‘Surprising’ Intensity ff Houthi Attacks Push French Warship to Exit Red Sea
13th April 2024
France’s Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Alsace has turned tail from the Red Sea after running out of missiles and munitions repelling attacks from the Yemeni armed forces, according to its commander, Jerome Henry.
“We didn’t necessarily expect this level of threat. There was an uninhibited violence that was quite surprising and very significant. [The Yemenis] do not hesitate to use drones that fly at water level, to explode them on commercial ships, and to fire ballistic missiles,” Henry told French news outlet Le Figaro in an exclusive interview published on 11 April.
The Houthis have a shooting gallery, and the ducks are stuck in a row. If this were a real war, or the U.S. had a real government, they would have gone in with Marines and cruise missiles and cleaned them out thoroughly. But that was yesterday … and yesterday’s gone.