According to a recent report by the Russian Satellite News Agency , the Yemeni Houthi armed forces said that they attacked a US destroyer and two ships. The missile forces and naval forces of the Yemeni armed forces launched two military operations in the Red Sea. The Houthi armed forces fired missiles at a US destroyer and a ship in the Red Sea. In the Arabian Sea, the Houthi armed forces attacked another ship with the help of a drone.
After the outbreak of a new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October last year, the Houthi armed forces in Yemen used drones and missiles to attack targets in the Red Sea waters many times. Since January 12 this year, the United States and the United Kingdom have launched air strikes on Houthi armed targets many times, causing casualties. Some countries condemned the actions of the United States and Britain, believing that this was an infringement on Yemen's sovereignty and would exacerbate regional tensions.
Just two days before claiming to attack the aircraft carrier, the Houthis shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone. A video circulating on social media showed a US Reaper drone lying motionless in the desert, with its fuselage generally intact; some Houthi militants stood on the drone, singing and dancing. This is the third Reaper drone shot down by the Houthis in May this year. If we count the new round of conflict between Palestine and Israel, six Reaper drones have fallen into the hands of the Houthis. The Reaper is called the Reaper because it is the trump card among the trump cards of the US military drones. It can detect and strike at the same time, fly at an altitude of 15,000 meters, and cruise continuously for 24 hours. Each Reaper drone is also expensive, with the official US price of more than 30 million US dollars. But such a trump card drone is helpless against the Houthis, and they are shot down one after another. No matter how rich the US military is, it cannot withstand such attacks.
What makes the US military even more frustrated is that, despite the formation of the so-called escort force, it is simply unable to defend against Houthi missiles and drones. On the same day that the Houthi armed forces shot down the "Reaper" drone, the Houthi armed forces also announced that they had launched attacks on six merchant ships related to the United States and Israel. According to the information released by the Houthi armed forces, a major feature of this attack is that missiles and drones were launched almost simultaneously in three sea areas. Among them, three merchant ships were hit in the Red Sea, two were hit in the Arabian Sea, and one was hit in the Mediterranean. In other words, the Houthis have long broken through the restrictions of the Red Sea and expanded their offensive targets to the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and even the Mediterranean.
It feels like the US has really hit a wall, because the Houthis are indeed very strong, and the US has hit a cotton ball with its punch. In fact, Biden also had a hunch about this. When asked about the US military's air strikes on the Houthis, Biden blurted out: "Will they stop the Houthis? No. Will they continue? Yes."
According to the Houthis, the reason they want to launch attacks, blockade the Red Sea, and attack in the Indian Ocean is because they are angry about Israel's massacre in Gaza. If Israel ends the war, they will not attack Western merchant ships. But Israel will not agree, the United States will not agree, and the Houthis are also very angry, so we will use force and launch attacks again and again.
In fact, it is not just the Houthis. In Iraq, Syria, and Jordan, militias have launched attacks on US military bases one after another. Many people were killed in the US military base in Jordan, and the United States finally decided to withdraw its troops from Iraq...