US worried over growing cost of deflecting Houthi attacks
The Pentagon is “increasingly alarmed” not only about the threat of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea but also the “growing cost” of rebuffing those the assaults, reports US news website Politico, citing unnamed US officials.
The US Navy has deployed missiles at $2.1m each to destroy “unsophisticated Houthi drones” estimated at a few thousand dollars each.
“The cost offset is not on our side,” one unnamed Pentagon official was quoted as saying.
Over the past two months, the US Navy
has reportedly shot down at least 38 drones and multiple missiles in the
Red Sea as the Houthis stepped up their attacks in protest of the
ongoing Israeli bombardment in Gaza that has killed almost 20,000
Palestinians.
posted by Bruce K. Gagnon | 6:56 AM
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