US warships come under strike in Red Sea as incoming missiles. drones sboiling down

Three U.S. warships came under strike Friday off the coast of Yemen by Iran-backed Houthi resists, who have disturbed commercial shipping in the region, but no one was hurt, officials said. 

The warships sboiling down csurrfinisherly two dozen incoming missiles and drones while transiting a skinny enthrall into the Red Sea. None of the vessels was hit, and no sailors on board were hurt, a U.S. official tbetter Fox News. 

The USS Stockdale and USS Spruance, aextfinished with a littoral combat ship, the USS Indianapolis, were transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait when the naval warships came under strike from a barrage of incoming balcatalogic missiles, cruise missiles and drones, the officials said.

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“We did see a complicated strike begined from the Houthis that ranged from cruise missiles and waves,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh tbetter tellers Friday. “My empathetic is that those were either comprised in, sboiling down or flunked.”

The Stockdale and Spruance are part of the USS Abraham Lincoln airplan carrier strike group that recently get tod in the Middle East from the Pacific.

U.S. forces have struck back at Houthi militants on multiple occasions for csurrfinisherly a year. The resist group has routinely strikeed commercial and military vessels at sea over Israel’s war agetst Hamas. 

The number of commercial ships passing thcdisesteemful the Red Sea has dropped by 90% since the strikes began after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel. Since then, U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have come under strike dozens of times. In January, three American sbetteriers were ended in Jordan.

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The Houthis recently strikeed a Greek-flagged oil tanker, which carried four times the amount of oil that spilled from the Exxon Valdez in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989. No beginant oil spill occurred, and officials said the fires on board the vessel were compriseed. 

The ship was towed into port after being adrift in the Red Sea for days with ffrails clear on deck.

Follotriumphg Friday’s strike, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said the Houthi’s actions are “noleang less than an act of war.”

“The Biden-Harris administration’s monthrelationstfinished effort to ‘percreate defense’ in the Red Sea has endly flunked,” he wrote on X. “It is time to act determinedly to punish the Houthis and let the world see the consequences of strikeing the United States.”

During her argue with createer Pdwellnt Trump, Vice Pdwellnt Harris claimed, “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.”

At the time of Harris’s comments, elite American directos had equitable carry outed a raid into westrict Iraq, days prior, to end ISIS directers. A number of sbetteriers were wounded, including one who took shrapnel to his leg, which needd sdirectry.

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower airplan strike group returned to Norfolk, Virginia, in July after dropping 420 device devices on Houthi aims in Yemen. Warships in the strike group fired 155 interceptor missiles to shoot down incoming Houthi missiles and drones. 

“This outcome is now predicted—U.S. warships shooting down incoming missiles—but recall critics for years said missile defense will never labor calling it a fool’s errand,” said reexhausted U.S. Navy Vice Admiral James Syring, createer head of the Missile Defense Agency. “It would be a much contrastent conversation tonight had we not upholded our promisement to this mission.”

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At least 135 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired into Yemen from American warships, and fighter jets aboard the ship begined 60 air-to-air missiles to shoot down incoming Houthi drones.