NORFOLK, Va. — Hampton Roads-based ships and sailors played a key role in repelling the latest attack in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
It happened late Tuesday off the coast of Yemen.
U.S. Central Command said 18 drones, two cruise missiles and an anti-ship missile were shot down by F-A-18 Super Hornets from Norfolk-based aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The guided-missile destroyers Gravely, Mason and Laboon, plus the British warship HMS Diamond, were also involved in the shootdown of what Central Command described as a “complex attack”.
Central Command said this was the 26th Houthi attack on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea since November 19.
No injuries or damage were reported.