{"id":68363,"date":"2016-10-10T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68363"},"modified":"2016-10-10T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:29:02","slug":"missiles-fired-at-uss-mason-from-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68363","title":{"rendered":"Missiles fired at USS Mason from Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68370\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68370\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/300px-USS_Mason_DDG-87.jpg\" alt=\"300px-USS_Mason_DDG-87\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68370\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/10\/10\/houthi-rebels-fire-2-missiles-at-us-navy-destroyer-in-red-sea.html\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Mason was attacked by Houthi rebels while the ship was in international water off the coast of Yemen. The missiles they used didn&#8217;t damage the ship;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though the American warship wasn&#8217;t struck, the ship was definitely targeted, a U.S. defense official told Fox News. This dramatic escalation comes a week after the U.S. Navy sent warships to the area when a United Arab Emirates flagged auxiliary ship was destroyed off the coast of Yemen by the Houthis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We assess the missiles were launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen,&#8221; Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/missiles-fired-from-rebel-held-yemen-land-near-us-destroyer-mason?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Early%20Bird%20Brief%2010.10.2016&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> An American defense official said the Mason used onboard defensive measures after the first missile was fired, but it wasn&#8217;t clear if that caused the missile to splash harmlessly into the sea. The destroyer at the time of the missile fire was north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which serves as a gateway for oil tankers headed to Europe through the Suez Canal, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the incident that haven&#8217;t been made public. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to AW1Ed for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Mason was attacked by Houthi rebels while the &hellip; <a title=\"Missiles fired at USS Mason from Yemen\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68363\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missiles fired at USS Mason from Yemen<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}