Yemen’s Huthis attacked US destroyers with drones, missiles: Pentagon

Yemen’s Huthi targeted two US destroyers with drones and missiles as they transited the Bab al-Mandab Strait, but the warships defeated the attacks, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

The US warships “were attacked by at least eight one-way attack uncrewed aerial systems, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three anti-ship cruise missiles, which were successfully engaged and defeated,” Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder told journalists.

“The vessels were not damaged, no personnel were hurt,” Ryder said of the Monday attacks.

A claim from the Huthis that they also attacked the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is not accurate, he said.

“Based on the information I have, it was not attacked, contrary to some of the allegations… by the Huthis,” Ryder said, declining to specify the carrier’s location.