Caio Duilio shoots down Houthi drone. First Navy action in the Red Sea (and at least we didn’t do like the Germans…)
As communicated by the Ministry of Defense, the ship Caio Duilio , a Navy destroyer, shot down a Houthi drone as part of the mission to defend commercial traffic in the areas of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The action was consistent with the operation to protect commercial traffic in the area which has nothing to do with the attack on the Houthi positions in Yemen, conducted by the United Kingdom and the United States which, so far, has not had practical effects.
No further information is provided either on which drone was shot down or on how it was shot down, but it can be assumed that the aircraft was shot down by an Aster missile from the ship's PAAMS anti-aircraft missile system, a system designed to also protect against attack of missiles flying above the water.
Aster Missile
It is not even specified whether the attack was carried out directly against the ship or against a commercial vessel that was sailing through the area.
If nothing else, at least we shot and destroyed an enemy target, because the Germans managed to shoot at a NATO vehicle…
The German ship Hesse
A German navy ship mistakenly targeted a US Reaper drone in the Red Sea on February 29, while it was operating as part of the same EU mission as the Caio Duilio, to protect shipping in this vital waterway, a government official said on Thursday. Department of Defense official.
The MQ-9 drone was not damaged in Tuesday's crash and continued its mission, the US official said, but only because the two Standard SM-2 missiles launched from Hesse failed to reach the target, which which should make the ship's crew and the German Ministry of Defense think a little about the quality of their operational procedures. When it managed to act against the Houthi drones, Hesse did so with 76mm guns and the short-range RAM system, then let the drones get very close to the ship, running a certain risk.
The American drone did not have an activated transponder, which would have allowed it to be identified as a friend, so on the one hand, for the ship, it was truly a hostile drone, on the other hand one wonders why a US vessel wanted to remain unidentified to NATO allies.
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