CENTCOM: Houthis attack ship with “highly flammable liquid hydrogen” and fire ensues

by The Right Scoop

US CENTCOM has just released a statement revealing how the Houthis attacked a ship with anti-ship ballistic missiles that contained a “highly flammable liquid hydrogen mixture” and a fired quickly ensued in one of the cargo holds.

According to the statement, the “USS Carney (DDG 64), the French Navy Frigate FS Alsace (D656) and Indian Navy Frigate INS Visakhapatnam (DD66) all responded quickly” and helped put out the fire after the civilian crew had exhausted their firefighting capability.

Here’s the full statement:

Yesterday, the Iranian-backed Houthis struck the Marshall Islands-flagged, Bermuda-owned M/V Marlin Luanda with an Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) in the Gulf of Aden. Marlin Luanda is transporting for commercial use a cargo of Naphtha, a highly flammable liquid hydrogen mixture. Following the missile strike, a major fire ensued in one of the cargo holds. USS Carney (DDG 64), the French Navy Frigate FS Alsace (D656) and Indian Navy Frigate INS Visakhapatnam (DD66) all responded quickly, providing critical firefighting material and assistance to the civilian crew, who had depleted their organic firefighting capability. The multinational crew, the lives of which the Houthis endangered, was made up of 22 Indian and 1 Bangladeshi crew members.

Thanks to this rapid response by the U.S., Indian and French navies, the fire is now extinguished. There were no casualties in the attack, the ship remains seaworthy, and has returned to its previous course.

Many thanks to our Combined Maritime Forces partners for their great teamwork at sea, averting a disaster that threatened lives and the seaworthiness of the ship and risked major environmental damage.

These unlawful actions have nothing to do with the conflict in Gaza. Neither the vessel nor its crew have any affiliation to Israel. The Houthis have fired indiscriminately into the Red Sea, targeting vessels impacting over 40 countries around the world.

How many more attacks like this must happen before the Biden administration and this coalition stop playing damn footsie with the Houthis. This is not going to stop until they put a serious hurt on these Islamic terrorists. And if it doesn’t stop, you bomb the hell out of them until they do stop.


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