US destroyer shoots down drone flying toward it in the Red Sea, defending itself in uneasy waters
US destroyer shoots down drone flying toward it in the Red Sea, defending itself in uneasy waters
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I guarantee Iran is using these chuckle-fucks to gauge our ships' defenses.
Good luck, if you've seen ciws and rfm going full blast you can understand it's unlikely for much to get through.
Warning mind numbing brrrrrrrrtttt. https://youtu.be/BnrSTkidXa8?si=AdRjdaduurQfIkbZ
Warning very loud but no brrrrttttt just cute covers popping off and missiles exploding. https://youtu.be/vxy8XcE1VjE?si=Mw94GY3Qxi0fwI1P
Ed: Three spread out over 2ish km https://youtu.be/XceGKHATcYE?si=ptUSXyFS2rNCPXuf
A Nimitz has 4 in less than a km with 2 rfm in a carrier strike group with 2 cruisers with 2 ciws each, 7 destroyers with 1ciws each and various surface support ships often with at least one ciws. That's at least 15 of these bad boys with converging areas of coverage and a carrier airwing that can act with impunity while ciws blankets the sky in lead and sweet music.
Yeah, I'm guessing most of the crew on these ships are just excited to see the guns go off instead of being actually worried about an attack. It takes a lot to bring down a US warship.
That said, I don't recommend anyone try. Even if you do manage to take one out, the rest of the fleet will be coming after you. A US warship is rarely alone.
It takes a ton of fucking balls or abject stupidity to even try. Legit the last time someone did actual damage to one of ours resulted in the entire Iraqi navy getting sunk in 8 hours and most of their naval infrastructure was destroyed.
You don't fuck about with the navy, any navy for that matter they're home country will absolutely slap back.
I don't recall that as part of the USS Cole bombing. Or the USS Liberty strafings? Which attack are you referring to?
There is a real nice animated version of Iran's navy getting their shit pushed in as well.
We didn't have drones in 88 like the Cole, in which all but iirc two of those involved were hit with missiles by drones. Calling it a liberty ship is a bit misleading, sure that's it's class but that particular one was a spy vessel and we have an active policy of not firing back from sigint ships, instead of they come under attack they burn break or blow up anything sensitive and then essentially surrender.
War changed this year. With a limited number of anti ship missiles, this was a solid defense. Now with a hug raft of drones to shoot down and anti ship missiles and submersible drones, brrrrrrrrr isn’t what it used to be.
Russias navy and specifically their naval losses are not remotely comparable to the us navy given russias navy has always been lackluster anyway, and the us navy is leaps and bounds more advanced in damn near every way.
watch a couple drone target videos or pacfire and remember thats usually one single ship.
This ship is almost certainly doing sigint which is why its alone in hostile waters, they arent worried about it because they dont particularly need to.
It’s about technology designed to shoot down a few incoming targets, being challenged by a thousand incoming targets.
doubtful, they know that ships have multiple ways to shut down their drones. It's just to be a fly buzzing around the the metaphorical head of the ship
If I wanted to know more about my enemy I’d send flies at his head