US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker
US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker
US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker | CNN Politics
Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.
The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.
The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.
“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.
Way to sensationalize, just call it a missile no need to evoke the thought of an icbm.
It's probably a sayyad anti ship missile, ciws would murder them things unless mass fired which they don't have the resources for.
Isn’t there two types of missiles? The distinction matters, why would you assume it’s intercontinental based off of the type of missile? Cruise or ballistic can both be intercontinental.
It just means they follow a ballistic trajectory instead of direct fire like a tow missile.
It doesn't really matter no, they're just trying to make it sound scary. You gotta remember like half or more of the population won't know that and don't have the critical thinking to look it up.
Fun fact in this case it's a ballistic and a cruise missile. Likely a sayyad version of the qud missile which is itself likely a recased version of an Iranian missile.
"If a shitty home-made missile's engine fails half way through flight then technically it's ballistic from that point on." - shitty reporter.
It's if homemade it's probably unguided which makes it a rocket or rocket assisted mortar.