Tensions in the Middle East have returned, the Red Sea crisis is escalating, and the Houthis are engaged in fierce confrontations with the United States and British coalition forces. Yemen's Houthis are becoming more and more courageous, and no matter how many times they have been bombed by the US military, they are still chasing and fighting the US military in the Red Sea region. According to the global network, the Houthis claimed to have fired an anti-ship missile that hit a large US warship. The U.S. side has yet to respond.
A 78,000-ton giant ship of the US Navy was hit by Houthi anti-ship missiles. On January 29, Yemen's Houthi spokesman General Yahya Saryea said that in the early hours of January 29, Yemen's Houthi shore missile units fired at a large U.S. warship "Lewis Al Murray" sailing in the Gulf of Aden. "B. Puller" launched an anti-ship missile.
At the moment, it is not possible to determine whether the missiles fired by the Houthis hit the US ship. Yemen's Houthi rebels said the mission of the large U.S. warship was to support U.S. forces fighting in the Red Sea region and Israel in Gaza, providing logistical combat support for Israeli forces. It is a reasonable and legitimate target. Therefore, the Houthis decided to take military action against them.
"Lewis S. The USS Lewis B. Puller, named after U.S. Marine Corps combat hero Lewis Puller during World War II, is a giant ship with a displacement of 78,000 tons. It belongs to the US expeditionary mobile base ship, which is commanded by the US Military Sealift Command in peacetime and incorporated into the amphibious assault ship readiness group in wartime.
"Lewis S. The "B. Puller" was converted from a large "Alaska" type oil tanker, with a length of 233 meters and a speed of 15 knots, and its main mission was to provide logistical support and combat support for the amphibious expeditionary force.
The ship is actually a semi-submersible ship, which can be adjusted by its own ballast water tanks to submerge the lower deck into the water, so that it can be loaded directly with air-cushion landing craft and amphibious vehicles without relying on dock equipment, while the upper deck can also be used to park tanks and other combat vehicles. The flight deck of the ship has 15 take-off and landing points, which can take off and land helicopters at night, and can take off and land MV-22 "Osprey" rotorcraft, CH-47 heavy transport helicopters, MH-60 Seahawk helicopters and other aviation equipment.
The ship has a modular mission container design, and various mission bays can store minesweeping and special operations support equipment, small boats, weapons and ammunition. It can carry out replenishment and refueling at sea, anti-ship aviation at sea, aviation minesweeping, special operations, counter-piracy, maintenance of maritime security, humanitarian rescue and rescue and disaster relief operations.
"Lewis S. The USS B. Puller is not only an all-rounder for the U.S. amphibious expeditionary combat unit, but also a maritime guerrilla base for U.S. special forces. At present, the helicopter unit of the US special forces is carrying the "Lewis · B. Puller", conducting multi-mission operations in the Red Sea, such as the use of helicopter gunships to attack and suppress Yemen's Houthi wolf pack speedboat tactics, and the use of helicopters to raid hijacked merchant ships. The two U.S. Special Forces soldiers who mysteriously disappeared before were subordinate to "Lewis J. U.S. Navy SEALs aboard the USS B. Poole.
The Houthis claimed that they launched anti-ship missiles to strike the US warship "Lewis J. The "B. Pouler" was in response to the US airstrikes on the Houthis the day before, to show that the Houthis never retaliated overnight.
In recent days, Yemen's Houthi rebels have repeatedly attacked US destroyers on escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and launched a variety of anti-ship missiles, suicide drones, and ballistic missiles at US sea targets, but none of them have achieved definite results. If this time the Yemeni Houthis can take the US ship "Lewis J. The sinking of the "B. Poole" made history as the largest warship to be sunk after World War II.