New images emerging now of the British ship "RUBYMAR" that was sunk by the Houthis

New images emerging now of the British ship "RUBYMAR" that was sunk by the Houthis in the Red Sea.

How long can this go on in the Red Sea, the US has to be burning through countermeasures


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originally posted by: putnam6
New images emerging now of the British ship "RUBYMAR" that was sunk by the Houthis in the Red Sea.

How long can this go on in the Red Sea, the US has to be burning through countermeasures


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No, not really. The US has 11 big deck carriers. Only one of them is deployed in the Red Sea.

originally posted by: Boomer1947

originally posted by: putnam6
New images emerging now of the British ship "RUBYMAR" that was sunk by the Houthis in the Red Sea.

How long can this go on in the Red Sea, the US has to be burning through countermeasures


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No, not really. The US has 11 big deck carriers. Only one of them is deployed in the Red Sea.

Most of the missiles are being shot from destroyers are they not?

Incredibly stupid to continue to shoot down cheaply made drones with missiles that cost 2 plus million dollars each. Even if it is effective, If the Houthis can stress the US in the Red Sea imagine what China could do in the China Straight. FWIW EVERY incoming threat takes an average of 2 missiles

Thankfully sounds as if the Navy is less dismissive

Perhaps read the article for a more honest assessment


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Some analysts argue that shooting Houthi drones out of the sky with SM-2s might not be an ideal solution.

“Today’s operations will stress the sustainability of the U.S. surface fleet, which relies on relatively expensive weapons for self-defense,” Bryan Clark, a retired submariner and current senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said in an email to Navy Times.

Not relying so heavily on the SM-2 could allow commanders to “become more comfortable” with the idea of letting drones get in closer proximity to where they can be taken out with less expensive assets, said James Holmes, a former surface warfare officer and director of maritime strategy at the Naval War College.
The Carney and other warships have been at the spear’s tip for intercepting these attacks, shooting down scores of Houthi air attack drones in the process.

And while it remains to be seen whether last week’s U.S.-led bombing of Houthi sites in Yemen will cause the rebels to meaningfully relent, current Navy leaders and analysts agree: The volume of intercepts in the Red Sea is without modern precedent for the Navy, and the surface fleet is quickly learning from the encounters.

Those lessons are also raising questions about which warship weapons are right for such a job. While McLane declined to get into the specifics of how the Red Sea fight is impacting tactics and training during a recent interview, citing classification levels, he said the surface fleet is tracking developments “very closely.

the months-long effort to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones is new, and something the Navy hasn’t done regularly since gunfire support missions during the Vietnam War, according to Jan van Tol, a retired forward-deployed warship captain and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

To date, the SM-2 munition is the only one used in the Red Sea that the sea service has officially confirmed.

Relying on a pricey asset to eliminate cheap threats raises questions about the sustainability and efficiency of the tactic, multiple analysts told Navy Times.

Navy leaders have indicated that they feel good about the surface fleet’s munitions stockpile.

“Right now, we’re stable in our inventory,” Rear Adm. Fred Pyle, head of the Surface Warfare Division for the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, told reporters this month. “But it’s something we are very focused on and we continue to work on it.”

A destroyer’s five-inch gun and smaller missile options would make sense in the Red Sea against incoming Houthi fires, but it remains to be seen whether the surface fleet would culturally choose those options, given how ingrained the concepts of layered defense are within the fleet and the desire to take down a threat from as far away as possible, according to van Tol.

“Ultimately the likely future increase in numbers of simultaneous incoming threats will require higher capacities of defensive fires, and those can’t only be expensive [long-range, surface-to-air missiles], both for cost imposition and limited ship [vertical launch system] capacity reasons,” he said.

The Rubymar was not sunk. It was abandoned after the missile strike. It's still afloat and being towed to port.

originally posted by: Boomer1947

originally posted by: putnam6
New images emerging now of the British ship "RUBYMAR" that was sunk by the Houthis in the Red Sea.

How long can this go on in the Red Sea, the US has to be burning through countermeasures


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No, not really. The US has 11 big deck carriers. Only one of them is deployed in the Red Sea.

what kind of munitions are they using to shoot down the drones, and how much do they cost? I believe that was the point, not how many carriers are deployed in the Red Sea.

originally posted by: crayzeed
The Rubymar was not sunk. It was abandoned after the missile strike. It's still afloat and being towed to port.

LOL #1 crayzeed just copied the headline from Twitter

#2 yay it still floats I guess it's okay as long as those smelly nasty Houthis don't sink it. Having it abandoned and towed elsewhere certainly won't affect shipping in the least.

originally posted by: crayzeed
The Rubymar was not sunk. It was abandoned after the missile strike. It's still afloat and being towed to port.

Its slowly sinking while leaving an evergrowing 18 mile oil slick behind it.

originally posted by: crayzeed
The Rubymar was not sunk. It was abandoned after the missile strike. It's still afloat and being towed to port.

Looks as if it never made it to port...

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originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: crayzeed
The Rubymar was not sunk. It was abandoned after the missile strike. It's still afloat and being towed to port.

Its slowly sinking while leaving an evergrowing 18 mile oil slick behind it.

Hopefully, prevailing winds will blow that oil slick right onto Yemen's beaches. Would serve them right.