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US destroyer shoots down drone flying toward it in the Red Sea, defending itself in uneasy waters (www.businessinsider.com)

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[+] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Good luck, if you've seen ciws and rfm going full blast you can understand it's unlikely for much to get through.

Warning mind numbing brrrrrrrrtttt. https://youtu.be/BnrSTkidXa8?si=AdRjdaduurQfIkbZ

Warning very loud but no brrrrttttt just cute covers popping off and missiles exploding. https://youtu.be/vxy8XcE1VjE?si=Mw94GY3Qxi0fwI1P

Ed: Three spread out over 2ish km https://youtu.be/XceGKHATcYE?si=ptUSXyFS2rNCPXuf

A Nimitz has 4 in less than a km with 2 rfm in a carrier strike group with 2 cruisers with 2 ciws each, 7 destroyers with 1ciws each and various surface support ships often with at least one ciws. That's at least 15 of these bad boys with converging areas of coverage and a carrier airwing that can act with impunity while ciws blankets the sky in lead and sweet music.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'm guessing most of the crew on these ships are just excited to see the guns go off instead of being actually worried about an attack. It takes a lot to bring down a US warship.

That said, I don't recommend anyone try. Even if you do manage to take one out, the rest of the fleet will be coming after you. A US warship is rarely alone.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It takes a ton of fucking balls or abject stupidity to even try. Legit the last time someone did actual damage to one of ours resulted in the entire Iraqi navy getting sunk in 8 hours and most of their naval infrastructure was destroyed.

You don't fuck about with the navy, any navy for that matter they're home country will absolutely slap back.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't recall that as part of the USS Cole bombing. Or the USS Liberty strafings? Which attack are you referring to?

[–] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/d5v6hlRyeHE?si=qBYTWU9XUchDPhg9

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[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

War changed this year. With a limited number of anti ship missiles, this was a solid defense. Now with a hug raft of drones to shoot down and anti ship missiles and submersible drones, brrrrrrrrr isn’t what it used to be.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Russias navy and specifically their naval losses are not remotely comparable to the us navy given russias navy has always been lackluster anyway, and the us navy is leaps and bounds more advanced in damn near every way.

watch a couple drone target videos or pacfire and remember thats usually one single ship.

This ship is almost certainly doing sigint which is why its alone in hostile waters, they arent worried about it because they dont particularly need to.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It’s about technology designed to shoot down a few incoming targets, being challenged by a thousand incoming targets.

[–] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

doubtful, they know that ships have multiple ways to shut down their drones. It's just to be a fly buzzing around the the metaphorical head of the ship

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[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 42 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Hasn't anyone learned? From the founding of America until present day, don't fuck with our boats. We will issue a 'proportional' response.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You joke but something like half the wars we fought in the 1800s at least tangentially involved "FUCK YOU OUR BOATS CAN GO WHEREVER THE FUCK THEY WANT TO GO AND YOU CAN CRY ABOUT IT IF YOU CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT IT!"

Although it probably was inevitable given just how important sea faring was to keep trade with the outside world open.

[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Navy was founded because pirates were fucking with our boats.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

You wouldn't download an aircraft carrier

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure the Marines too

[–] FallingLights@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You just need to say its a accident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

This is at least the third incident in the last month. In the last two, Yemen shot missiles at US and Israeli assets. Yemen needs to calm the fuck down.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yemen is a puppet of Iran. The Houthi, anyway.

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[–] burchalka@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, as a place where:

According to the UN, over 150,000 people have been killed in Yemen (From wikipedia)

They should really calm the fuck down

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I fail to see how that's relevant here.

Are they allowed to shoot Missiles at other People now?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Given that the US is an ally of Saudi Arabia, at least regarding the conflict in Yemen, yes they are. I mean they're also Irani puppets but pretending this is unprovoked when these people are getting killed using US weapons is disingenuous.

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[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yemen is not one country, but rather in a similar situation to Syria. One Yemeni government is supported by Saudi Arabia while the Houthis, who shot the missiles and are unrecognized, are supported by Iran

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

It's the material conditions making them shoot missiles, you see

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[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah man Yemen

[–] Femcowboy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

We've been supporting war in Yemen for a bit now. I think since 2014, so nearly a decade. This is the natural result of such. Maybe we need to just stay out of middle eastern blood feuds if we don't want to have our ships attacked?

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