June recorded thehighest number of Houthi missile and drone attacks on commercial vessels this year andthe second-largest since December.
About eight months after Iran-backed Houthi rebels began seriously disrupting maritime traffic in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, June recorded the highest number of missile and drone attacks on commercial vessels this year and the second-largest since December. As instability in the Middle East intensifies, Houthi rebels have sunk one commercial vessel in recent weeks and have introduced kamikaze drone boats to their arsenal.
This is a nonstate actor that fields a larger arsenal and is really able to give a headache to the Western coalition,' said Sebastian Bruns, a naval expert at the Center for Maritime Strategy and Security and the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University in Germany, who was quoted by Foreign Policy. Bruns said, 'This is as high-end as it gets for now, and when navies are having a problem with sustainment at this level, it is really worrisome.
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