Iran-backed Houthi rebels: US navy faces its most intense combat since WWII against Houthi rebels

Currently have pretty high confidence that not only is Iran providing financial support, but they're providing intelligence support as well. And then finally, the one that gets most of the news is the kinetic support that they provide the weapons. We know for a fact the Houthis have also gotten training to target maritime shipping and target US warships as well. I don't think people really understand just just kind of how deadly serious it is, what we're doing and and how. You know, under threat. The ships continue to be, I mean, the Houthis shooting every day. Our ships remain under threat every day. And we're doing a great job defending ourselves, great job defending the force, but it is relentless. The destroyers spend 6 out of seven days in what we call the weapons engagement zone, the West, which they can be hit with a variety of enemy weapons, whether it be UAVs, anti ship cruise missiles or anti ship ballistic missiles. A ballistic missile could be fired at them with seconds of notice for a few minutes of flight time. You know, 10 seconds of detection, 10 seconds to figure out what you're going to do about it. And they're incredibly deadly. I'm going to be.