The US Navy tested an advanced laser weapon near Yemen’s coast in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, destroying a floating target.
The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet said the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland “conducted a high-energy laser weapon system demonstration.” In 2020, the Portland tested the same weapon and successfully took down an aerial drone.
The US Navy chose the Portland to host and experiment with laser weapons in 2018. Media reports said the laser could be used to target drone boats that have been used by Yemen’s Houthis in the Red Sea since the test was conducted in the region.
With US support, Saudi Arabia’s navy has been enforcing a blockade on Yemen since Riyadh intervened in the country’s civil war back in 2015. The Houthis have attacked Saudi warships and tankers since the war started.
The Saudi-led war in Yemen has caused widespread disease and mass starvation. The UN recently said by the end of this year, 377,000 people will have died in the Yemen war. President Biden is still supporting the war despite his earlier vows to end support for Riyadh’s “offensive” operations in Yemen.
That image could’ve been straight from the cover of a sf novel just 20 years ago
Another way of killing people. Be proud America.
“The Saudi-led war on Yemen has caused widespread disease and mass starvation.”
Fixed
You mean, its not inevitable that humanity will grow up https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e5690ebbb094f336990dd6b1307a134ac8ce2b09f8dd8ec0118f0014d62c8786.jpg before our games end?
This is how a real democracy behaves, especially if the human rights, including the right to existence, of the poorest people in the region , are paramount.
Why off the coast of Yemen. Was it for the benefit of SAE?? (by the way, Yemen has a little bit of oil)