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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 01, 2024, 05:42:10 pm
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A Houthi missile got so close to a US destroyer the warship turned to a last-resort gun system to shoot it down: report
Story by insider@insider.com (Ella Sherman,Jake Epstein) • 19h
A Houthi missile recently put a US destroyer's close-in weapons system to the test, a report said.
A warship's CIWS is usually considered its last line of defense and is for close-range intercepts.
The Tuesday incident marks the latest Houthi missile attack, though not the latest exchange of fire.
A Houthi anti-ship cruise missile fired into the Red Sea came within a mile of a US Navy destroyer on Tuesday, a report said, close enough that the American warship turned to its close-in weapons system — a last line of defense.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-houthi-missile-got-so-close-to-a-us-destroyer-the-warship-turned-to-a-last-resort-gun-system-to-shoot-it-down-report/ar-BB1hzpcY?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c3d837cf3bf047d98b0ac8b6a76b56a9&ei=56
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Fishrrman totally off-the-wall™ prediction:
Before this is over, at least one U.S. Navy ship is going to end up at the bottom of the Red Sea...