The United States, U.S., French and British Military forces have downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday.
This is following Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk carrier Propel Fortune and U.S. destroyers in the region.
The U.S. military said in a statement that Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November in what they say is a campaign of solidarity with Palestinians during Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
The group’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech on Saturday they had targeted the cargo vessel and “a number of U.S. war destroyers at the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with 37 drones.”
U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, said the military and coalition forces had downed at least 28 uncrewed aerial vehicles, UAVs, over the Red Sea in the early hours of Saturday.
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“No U.S. or Coalition Navy vessels were damaged in the attack and there were also no reports by commercial ships of damage,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
Earlier on Saturday, CENTCOM said the military was responding to a large-scale attack on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden between 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.
The UAVs were intended to present “an imminent threat to merchant vessels, U.S. Navy, and coalition ships in the region”, it said in a post on social media platform X.
A French warship and fighter jets also shot down four combat drones that were advancing towards naval vessels belonging to the European Aspides mission in the region, a French army statement said.
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