Yemen’s Houthis attacked two US destroyers with drones, ballistic missiles: Pentagon

Yemen’s Houthis attacked two US destroyers today with at least eight one-way attack drones, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three anti-ship cruise missiles, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a press briefing that the US military successfully downed them all.

Ryder also rejected the Houthi claim that they also targeted the US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, the USS Abraham Lincoln. No damage was recorded to the vessels, and no US personnel were hurt, Ryder added.

Over the weekend, the US military conducted multiple airstrikes on several Houthi weapons storage facilities in Yemen that contained advanced conventional weapons.

The Houthis, a Yemeni group that Biden removed from the terror blacklist only to redesignate them two years later, are the same group that has been recklessly firing at commercial and military vessels transiting international waters in and around the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.

Last month, bombers from the US conducted multiple air strikes on several underground Houthi weapons storage facilities inside Yemen. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said that US Air Force B-2 bombers conducted precision strikes against five hardened underground weapons storage locations in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.