The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely intercepted anti-ship ballistic missiles headed toward the commercial ship Maersk Detroit Wednesday. This is the first attack by the Houthis in six days.

The targeting of another U.S.-owned commercial ship Wednesday shows the militant group remains intent on continuing its attacks in the face of multiple rounds of U.S. military airstrikes.

The Houthis launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at the U.S.-owned, flagged and operated commercial ship Maersk Detroit as it was transiting the Gulf of Aden, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely shot down two missiles and a third fell into the water. There were no indications of damage or injuries in the attack.

The U.S. military has been conducting airstrikes against the Houthis to degrade their capabilities since Jan.11, after several weeks of attacks on commercial ships by the militant group.

  • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4521·
    2 years ago

    So instead of fucking off, they’re still fucking around. Well, there’s plenty of Find Out to go around.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      414·
      2 years ago

      Oh wait, I thought your comment was about American cargo ships. I’m like “fuck yeah! That’s punk rock, they should respect the protest (mostly cause the protest comes with missiles) and go around. Never cross a pocket line, bruv” but I think I misread the situation.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1935·
      2 years ago

      Yeah because more military action is going to stop terrorism! Have people learned NOTHING from the Bush administration and the wars they started??

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          911·
          2 years ago

          I don’t know. I don’t have to in order to recognize the fact that military action only exacerbates the problem by making it easier to radicalize the people whose loved ones are killed, though.

          • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            53·
            2 years ago

            Normally I’d agree, but the Houthis can stop all hostilities by stopping attacking international trade vessels. That isn’t a difficult ask. They can even try to use this as leverage to get other things they want.

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              46·
              2 years ago

              the Houthis can stop all hostilities by stopping attacking international trade vessels.

              Yeah, that’s bullshit. A Saudi-led coalition has been bombing the shit out of them with American weapons for several years now.

              I don’t in any way condone terrorism under any circumstances, but to pretend that there’s not been any previous acts of oppressive violence to radicalize them is as unhelpful as it is (wilfully?) ignorant.

              • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
                32·
                2 years ago

                I don’t disagree there, but this is what I meant by leverage. “We’ll stop attacking if you stop helping the Saudis”. It wasn’t too long ago that the Houthis actually considered the US as a friendly state.

                • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  34·
                  2 years ago

                  Wilfully ignorant it is.

                  There’s no way the US government is ever going to make any such deal, much less honor it.

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
        210·
        2 years ago

        You do realize that Americans get boners from this, right? Americans LOVE getting attacked so they can use their billions of dollars worth of weapons that they’ve been hoarding. Then resell it.