US military forces shot down a drone early Saturday over the Red Sea in international waters near several commercial vessels, the Pentagon said.
The incident came just days after a 12-nation group led by the US warned Huthi rebels in Yemen against continuing their attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The US Central Command said in a social media post Saturday that “an unmanned aerial vehicle launched from Iranian-backed Huthi-controlled areas of Yemen was shot down in self-defense” by the USS Laboon, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
It said no one was hurt.
The incident occurred in the southern Red Sea “in the vicinity of multiple commercial vessels,” it said.
The Laboon, part of a carrier strike group deployed to the region shortly after the Israel-Hamas war broke out, previously downed drones believed fired by the Huthi rebels.
The rebels have launched more than 100 drone and missile strikes toward targets in the Red Sea and Israel since the war erupted on October 7, according to Pentagon figures.
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