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US–UK Airstrikes On Yemen
Since 12 January 2024, the United States and the United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, have launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes, codenamed Operation Poseidon Archer, against the Houthis, Houthi movement in Yemen in Operation Prosperity Guardian, response to Red Sea crisis, Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. The Houthis had previously declared that their attacks are in support of Palestinians during the Gaza war; Houthi attacks on shipping were condemned by the United Nations Security Council the day before the initial strike. US President Joe Biden ordered the strikes, and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak convened Sunak ministry, his cabinet to authorize British participation. American officials said the strikes were intended to degrade Houthi capabilities to attack Red Sea targets rather than to kill leaders and Iranian trainers. By 2 January 2025, the Houthis recorded 931 American and Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Prosperity Guardian
Operation Prosperity Guardian is a United States-led military operation by a multinational Military coalition, coalition formed in December 2023 to respond to Red Sea crisis#Houthi attacks on commercial vessels, Houthi-led attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. Following the breakout of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Houthi movement in Yemen launched a series of attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea, including but not limited to those heading or related to Israel, with the stated purpose of preventing the bombing of Gaza and forcing Israel to let food and medicine into the strip. On 18 December 2023, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the formation of an international maritime security force aimed at ending the blockade and countering threats by Houthi movement, Houthi forces against international Maritime transport, maritime commerce in the region. The coalition currently has more than 20 members, of which ten are anonymously involved. Egypt and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahdi Al-Mashat
Mahdi al-Mashat (; born 1986) is a Yemeni politician and military officer who serves as the chairman of the Supreme Political Council, the executive body of the Houthi movement. Biography He hails from the remote hamlet Ould Nouar in the Ḥaydan district, Saada Governorate, an area where many northern Yemeni separatists come from. Since youth, he has been acquainted with one of the leaders of the Houthi rebellion, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, also a key figure in the Zaydism, Zaidi movement since 2004. They are allegedly related by marriage. From 2014 on, al-Mashat was the director of al-Houthis office, his spokesman and representative in peace talks with the United Nations, among other posts. In November 2013, he participated in an attack on the town of Dammaj in Saada. From May 2016, he was a member of the Supreme Political Council and was considered a representative of the hawkish faction. He participated in talks with the Chinese authorities in September 2016. On 19 April 2018, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Florida (SSGN-728)
USS ''Florida'' (SSBN-728/SSGN-728), an cruise missile submarine, is the sixth vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. state of Florida. She was commissioned with the hull designation of SSBN-728; with her conversion to a cruise missile submarine, from a ballistic missile submarine, she was re-designated SSGN-728. Construction and commissioning The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 28 February 1975 and her keel was laid down on the bicentennial of the United States independence, 4 July 1976. The boat was unnamed at the keel-laying ceremony. The initial boat's crew formed the precommissioning unit on 8 July 1980. The first duty watches were stationed on 14 February 1981 to support the operational control transfer of engineering systems to boat's force control. The Secretary of the Navy finally named her on 19 January 1981. ''Florida'' was launched on 14 November 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Florida (SSGN-728) Crest
Several United States Navy ships have borne the name ''Florida'', in honor of the state of Florida: *''Florida'' (1824) was a sloop that served on survey duty between 1824 and 1831. Her final cruise, between 1 June 1830 and 31 May 1831, was under the command of Lieutenant T. R. Gedney. *''Florida'' (1834) was a steamboat built in Savannah, Georgia, and operated on the St. Johns River during the Second Seminole War. It was long with a beam of and displaced near 144 tons. * was a side-wheel steamboat purchased in 1861 and sold after 1867. * was originally the screw frigate USS ''Wampanoag'', renamed in 1869, and sold in 1885. * was an monitor commissioned in 1903, renamed to USS ''Tallahassee'' in 1908, redesignated as IX-16 in 1921 and decommissioned and sold in 1922. * was the lead ship of her class of battleship, commissioned 1911 and scrapped in 1932. * is an cruise missile submarine, originally commissioned in 1983 as a ballistic missile submarine A ballistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Carney
USS ''Carney'' (DDG-64) is an (Arleigh Burke-class destroyer#Characteristics, Flight I) Aegis combat system, Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. The guided-missile destroyer is the first to be named after Robert Carney, Admiral Robert Carney, who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower administration. ''Carney'' was Keel laying, laid down in 1993 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was Ship naming and launching, launched in 1994 with Betty Taussig, daughter of Admiral Carney, as sponsor. She was placed in Ship commissioning, commission in 1996, and is Home port, homeported in Naval Station Mayport, Mayport, Florida. She has a range of 5,100 miles (4,400 nautical miles), travels at a speed in excess of 30 Knot (unit), knots, and has a crew of 329. She is armed with standard missiles, Harpoon missile launchers, Tomahawk (missile family), Tomahawk missiles, a 5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun, 54 caliber lightweight gun, and torpedoes, and carries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Carney DDG-64 Crest
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USS Philippine Sea COA
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Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
The Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet are a series of American supersonic twinjet, twin-engine, Carrier-based aircraft, carrier-capable, Multirole combat aircraft, multirole fighter aircraft derived from the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The Super Hornet is in service with the armed forces of the United States, Australia, and Kuwait. The F/A-18E single-seat and F tandem-seat variants are larger and more advanced versions of the F/A-18C and D Hornet, respectively. A strike fighter capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground/surface missions, the Super Hornet has an internal 20mm M61 Vulcan, M61A2 rotary cannon and can carry air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, and a variety of other weapons. Additional fuel can be carried in up to five external fuel tanks and the aircraft can be configured as an airborne tanker by adding an external Aerial refueling, air-to-air refueling system. Designed and initially produced by McDonnell Douglas, the Super Hornet first flew in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Dwight D
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USS Dwight D Eisenhower CVN-69 Crest
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