My niece is an officer on board. Things are heating up.

https://abcnews.go.com/Interna...a/story?id=104147141

Good work by your niece and all on board the USS Carney.

May God watch over us all.

All right for the good folks! Everything came together, a winner!
“God Bless ‘em all!” Father Duffy

Good.

What did the Carney use to shoot them down?

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Originally posted by chbibc:
Good.

What did the Carney use to shoot them down?

According to the above link, SM-2s were used.

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Originally posted by sorenson:
According to the above link, SM-2s were used.

Thank you - I missed that in the article.

FishOn,
To your niece: Well Done! BZ to the crew of USS CARNEY!
Stay vigilant Shipmates!

From: an old sea dog!

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Originally posted by djinco:
FishOn,
To your niece: Well Done! BZ to the crew of USS CARNEY!
Stay vigilant Shipmates!

From: an old sea dog!

I am sure she would appreciate that!

Update from the US DOD:

"The U.S. Department of Defense has stated that any kind of Response to the Cruise Missile and Drone launches last night by the Houthis in Yemen and the Attack on Al-Asad Airbase will come at a “Time and Manner of our Choosing.” "

Bring it.

Very interesting....3-missiles and 8-drones intercepted. Considering she's one of the Ballistic Missile Defense destroyers the USN has home-ported in Spain, she would've been tracking this launch probably from the start. Those SM-2 missiles are not cheap, about $2m apiece, to have them used on a $50,000 drone...lasers can't come soon enough

Carney had just entered the Red Sea on Wednesday thus she was at the Northern end of the Red Sea, Yemen is at the end of the Red Sea, about 1000+ miles from Israel, that's a long flight. Iran's Shahed drone, really a loitering munition, is estimated to have a 1000+ mile range, where ever it was going it was going to the outer edge of its range. With this action, the US is now providing air defense for Israel, at least outer-edge defense. They've got to be running low on interceptor missiles for Iron Dome and David's Sling.

U.S. Destroyer Used SM-2s to Down 3 Land Attack Missiles Launched from Yemen, Says Pentagon

Another forum member on the Israeli-Hamas war link stated that his nephew at an American base in Iraq reported it came under missile attack, which were successfully intercepted. Could it be that those missiles fired from Yemen where actually aimed at the American base in Iraq instead of Israel? The time sequence on reporting seems to fit together.

Having worked on such systems as the Carney uses I'm wondering just how big these "drones" are? Aegis AAW is designed for aircraft (read planes), so these would have had to have been pretty large drones, with a decent radar signature.

As a note, the Standard 2 (SM2) typical warhead payload is an expanding rod system, not high explosive (HE). Expanding rods are just what they sound like, a group of linked rods that encircle a smaller warhead and are pushed out in a circle when detonated, and literally cut through whatever they encounter. I forget the radius, but it's not huge. I can totally picture a single missile taking out several targets if they aren't too far apart.

Regardless, if we used an Arleigh Burke destroyer to engage drones with missiles, they had to be pretty big drones...

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Originally posted by stoic-one:

Having worked on such systems as the Carney uses I'm wondering just how big these "drones" are?

Regardless, if we used an Arleigh Burke destroyer to engage drones with missiles, they had to be pretty big drones...

They could be.

https://iranprimer.usip.org/bl...20/irans-drone-fleet

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Originally posted by chbibc:

They could be.

https://iranprimer.usip.org/bl...20/irans-drone-fleet

Thanks, interesting.

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Originally posted by chbibc:

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Originally posted by stoic-one:

Having worked on such systems as the Carney uses I'm wondering just how big these "drones" are?

Regardless, if we used an Arleigh Burke destroyer to engage drones with missiles, they had to be pretty big drones...

They could be.

https://iranprimer.usip.org/bl...20/irans-drone-fleet

That list only shows ISR platforms, it doesn't show their loitering munition drones, which is what was shot-down.

Not sure on the specific model but, their Shahed 136 has been immensely popular, the Russian's have bought a lot of them, the Houthi's have received some and the IRGC has been using them to attack tankers in the Gulf. They're a bit smaller than a Cessna 172 with a 400lb warhead.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Another forum member on the Israeli-Hamas war link stated that his nephew at an American base in Iraq reported it came under missile attack, which were successfully intercepted. Could it be that those missiles fired from Yemen where actually aimed at the American base in Iraq instead of Israel? The time sequence on reporting seems to fit together.

It's probably unclear exactly where the missiles and drones were going at the time of interception. With just a bit of deflection they could have gone a number of different places in a area of probable/possible impact. The command decision, absolutely the right one, was to destroy them when they became a possible/probable threat.

Hopefully the decision to degrade the area of launch so this won't be repeated will be made soon.

FishOn: Good on your daughter, her crewmates and the USS Carney.

God Bless her and her shipmates, and keep them safe. May all U.S. military personnel stay safe as the situation in the ME continues to escalate.

DOD put out some photos. Overall a nine hour engagement.

https://twitter.com/sentdefend...SfTTQhdQ4GKbrLh-gd2A

https://news.usni.org/2023/10/...e-to-the-middle-east

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Last week, Houthis in Yemen fired four land attack cruise missile and 15 long-range attack drones, which were shot down by USS Carney (DDG-64). The destroyer used SM-2s and the ship’s five-inch gun to take down the missiles and drones, according to a Navy official. Ryder did not have any additional details on the missile targets, the range of the missiles or how Carney intercepted them.

The senior defense official could also not give any more information on the range of the Houthi-launched missiles.

Some more tidbits of information.
Didn't think the ship or, the drones were close enough where its 5" gun was used to engage them. That's a whole lot cheaper than using guided missiles.