free. Stop being a lazy dyslexic.
Fucking hate people who are too lazy to accomplish even the simplest of tasks.
What’ll it be next? Attack helicopters!? /s
Get out of here with your tired identity humor.
Way to sensationalize, just call it a missile no need to evoke the thought of an icbm.
It’s probably a sayyad anti ship missile, ciws would murder them things unless mass fired which they don’t have the resources for.
Isn’t there two types of missiles? The distinction matters, why would you assume it’s intercontinental based off of the type of missile? Cruise or ballistic can both be intercontinental.
It just means they follow a ballistic trajectory instead of direct fire like a tow missile.
It doesn’t really matter no, they’re just trying to make it sound scary. You gotta remember like half or more of the population won’t know that and don’t have the critical thinking to look it up.
Fun fact in this case it’s a ballistic and a cruise missile. Likely a sayyad version of the qud missile which is itself likely a recased version of an Iranian missile.
How are they trying to make it sound scary? They are literally just telling you the type of missle. Cruise vs ballistic. Anything else is in your head.
People don’t need to look anything up, it’s not denoted as intercontinental, so why would you assume that?
You’re the one trying to make it sound scary lmfao. The article is fine and don’t claim critical thinking when you’re lacking it yourself. People aren’t going to assume icbm since it wasn’t ever mentioned until you did….
“If a shitty home-made missile’s engine fails half way through flight then technically it’s ballistic from that point on.” - shitty reporter.
Balistic missles are not an ideal antiship weapon.
the high angle of attack reduces opportunity for intercept by all but the most advanced and expensive systems. it may seem counterintuitive, but we’re not dealing with 1960s ballistic missiles, we can now guide during terminal descent.
From the description though it seems like these ballistic missiles were about as technologically advanced as a firework.