British warships have destroyed multiple drones after Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired their largest attack in the Red Sea to date, the UK defence minister has said.
The US military’s Central Command said the complex attack launched by the Houthis included bomb-carrying drones, anti-ship cruise missiles and one anti-ship ballistic missile.
It said 18 drones, two cruise missiles and the anti-ship missile were downed by F-18s from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as by American Arleigh Burke-class destroyers the USS Gravely, the USS Laboon and the USS Mason, as well as the United Kingdom’s HMS Diamond.
