"Navy counters Houthi Red Sea attacks in its first major battle at sea of the 21st century 60-minutes By Norah O'Donnell February 18, 2024 / 7:00 PM EST / CBS News"
"It was near there, three months ago, that a Japanese-chartered ship built to carry cars was hijacked by the Houthis, who posted this video."
Heh, i've seen that video many times on different newscasts and every time wondered if it was real. It really does look like something out of a video game, but ;-) for now will take your word, Norah, that it's a legit Houthi post. And real.
Hmm, that said thought i'd check fthoi, and this is odd. Though i get on the the site here
easily, as soon as i try to watch the video my on-line connection is cut. Tried it three times. The connection flicks right back on refreshing the page. Have never experienced anything like it before. Anyway the heading says a US battleship so it can't include the tiny shot of the video you showed at 2:24 of your show.
Wonder if there is anything else. This doesn't help:
Shite. I'll put your description of the ship into my search. Nope, only got the sites included above and this one pay-walled but revealing the name of the ship
Good. Looks like it. In your video at 2:24 . Still looks like a video game, but must be what you say, Norah. Y
You understand, with so much fake video around. Good exercise. Cheers
Moving on, this is heavy
"Admiral Brad Cooper: If it's coming toward them, now just put yourself in the seat of the destroyer captain on that ship. He has about nine to 15 seconds to make a decision that they're gonna shoot that down. It's intense. To speak to one of those destroyer captains deployed in the southern Red Sea, we took a five mile helicopter ride from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower over to the USS Mason… where we met Commander Justin Smith. The destroyer is one of four American warships in the area that have shot down more than a dozen of the Houthis' anti-ship ballistic missiles. Norah O'Donnell: How quickly can you see those? Commander Justin Smith: Anywhere from one to two minutes out. And providing me that decision space to give me the nine to 15 seconds as the captain of this ship on what my actions are gonna be. Norah O'Donnell: You made it sound like that's a lotta time, nine to 15 seconds. It doesn't sound like much. Commander Justin Smith: Seems very small and very short in duration-- but my crew has that ready proficiency to be able to engage."
And on, both sides would be testing, in two directions, of course. Both offenses and defenses are being tested.
"Admiral Brad Cooper: No one has ever used an anti-ship ballistic missile, certainly against commercial shipping, much less against U.S. Navy Ships."
Iran Main articles: Persian Gulf (missile), Hormuz-2 (missile), and Zulfiqar Basir (missile) In February 2011, Iran demonstrated a short-range anti-ship ballistic missile named Persian Gulf or Khalij Fars, a missile based on the Fateh-110 which successfully hit a stationary target vessel. It has been reported as a short ranged ballistic missile with a range of 250–300 km.[11] Later, Iran introduced the Hormuz missile with anti-ship capability.[12] In 2020, Iran unveiled the Zulfiqar Basir, an anti-ship variant of the Zulfiqar with a range of 700km.[12] Iran also reports successful test of the Emad missile to target aircraft carriers at a range of more than 1,000km . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_ballistic_missile#Iran [...] Countermeasures Main article: Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System The United States Navy fields what some experts think to be the best, on paper;[citation needed] midcourse anti-ballistic defense in the world, and is developing high powered lasers for terminal-defense against anti-ship ballistic missiles.[19] The U.S. arsenal has a variety of potential countermeasures.[citation needed] According to a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, Roger Cliff, an anti-ship ballistic missile is not useful without additional complex ship detection, data processing and communication systems, all of which, including the missile itself, could be jammed or spoofed, though the USN has never demonstrated such an ability.[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_ballistic_missile#Countermeasures
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