US Navy Destroyer and Fighters Engage
17 Houthi Missiles and Drones
Red State,
by
Streiff
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
12/27/2023 12:22:50 AM
US Navy destroyer and several F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters shot down a total of 17 Houthi drones and missiles during a tense 10-hour engagement over the southern Red Sea. Details of the engagement are sparse, but the Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58), a member of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group (CSG), as well as several F/A-18 launched from the Eisenhower shot down 12 attack drones, three-antiship missiles and two land attack missiles. The engagement began at 6:30 a.m. local time Tuesday and continued for ten hours. None of the attacking weapons hit a target.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mean Gene 12/27/2023 12:52:52 AM (No. 1624742)
Iran wins.
Americans and Yemeni soldiers die.
American and Iranian elites skim profits off the sales of weaponry.
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We went to great lengths over a period of many years to starve the secondary parts market of F-14 components and render those aircraft that remained in Iran's inventory inoperable. That's now paying dividends. While their ballistic missiles and drones are a nuisance to our G-ships in the area (we're better at targeting and destroying them than they are at launching), a Tomcat on a suicide mission, screaming in at Mach 2 and less than 100 feet off the deck would represent a much more formidable challenge.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/27/2023 1:52:11 AM (No. 1624749)
gee...seems I have heard a term before describing an all day land/air/sea military confrontation between several countries/nations/groups.
It was "WAR!"
I guess that doesn't apply here because no one was trespassing in a public building, known as the "Peoples House", which is the NEW definition of "Literally War"
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
valinva 12/27/2023 2:55:27 AM (No. 1624758)
What is the cost of the missiles we are using to hit the incoming drones and missiles? Is it 5K, 10K, 500K each? We know where the missiles and drones are coming from and where the Houthis are located. We should pre-emptively destroy all of the launch sites and Houthi Rebels along with it. Send a message they will not forget. Or maybe the Biden administration is afraid of domestic attacks here at home because they know that terror cells controlled by Iran have come in though our porous open border and doesn't want to stir the pot.
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One of Joe Biden's first acts was to remove the U.S. designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization. This is our reward for three years of Biden's appeasement of the Houthis.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Amoeba 12/27/2023 5:20:41 AM (No. 1624784)
The prophecy of war in Ps 83 is materializing as we watch. This is part of the Last Days of history.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/27/2023 5:39:21 AM (No. 1624787)
As long as America has Socially promoted Affirmative Action asshats as Secy of Defense, Stupidity will reign and America will lose. Iran's Refineries are the Target which will put them out of business!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 12/27/2023 6:10:36 AM (No. 1624790)
A real leader would have leveled the launch sites. Followed by going after the source.
We can’t afford to continuously shoot down cheap drones and ballistic missiles with high dollar defensive weaponry.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lazyman 12/27/2023 7:07:05 AM (No. 1624815)
Why is it I have problems believing any press releases?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 12/27/2023 7:29:25 AM (No. 1624825)
You'd think they will figure out where the missiles are launched.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/27/2023 8:28:39 AM (No. 1624860)
Democrats voted for this.
We were at peace and making treaties in the Middle East under our former President.
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It seems the US position is "Don't hurt me! Please don't hurt me!". Trickle-down Bidenism.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/27/2023 9:26:55 AM (No. 1624908)
Did they target the launch bases?
If not, all you're doing is training the terrorists on how to evade our defenses.
Hit them! Kill them!! Identify where they keep their weapons for resupply and hit them!
Teach them using weapons against us is suicide.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/27/2023 10:07:27 AM (No. 1624954)
I thought we had a big bad Corn Pop beating, I'll take Trump outside, belligerent fight everyone squatter in the white house, but it appears that might have been a lie!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jimkata 12/27/2023 12:22:51 PM (No. 1625077)
When 911 happened there was a ohh sh**t moment when the world realized that it had gone too far and the US was going to do everything it could to defend the US. That faded when it was realized Bush was avenging his father's attempted assassination by Hussein not really going after Bin Laden. That became secondary. When they let him escape when they had them trapped in the tunnels in Afghanistan and then waited, the world breathed a sigh of relief...... Back to normal US.
But here conditions are again for a bad terrorist attack. If Trump gets in, there will be no moderation in the US response this time..
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Scribelus 12/27/2023 1:04:13 PM (No. 1625108)
So long as America’s Commander-in-Chief remains a grifting traitor the downward spiral will accelerate.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 12/27/2023 1:38:39 PM (No. 1625146)
Excellent opportunity for sharpening their training. Free targets.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JackBurton 12/27/2023 3:07:10 PM (No. 1625196)
Sure, shoot down the drones and missiles...
...but then shoot up the Houthis.
Why be half, er, butted?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/28/2023 7:15:50 AM (No. 1625471)
If America had a REAL Secy of Defense, the Houthis wouldn't have any missiles to shoot and Iran wouldn't have any oil refineries! We can thank, whomsoever started social promotion and Affirmative Action for the dead and wounded in the Middle East!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Mad Dog 12/28/2023 8:04:44 AM (No. 1625495)
A $2M missile vs. a $2,000 drone: Pentagon worried over cost of Houthi attacks
“That quickly becomes a problem because the most benefit ... is in their favor,” one expert said.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/28/2023 10:40:58 AM (No. 1625609)
WE are at war!!....and Iran is our enemy....no matter how many puppets they send in...it's all Iran!!
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Meanwhile, FJB is sending plane loads of cash to Iran so that they may supply more arms for theYemeni rebels to attack global shipping.
Brilliant plan Joe.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 12/28/2023 2:57:20 PM (No. 1625750)
Our latest "Gulf of Tonkin"?
Hey kids! Join the military now and beat the rush! Another nation-building occupation is just around the corner!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
HotPatty 12/28/2023 7:44:41 PM (No. 1625869)
Why don't we introduce them to a dozen B-52's and stop this bullshit? Ans: .. FJB
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Geoman 12/28/2023 8:38:16 PM (No. 1625904)
Iran's main naval base on the Persian Gulf is located in the city of Bandar Abbas. A squadron of F/A-18 Hornets could eliminate the base and other nearby strategic assets in what would be a "proportionate" response to Iran's use of proxy pirates and terrorists who are crimping the world's shipping trade, forcing container ships to forego the Red Sea and Suez Canal, adding time and cost, as ships have to steam around South Africa, adding 4300 miles to shipping from the Mediterranean Sea and ports in India and other Southeast Asian ports. Running away or slapping the wrists of our self-avowed enemy rulers in Yemen is no deterrent at all. Carpet bombing the Yemeni cities of Sana'a and its pirate port at Aden would also be "proportionate" and would curb current Yemeni behavior; however, Iran is the main culprit and Biden's failure to address Iran as the root cause of modern day piracy at sea and should be grounds for impeachment and removal. Such a message should also deter Iran from pursuing and using nuclear weapons, as the message of destroying their main naval port city should logically emphasize the vulnerability of Teheran to a U.S. conventional and/or nuclear strike if the Iranians insist on playing hard ball. Bold definitive action is called for but the only boldness shown by the Biden administration is in threatening American citizens who disagree with the priorities and tactics of our current regime, which appears hell-bent on further degrading our military capabilities with it's woke silliness.
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