re: USS Carney shot down 15 drones and 4 missiles during 9-hour time span in Northern Red Sea

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The cost of production is what worries me these days with $500 drones, drone swarms and such coming into major play

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The commercial drones are easily zapped with existing tech.

Let me guess...

There are no videos of this?

All the cameras and satellite images malfunctioned at the same time.

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four cruise missiles

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I know this is from the source quote and not the OP but I dont think Yemen Jihaddis have Cruise missiles... they are about mil a pop and require a sophisticated system to feed them intel.

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makes me wonder what technology we're really holding back.

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Pentagon Updated this “narrative” - Saturday, Oct 21

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Today, the Pentagon is admitting the events in the Red Sea were “much more significant” than originally outlined. Here’s the big picture, and we will go a little deeper.

The USS Carney is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer assigned to USS Ford Carrier Strike Group 12. As part of the October 8th deployment into the eastern Mediterranean, the USS Carney took up a defensive position for the strike group by going through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Fortunately, the Carney arrived in the Red Sea, on mission, Wednesday, just hours before four cruise missiles and 15 drones entered the established defensive perimeter airspace.

The Carney’s interceptions, the defensive activity against the missiles and drones, took place over 9 hours on Wed/Thursday. All of the interceptions happened in commercial airspace, meaning the drones and missiles were targeted to fly at altitudes of commercial air travel.

Obviously, the destination of the missiles and drones was/is unknown; however, the Pentagon said “potentially” targeted to hit Israel. Now keep in mind, this report from CNN (think State Dept) is from a U.S. official that is NOT the Pentagon. Meaning this report is political in nature and slanted to provide the State Dept/political Intelligence Community perspective. Again, this is not a military report; this is a report from the U.S. political angle of government.

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Sounds to me like the target was not the USS Carney or Israel ….. but instead the USS Gerald Ford CSG ….. jmo

USS Carney was deployed in the Red Sea as part of a picket line, or screening defense for the USS Ford ….. and it did the job effectively this time

it is worth remembering that China is the #1 investor in Yemen, and has a geopolitical relationship in Yemen driven in part by a very nearby Chinese navy military base in Djibouti