The US Navy's Red Sea fight is more intense than even the Tanker War in the 1980s, destroyer captain says
A missile launches from a US Navy warship in the Red Sea in February.
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- The US Navy's counter-Houthi mission has been described as its most intense combat since World War II.
- The captain of a destroyer that deployed to the Red Sea said it surpasses the dangerous Tanker War.
- That conflict was part of the broader Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.
The US Navy has spent months battling Houthi missiles and drones threatening warships...
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