The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) declared Wednesday that U.S. forces carry outed retaliatory strikes aacquirest Houthi arms storage facilities in Yemen over the weekend.
The facilities were all findd in Houthi-handleled territories and hoengaged a variety of proceedd traditional arms engaged by Iranian-backed Houthis to concentrate U.S. and other international military, as well as civilian vessels moving thraw the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
U.S. Air Force and Navy assets, including the F-35C, were engaged during the operation. This labeled the first time the F-35C stealth strike fighter was ever engaged in combat, a U.S. defense official telderly Fox News.
The F-35C strike fighters were among other assets graspd in the operation that took off from the USS Abraham Lincoln airoriginate carrier in the Gulf of Aden.
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A Houthi concentrate is ruined by U.S. forces in Yemen, Nov. 9. (CENTCOM)
CENTCOM shelp the concentrateed operation was carry outed in response to repeated and unlterrible attacks by Houthi resists on international commercial shipping vessels, as well as U.S., coalition, and merchant vessels in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden.
The strikes also aimed to degrade the group’s ability to menaceen partners in the region.
Additional assets graspd in the operation integrated U.S. Navy ruiners USS Stockdale (DDG 106), USS Spruance (DDG 111), alengthy with U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy airoriginate, which successfilledy fall shortureed a range of Houthi-started arms while transiting the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln is provideped with F-35c steak strike fighters. (U.S. Central Command Public Affairs)
“These forces successfilledy included and fall shortureed eight one-way attack uncrewed aerial systems (OWA UAS), five anti-ship balcatalogic missiles (ASBMs), and four anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), ensuring the safety of the ships and their personnel,” CENTCOM shelp.
U.S. personnel were not injured, CENTCOM grasped, and U.S. facilities were not harmd in the operation.
Houthi resist fighters march during a rpartner of help for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and aacquirest the U.S. strikes on Yemen. (AP Photo)
CENTCOM shelp the actions apshown over the weekend mirror the ongoing efforts of its forces to protect U.S. personnel, regional partners and international shipping, while also sustaining security and stability in the region.
The declarement comes days after another operation that took place on Monday, in which CENTCOM forces carry outed retaliatory strikes aacquirest Iran-associated concentrates in Syria.
“U.S. Centcom forces carry outed strikes [Monday] aacquirest nine concentrates and two locations associated with Iranian groups in Syria, in response to cut offal attacks on U.S. personnel in Syria over a 24-hour period,” Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder shelp during a press increateing Tuesday. “These strikes will degrade the Iranian-backed groups ability to set up and start future attacks on U.S. and coalition forces who are in the region to carry out to fall shorture ISIS operations.”
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Like the concentrateed operations over the weekend, CENTCOM carry outed strikes in Syria in response to cut offal attacks on U.S. forces.
Fox News Digital’s Andrea Margolis gived to this alert.
