- Houthi rebels are threatening US warships and shipping using naval drones, a new report said.
- The commander of a US Navy carrier strike group says these weapons are among the more frightening.
- The use of cheap sea drones has been pioneered, to considerable success, by Ukraine.
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As the Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group fends off attacks in the Red Sea, Houthi rebels have added a new weapon to their arsenal — naval drones, The Associated Press reported.
Rear Adm. Marc Miguez, the commander of the Eisenhower carrier strike group, told the outlet that the sea drones were “more of an unknown threat that we don’t have a lot of intel on, that could be extremely lethal.”
US forces have encountered Houthi sea drones in commercial shipping lanes on at least three occasions, The Maritime Executive, a specialist outlet, reported.
In the past two weeks alone, Ukraine has claimed to have sunk a Russian corvette and a landing craft using only a handful of inexpensive, home-produced MAGURA V5 naval drones.
The rebel group has also used them in the past against Saudi coalition forces involved in Yemen’s civil war, the AP reported.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group has for weeks been responding to nearly constant attacks and malign activities in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and the strike-group commander told Business Insider’s Jake Epstein about how US forces had adapted their approach to target Houthi missiles and drones before they could even be launched.
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