More than a year after Yemen-based Houthi rebels began an onslaught of missile and drone attacks on commercial vessels sailing through the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy is still fending off attempted strikes in the region. U.S. Naval ships successfully resisted ...

Two U.S. Navy destroyers defeated a Houthi militant drone and missile attack earlier this week while escorting merchant ships through the Gulf of Aden, U.S. military officials said. The multiple one-way drone and single anti-ship cruise missile attack came Monday and Tuesday as USS Stockdale and USS O’Kane were protecting three U.

US forces defeated an attack by Yemen-based Houthi rebels on a trio of merchant ships and two destroyers in the Gulf of Aden. The post US again defeats Houthi attacks on American cargo, military ships appeared first on FreightWaves.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched multiple drones and a missile at three commercial ships being escorted in the Gulf of Aden by U.S. Navy ships, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The three U.S. affiliated flagged ships were sailing east toward Djibouti.

Two US Navy destroyers repelled a missile-drone attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels targeting commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden. No civilian ships or crew were harmed, reports the US Central Command (CENTCOM).