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.
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.
What’ll it be next? Attack helicopters!? /s
Get out of here with your tired identity humor.
All because Israel, that country is as much of an ally as Pakistan. Edit: For those that don’t know, the US was responding to the high jacking of a tanker owned by an Israeli billionaire. Israeli billionaires are using our military assets to protect their business
The tanker is owned by an Israeli billionaire family, dingus. Israeli businesses are using our military as their personal police.
US navy does indeed insure the safety of maritime travel and trade, as that is a net benefit for the US.
The Houthi hate the US for reasons other than Israel. They kind of view us as at the same level of Israel.
Yeah, death to America on their flag and all that. I’m talking about US presence in the sea. And that tanker is owned by a billionaire Israeli family business. Israel is using US as their personal police on top of the foreign aid they already receive, I’m fucking sick of it.
The US navy combats piracy world wide. The destroyer’s response has nothing to do with it being an Israeli tanker.
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.
I wonder if conservatives are gonna run with this story and make the Houthis the next Supervillain Of The Month, or just slap the “rebel” tag on them and forget about it.
They’ll just bring up Hunter’s laptop, Clinton’s emails, and some form of “Border crisis” down south.
don’t forget about the border crisis up north.
did you hear about the massive terrorist attack on the northern border that wasnt totally just a sad, and tragic car accident?
The Houthis are an Iranian proxy. The smart conservatives will know this and will incorporate it into their vilification efforts. The stupid ones don’t need anything like a reason or a plausible excuse.
Well conservative have no idea what is going on. If they say the Houthi are bad then they cannot complain about Obama bombing them. If they say the are not bad, then Israil will be upset.
