US says it destroyed several Houthi drones over Red Sea, Yemen

14 July 2024, 10:55 pm 2 Edit

An F/A-18 Super Hornet launches off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt on July 5, 2024, in the South China Sea. The Roosevelt is replacing the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Navy's campaign against attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. (Seaman Aaron Haro Gonzalez/US Navy, via AP)

The US Central Command says in a statement that over the past 24 hours, its troops “successfully destroyed” two Houthi-operated drones over the Red Sea, as well as an “uncrewed surface vessel” in the body of water.

In addition, it says, it also destroyed a Houthi drone that was over a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen.

The statement says that the targets “presented an imminent threat to US, coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region.”