The US and Britain attacked a Houthi base in a port on the Red Sea

The United States and Great Britain launched a massive strike on Houthi targets in Yemen, including a base in a port on the Red Sea.

On the night of January 12, the American and British Armed Forces hit several dozen targets of the Houthis in Yemen, CNN reports.

US President Joe Biden said he ordered the strikes “in direct response to the Houthis’ unprecedented attacks on international maritime vessels in the Red Sea.”

“Today, at my direction, US military forces — together with the United Kingdom and with the support of Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands — successfully struck a number of targets in Yemen that were being used by the Houthis to threaten freedom of navigation on one of the country’s most important waterways. ways in the world,” the president said in a statement released by the White House.

In particular, it is known about the strikes on the port stronghold of the Houthis on the Red Sea. Radar systems, UAV storage and launch sites, as well as ballistic and cruise missile storage and launch sites were attacked.

According to one of the American officials, the attack on the Houthi targets involved, among other things, the guided missile submarine USS Florida, which entered the Red Sea on November 23. Like the surface ships that participated in the attack, the submarine fired Tomahawk attack missiles