[ianburrell]

The Red Sea has shown how important warships are. They have been successful at shooting down missiles and drones and protecting ships. I think a single cargo ship has been hit and sunk.

The Houthis have mostly been using drones which don't work well against ships. But they have used a few Iranian anti-ship missiles.

The Eisenhower withdrew in June and Roosevelt arrived in July.

[ein0p]

Yeah, so important that commercial traffic is impacted to this day, in spite of billions of dollars in ammo and other costs.