The US Navy destroyer USS Gravely had a close call with a Houthi missile in the Red Sea on Tuesday night, US officials told CNN.
The officials said a cruise missile launched by the Houthis came within one mile of the Gravely, the closest one has come to a US warship. That means the missile got past the Gravely’s sophisticated Aegis defense system.
The missile was downed by the Gravely’s Close-In Weapon System (CWS), a machine gun that’s designed for close-range interceptions and is one of the ship’s last lines of defense.
The incident highlights the danger to US warships and Navy sailors deployed in the Red Sea to combat the Houthis. While a Houthi missile or drone has not successfully hit a US warship yet, it could just be a matter of time as the situation in the region continues to escalate.
The US launched more strikes against the Houthis early Thursday morning Yemen time, marking at least the 12th time the US has bombed Yemen since President Biden started his new war against the Houthis on January 12. US Central Command claimed the strikes targeted a Houthi drone station.
The escalations continued throughout the day on Thursday as CENTCOM said it downed a Houthi drone and destroyed a drone boat. Later, the Houthis targeted a British-linked cargo vessel, but CENTCOM said the missiles impacted the water and did not hit the ship.
Since the US and the UK launched their first round of strikes against the Houthis, the situation has escalated dramatically. The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, began targeting American and British commercial shipping and have vowed their operations won’t stop until the US backs down and Israel’s slaughter in Gaza ends.
The US backed a Saudi/UAE-led coalition against the Houthis in a brutal war that killed 377,000 people between 2015 and 2022. During that time, the Houthis only became a more formidable fighting force and developed missile and drone technology that gave them the ability to hit Saudi oil infrastructure. A ceasefire between the Saudis and Houthis has held relatively well since April 2022, but the new US bombing campaign threatens the fragile truce.
Its as good a place to start another war as the Golf of Tonkin,911 or the Battleship Maine. Any flimsy excuse will do and off we go.
“The big loser in a closed Red Sea is Egypt, which depends on transit fees through the Suez Canal for as much as one-fourth of its currency earnings.”
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CENTCOM wouldn’t know if the missiles were guided into the water intentionally…!
Well of course CENTCOM would not know if the Houthis wasted a missile by crashing it into the sea. Why would Houthis do that? Each missile firing risk their troops because if the US detects the firing and has assets nearby, the guy firing the missile may not see the next sun rise.
Wow. Just imagine a machine gun on the warship saved the day. I imagine some twisted minds in the establishment would have rather that last line of defence didn’t work and got more troops killed or a warship destroyed so that they can march into Iran. That machine gun saved Iran, and the world!
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, began targeting American and British commercial shipping and have vowed their operations won’t stop until the US backs down and Israel’s slaughter in Gaza ends.
Thanks Dave. For some reason I only hear/see “Iranian backed” and they’re trying to disrupt shipping from our MSM. We should be having a parade for them. They can be in the float behind the one with Assange, Snowden, Manning….
“a parade for them”. Yea right. If they keep this up they are going to get a parade, and the floats will be filled with trinitrotoluene , cyclotrimethylene trinitramine and powder aluminum.
They’re trying to stop a genocide or as you call it, “mass collateral damage”, so yes, a parade. You stumped me on what that other shit is but I’m sure it goes boom. But I get it that you think they deserve to be bombed since you’ve made it known that you think stopping a genocide isn’t a noble thing to do.
They deserve to be bombed because they are shooting at US warships and trying to kill our sailors. Killing US troops is not the way to stopped the war.
Since I have extensive training in chemistry, I have a bad habit calling stuff by its chemical name. Just other day I asked the wife to pass the sodium chloride (AKA table salt.). I was not trying to stump or fool you. The first chemical is TNT and second RDX. Both high explosives. The last is an incendiary designed to raise the temperature and thus prolong the blast wave time.
Any dead sailors would be collateral damage. They’ve made their motive known. If the US quit funding and assisting Israel in their genocide on Gazza, the Houthis wouldn’t be targeting them. Pretty simple. One side is trying to stop a genocide and one side is trying to allow it to continue. So no, they don’t deserve to be bombed. They deserve accolades.
Economic warfare is a wonder to behold. Iran is so good at it.
Dave DeCamp is tryng to break some article publishing record or something.
He is definitely more focused on quantity than quality.
Most his products are one sided, unbalanced opinion pieces and half of that lacks relevance/significance.
So pretty much longer versions of your comments?
Except that I’m just a blogger and don’t represent nor write for any entity but myself.
Would be nice if instead of you stepping out on his defense, that he’d do it himself as Dave DeCamp.
It’s ok to be biased but don’t use a well known platform with a neutral name to advance your personal opinions that may or may not hurt the overall messaging.
Again, this blog has gone from normal to the likes of RT news. Full up Russian propaganda. How did I go from liking the website and feel like it shared my views to now I’m just the 1%.
I didn’t know I had to hate my own country and support dictators around the world to be part of the audience here.
What makes you think this comment section represents “the audience?” It’s a handful of people, almost all with axes to grind and trapped in never-ending confirmation bias loops.
Never ending confirmation bias loop is part of the fun. Commentors, including me, repeat the same message over and over again.
Here is a few over and over messages.
1. This one is on me: No 10/7 attack, no destruction of Gaza.
2. Zionists are the root of all the problems in Middle East.
3. Israel attack on USS Liberty was deliberate.
4. Russia attack on Ukraine was to stop genocide.
5 Israel attack on Gaza was to start genocide.
6 NATO is cause of problems in Europe. NATO bad, Russia good.
7 Israel has no right to self defense.
8 Israel should gas the GAZA tunnels.
9 Hyper missiles are super weapons that can destroy the US military.
10 And my favorite, this all going to lead to WW3 and our deaths.
I’ve spent some time looking into the attack on the USS Liberty. My conclusion is that even if the attack started as an accident, it went on for far too long to have remained an accident. If it wasn’t intentional, it quickly became a matter of trying to cover up the accident by eliminating the evidence.
I disagree. Every thing I read indicated a series of mistakes were made, including by the US Navy. The Israel PT boats were closing in for the final kill, when they realized the mistake and they called off the attack. If they want to “eliminate the evidence” they had their chance and did not take it. Why? Because Israel very existence was depended on the USA at the time. No one has every presented a logical reason why Israel would risk their existence by deliberating attack a US ship.
Fantastic. Awesome.
What is unbalanced about the article? I know it’s hard for you to do, but try and be specific.
He writing style caters people like you (not a Ukraine supporter and not anti war but anti US wars activist). You are his number one audience.
Which I find it interesting when bloggers like you here sometimes bash him for not being, i.e. too Pro Russia enough.
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Tom, I’m not even mad, I think it’s amazing. Great humor and love the rainbow next to Putin. Fits very well.
I’m saving this. Love it.
A more honest tittle would be,
Everyone who dislike me for supporting Ukraine is a Putin lover.
Don, You need to read the “about antiwar.com” to understand where Dave DeCamp is coming from. A direct quote from antiwar’s about page: “With every war, America has made a “great leap” into statism,” Translated, no matter what the US military does they are always wrong. That is their position.
Which is OK. The only thing misleading, IMO, is that website is mislabeled. A more accurate labeling would be “antiUSAwars”.
So when reading DeCamp’s articles, remember he is obligated to toss in a few anti US military and/or polices quotes.
That’s a great point and I totally agree with you. Thanks.
I think TLK would probably agree with that as well as he has made a few points similar to that.
I just hate to see a the antiwar movement being taken in the wrong direction.
See, I’ve been visiting this website since 2021.
A more accurate labeling would be “antiUSAwars”.
Tell us about the wars that are going on that the US isn’t directly, or indirectly, involved in. Simply shocking (/s) that antiwar.com would be signaling out the country that involves itself in damn near every conflict on the planet. Should I mention a defense budget that is more than the next 10 countries combined or the 800+ bases spread across the planet? This place would cease to exist if it weren’t for the good old US of A.
Wow. Just imagine a machine gun on the warship saved the day. I imagine some twisted minds in the establishment would have rather that last line of defence didn’t work and got more troops killed or a warship destroyed so that they can march into Iran. That machine gun saved Iran, and the world!
Technically is was a Gatling-style rotary cannon that shot down the missile.
“US Navy Ship Had Close Call with Houthi Missile in the Red Sea
The missile came within a mile of the USS Gravely”
Curious, I remember when the phrase ‘missed by a mile’ generally carried the exact opposite meaning of ‘close call’. And as the old adage wisely cautions, ‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’!