Sailors assigned to the Navy destroyer Carney stand watch in the ship’s Combat Information Center as it took out a barrage of Houthi drones and missiles on Oct. 19, 2023, in the Red Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau/Navy)
The Navy’s surface fleet has spent the past 15 months taking down hundreds of missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels at U.S. and allied Navies’ ships, as well as commercial vessels in and around the Red Sea, the WarZone reports.