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Aluminum explorer & expedition yachts, exploring boundless horizons with aluminum explorer & expedition yachts.

At Naval Yachts , we specialize in crafting aluminum or steel vessels designed for long-range journeys, unmatched durability, and eco-friendly performance. Our commitment to reducing maintenance while maximizing adventures sets us apart. Our yachts are built with aluminum or steel for strength and corrosion resistance, ensuring resilience in any environment. They're engineered for fuel efficiency without compromising power and require minimal upkeep, allowing you to focus on exploring the world's most remote corners. Join us to redefine exploration, embark on unforgettable journeys, and create lasting memories with Aluminum Explorer & Expedition Yachts . Naval Yachts Passage Maker Yachts offer a unique "passage maker" experience in the explorer and expedition yacht categories.

Aluminum Strength

With the up front caveat that there is no one “best” material to use when building a boat as they all have their own lists of pros and cons, when you set about building a boat to take on the extremes that Mother Nature can throw at you when crossing the world’s oceans “short handed” with just 1 or 2 people and doing so with the highest safety and comfort, the choice becomes more clear. As with many other choices when designing and building such a boat, this is an extremely personal decision and what counts the most is that YOU have the highest possible confidence in your choice and can set to sea knowing that your boat will be able to endure much more than you.

The reasons of choosing aluminium as your hull material

Fuel Efficiency

Fuel efficiency has become one of the most important subject for boat owners and sailors not only because of high expenses but also they pay attention to the environment and nature. Naval Yachts sees these facts and concentrates in new Technologies and engineered studies together with the technical universities and institutions to find and offer solutions.

We use aluminum. A superior material. Light and 100% recyclable. ( Aluminium Yachts )

We have hybrid solutions in powertrain. We have serial hybrid boats launched already with the latest technology.

We use light materials in interior. We make our calculations to reach a light but stable boat in the end.

We design and use the most efficient hull forms in order to get best results with minimum water resistance under the waterline.

Earth is a great planet to discover and experience on a boat. As long as you can. As the sailors would like to discover and see more places, they need enough speed, consume less and bigger fuel tanks.

Our boats can give the chance the sailors to cruise faster and longer without refueling.

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Mission Safety / Safety First

At Naval Yachts, safety is our paramount mission. We prioritize safety first in every aspect of our aluminum yacht production. From design to construction, our unwavering commitment to ensuring the security and well-being of our passengers and crew is at the core of our values

Full Customisation

Naval Yachts is specialised in custom boat building. All our boats are unique and can not be repated because every owner has his own dream on board.

Thanks to our design and engineering team, we can make modifications easily and our experienced production and assemly team can produce and apply these modifications.

With the up front caveat that there is no one “best” material to use when building a boat as they all have their own lists of pros and cons, when you set about building a boat to take on the extremes that Mother Nature can throw at you when crossing the world’s oceans “short handed” with just 1 or 2 people and doing so with the highest safety and comfort, the choice becomes more clear.  As with many other choices when designing and building such a boat, this is an extremely personal decision and what counts the most is that YOU have the highest possible confidence in your choice and can set to sea knowing that your boat will be able to endure much more than you.

The reasons of choosing aluminium as your hull material;

• Extremely easy to work with using regularly available tools such as carbide tipped saws and router bits and to fabricate with readily available welding and bending equipment.  CNC cutting with plasma, waterjet or laser works particularly well with aluminium which allows custom designs to be as affordably built as production boats with the dramatic savings in labour time and costs.
• On a like to like boat comparison aluminum boat hulls weigh about 30% less than steel and less weight means a more easily powered hull which pays us back in reduced fuel costs for the life of the boat.
• Our previous all steel sailboat taught us the valuable lesson that robustly built metal boats do not flex or move under the stress and strain of the seas and everything and everyone onboard benefits from boat parts that stay water tight because they don’t move and from the quiet of cabinetry that isn’t being flexed.
• eXtremely low exterior maintenance time and costs when left unpainted down to the waterline as we will do.  Left unpainted, bare aluminium quickly forms a hard outer layer of aluminium oxide which prevents any corrosion which will be a major cost savings throughout the life of the boat.
• Highest strength to weight ratio of any boat building material other than composites.
• Future modifications or repairs of damaged parts of the hull can be easily done with either onboard equipment if you know how to weld or by pretty much any welders you will find in any country.
• While steel may have higher puncture resistance in some situations, aluminium is the most pliable and ductile of any other boat material meaning that when (never if) we hit something the aluminium will bend but not break or crack.  By using gradually thicker aluminium hull plating from the 6mm we have on our decks to ultimately 16mm below the waterline and 25mm thick at the keel our hull will most likely see us through pretty much any scenario.
• Relatively easy to control corrosion or rot compared to steel, wood, fiberglass or composites.
• Aluminium is very “transparent” in terms of letting  you see any damage that does exist as there is nothing which hides below the surface of unpainted aluminium.
• It varies somewhat between different world markets but aluminium boats tend to have a higher resale value than other materials because of all the advantages above.

We use aluminum. A superior material. Light and 100% recyclable.

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This New 88-Foot Superyacht Concept Is Designed to Be as Aerodynamic as a Supercar

Naturally, the vessel is fitted with v-12 engines that enable a top speed of 45 knots., rachel cormack.

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Supercars and superyachts are not so different. Both sleek machines are synonymous with luxury and high design. They require a high level of craftsmanship and deep pockets, too. Now Naval Yachts is looking to bring the two even closer still.

The burgeoning Turkish shipbuilder, which began in 2008 as a design studio before opening a boatyard in Antalya two years later, has just unveiled a new concept inspired by the aerodynamics of the world’s fastest cars.

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“We took some touches from Lamborghini,” the co-owner of Naval Yachts , Barış Dinc, told Robb Report via email.

To that end, the sporty 88-footer known as LXT88 focuses on speed and dynamism just like any good Raging Bull. Designed for a supercar-loving client, the vessel sports a svelte orange hull, with black carbon accents and a menacing grille stern.

The LXT88 features a large Jacuzzi forward.  Naval Yachts

Forged from lightweight aluminum, the speedster will be fitted with twin MTU 1600 V-12 engines that will allow it to reach 42 knots at full tilt, according to the yard. (For comparison: Tecnomar’s Lamborghini 63 , which was released early last year, sports two MAN V-12s that churn out 2,000 hp each to give the dayboat a top speed in excess of 60 knots.) The yacht’s inline stern drive system reportedly gives it great maneuverability and efficiency, too.

Dinc says details regarding the interior (and renders) will be available in the coming days. To give you a taste, though, there will be three guest cabins, a main saloon and dining area, as well as crew quarters with space for two. There’s also a Jacuzzi forward,  because why not.

This isn’t the only vessel to take a four-wheeler for a muse, either. After releasing that Lamborgini day boat, Tecnomar followed up with another superyacht inspired by the lines of a supercar. Lazzarini and Rossinavi have also penned boats that take cues from a Ferrari and Bugatti, respectively.

You know what they say: Three’s a trend, and hopefully this is one that will last.

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  XPM 85 is a 25.4 m Motor Yacht, currently being built in Turkey by Naval Yachts and to be delivered in 2024. She is the only XPM 85 model.

  Her top speed is 16.0 kn, her cruising speed is 10.5 kn, and she boasts a maximum cruising range of 7000.0 nm at 10.0 kn, with power coming from two Scania diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 6 guests in 3 staterooms, with 1 crew member waiting on their every need. She has a 6.2 m beam.

  She was designed by Artnautica Yacht Design , who also completed the naval architecture. Artnautica Yacht Design has designed 0 yachts and created the naval architecture for 0 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

  Her interior was designed by Naval Yachts - she is built with a Aluminium deck, a Aluminium hull, and Aluminium superstructure.

  When delivered, XPM 85 will join a fleet of 5707 motor yachts in the 24-30m size range.

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  • Name: XPM 85
  • Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
  • Yacht Subtype: Displacement
  • Model: XPM 85
  • Builder: Naval Yachts
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  Battleship New Jersey arrives at Paulsboro Marine Terminal; will head next to Philadelphia Navy Yard

  

  PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A famed battleship floated down the Delaware River on Thursday as the USS New Jersey left its dock in Camden, New Jersey, on its way to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for extensive maintenance work.

  The vessel, guided by tugboats, docked at the Paulsboro Marine Terminal on Thursday afternoon, where it will be balanced to prepare for dry docking and will then go to the Navy Yard in six days.

  The maintenance work is expected to take about two months to complete, officials said. Three major repair projects are planned, including repainting the ship's hull, fixing the anti-corrosion system underneath the ship and inspecting through-hull openings.

  The battleship, which was built in the 1940s in Philadelphia, served for about 50 years before its retirement in February 1991. It has been a floating museum since 2001.

  "The battleship still commands tremendous pride," said Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen.

  The ship was built at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was launched from there on Dec. 7, 1942, the first anniversary of the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor.

  This is the first time the ship has moved since 1999. Action News was there to cover that event nearly 25 years ago.

  

  The ship is the most decorated battleship in Navy history, earning distinction in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and conflicts in the Middle East, according to its website. The ship steamed more miles, fought in more battles and fired more shells in combat than any other battleship.

  "There's no battleship in our history that comes close to the legacy," said Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ).

  "This ship is historically significant because of the patriots that served aboard her," said Rear Admiral Thomas J. Anderson.

  Patriots like Anthony Mangone of Washington Twp., who served on the ship in the 1980s.

  "I am the youngest guy from the last commissioning crew," he said.

  The Battleship New Jersey means so much to him, that he got married on it!

  It also means a lot to Norman Bloomfield. The 90-year-old veteran worked on the deck of the ship in 2001.

  "My job was to take out the wooden plugs that were rotten and replace it with these plugs here," he said.

  The ship will be back in Camden sometime in June. In the meantime, there will be dry dock tours on the weekends in the Navy Yard.

  The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  Navy creates Navy Arctic Service Medal

  

  The Navy is rolling out a Navy Arctic Service Medal this year , serving as an extension of the existing Navy Arctic Service Ribbon.

  The creation of the medal comes as the Navy has ramped up operations and exercises in the Arctic in recent years, and as Navy leaders have called for a strong military presence in the region as global warming opens more waters to navigation in the frigid territory.

  Those eligible for the medal are enlisted sailors and officers in the Navy and Marine Corps who were assigned to a unit that conducted an ice-covered strait transit, such as the Bering Strait or Barrow Strait, or a unit that conducted a transit of the North Pole, the Navy said in a statement Monday.

  Those assigned to a submarine that “conducted a vertical surfacing through ice, including through an arctic polynya, or ice picked against the ice canopy,” or a submarine that “conducted at least seven days of classified military operations while under the marginal ice zone or pack ice,” are also eligible, the Navy said.

  Likewise, those whose commanding officers determine they were assigned to an ice camp or an operations center set up on an ice floe are also eligible for the medal.

  Civilians serving in these units also qualify to receive the medal.

  

  Seabees prep for chilly conditions in upcoming Norway deployment

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  The Navy said to expect distribution no sooner than later this year. The chief of naval operations and the commandant of the Marine Corps will proceed with setting up an administrative process to retroactively grant the the Navy Arctic Service Medal.

  The Navy first created the Navy Arctic Service Ribbon in 1987 for those who completed 28 days of service in the Arctic Circle after January 1, 1982.

  The service released its “Blue Arctic” strategy for the region in 2021, urging the sea service to “operate more assertively” there.

  It also cautioned that Russia is reopening old bases in the Arctic and “reinvigorating” regional exercises, which it expects to continue, and warns that China will also bolster its naval activity “on, below and above Arctic waters.”

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  Alfred M. Gray Jr., who shook up the Marines as commandant, dies at 95

  Gen. gray pressed for curiosity and problem-solving as the marine corps charted a long, uneven comeback from the vietnam war and the beirut barracks bombing.

  

  Retired Marine Corps Gen. Alfred M. Gray Jr., a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who helped lead U.S. forces during the evacuation of Saigon and became a transformational leader of his service as commandant from 1987 to 1991, died March 20 at his home in Alexandria, Va. He was 95.

  The Marine Corps confirmed his death in a statement without providing a cause.

  With a booming voice, gruff demeanor and a relish for swapping stories with enlisted Marines, Gen. Gray endeared himself to rank-and-file troops. His bravado and colorful persona complemented a deep desire to shake up the service intellectually and encourage curiosity and problem-solving as the institution charted a long, uneven comeback from the defeat in Vietnam and the 1983 terrorist attacks that struck a U.S. military compound in Beirut.

  Gen. Gray, as a two-star general overseeing 2nd Marine Division in North Carolina, was alerted shortly after midnight Oct. 23, 1983, of the attack in Lebanon, which killed 241 American service members, mostly Marines. He spent hours working quietly before dawn, preparing for the chaos that was to come as families realized what happened, he later recalled. He attended more than 100 funerals.

  The bombing angered Americans and lawmakers and exposed the precariousness of the mission in Beirut. A subsequent Pentagon investigation faulted officers on the ground and more senior commanders for various missteps. Gen. Gray, who had no direct responsibility over the mission, was one of only a few officers who offered to resign, the Chicago Tribune reported in 1987. His request was declined.

  Gen. Gray took the deaths “very personally,” said retired Sgt. Maj. David W. Sommers, who worked alongside the general at the time and went on to serve as the top enlisted Marine during Gen. Gray’s tenure as commandant. Sommers told the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies that “it took us a while to get our feet back under us after Beirut,” and that Gen. Gray helped pull the Marines back together.

  “General Gray vowed to never again allow Marines to be placed in harm’s way without a purpose, a mission, and an intent clearly stated,” Sommers said in the institute’s publication “ Grayisms ,” which explored the general’s thinking.

  The general’s leadership impressed Jim Webb, a fellow Marine and Vietnam War combat veteran then serving as a senior Pentagon official in the Reagan administration. When it was time to select a new top Marine in 1987, Gen. Gray was not considered a top contender for the job. But Webb, by then the Navy secretary, nominated him anyway over the objection of the outgoing commandant, Gen. Paul X. Kelley , who was pulling for a different candidate.

  “He had a vision, and he could inspire people,” Webb said in a 2021 oral history for Marine Corps University. “When he would talk about different issues, there was a harmony there in terms of how the Marine Corps needed to move forward from where it was.”

  Retired Gen. John “Jack” Sheehan, who worked for Gen. Gray in several assignments and became a close friend, said that Gen. Gray was widely seen in the service as their best operational commander, but Kelley thought he lacked the polish to lead the service in Washington.

  Indeed, Gen. Gray stood out at the time for his distinct lack of polish. He had enlisted in the Marine Corps as a private in 1950 and had no college degree. He spent years at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Okinawa, and Quantico, Va., and was an expert in electronic warfare, but he had limited time in the kind of Washington staff positions that mark one for advancement to the highest level. He had an abundance, even an overabundance, of field experience, including two years fighting in Korea and five years in Vietnam, where he received the Silver Star for helping save fellow Marines who wandered into an enemy minefield.

  Rather than focusing on management studies, Gen. Gray said he planned for wars. “The only way that I know that you can fully prepare yourself for battle,” he liked to tell his officers, “is to know what the hell you’re doing. This requires study, this requires thinking, this requires talking to each other, this requires learning over a long period of time.”

  Sheehan said of Gen. Gray: “There were a lot of people who were politically smarter. But in those days, the Marine Corps needed someone who was operationally competent.”

  After then-Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger supported Webb’s choice, Gen. Gray huddled with Webb and made plans for change. About 18 of 67 generals were ushered out of the service within Gen. Gray’s first year as commandant, and he replaced them with people who shared his urgency for change, Webb recalled.

  Gen. Gray, in an interview with the New York Times published a month after he became the service’s 29th commandant, said that “standards of excellence” in the service needed to be raised, and he had rejected assertions from some in the service that the status quo was acceptable.

  He said he saw too many examples of recent history of events that cast the Marine Corps as incompetent or in a negative light, including the 1983 bombing in Lebanon, charges of espionage against Marine guards at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and the central role of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North in the Iran-contra scandal.

  “People have been trying to tell me it’s not broke,” Gen. Gray told the Times. “That’s wrong.”

  In a segment that aired on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” in 1988 , he told assembled Marines that there were “tough, hard decisions that have to be made now, and they cannot be made if your commandant wants to run a popularity contest.” The segment showed him puffing on a cigar and carried the headline “Papa Bear” — a reference to his radio call sign.

  Within his first two years as commandant, Gen. Gray launched several efforts that have endured. Among them were the creation of Marine Corps Combat Development Command, based at headquarters in Quantico, and envisioned as a new “brain” for the service; the establishment of Marine Corps University, which now oversees the service’s professional military education at Quantico; and the commissioning of “Warfighting,” a doctrine that pressed Marines to shift from old-school training and concepts to a style that was more nimble and creative.

  “Warfighting,” written by then-Capt. John F. Schmitt and published in 1989, is still widely taught in the Corps and has been published in numerous languages. Gen. Gray also created a service-wide reading list for the first time and assigned different books to members of each rank.

  “Anybody can be ready to get on a ship or get on an airplane,” Gen. Gray said in a 2015 panel discussion exploring the changes he made. “It’s are you prepared to win or be successful? That takes study and thought and ‘what if’ games. That’s how you get better.”

  Like other senior Marines at the time, Gen. Gray objected to fully integrating women in the Marine Corps. In 1988, he declared it a bad idea to make women pilots or embassy security guards, according to a wire service report at the time . Women are now widely accepted in both roles and more recently joined the infantry and other combat roles in limited numbers.

  Heroism in Vietnam

  Alfred Mason Gray Jr. was born June 22, 1928, and grew up in Rahway, N.J., and Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. Several of his mother’s relatives moved in with the family when they lost their jobs during the Depression, according to a Marine Corps history. His father was a railroad engineer.

  Gen. Gray entered Lafayette College in Pennsylvania on an athletic scholarship but left after three years for what he described as financial reasons. After doing construction and other jobs in manual labor, he enlisted in the Marines at the start of the Korean War. He rose rapidly, becoming a sergeant within about two years and then commissioning as an officer.

  Deployed to Vietnam, he served as the commanding officer of an artillery unit. On May 14, 1967, he oversaw three Marines who stumbled into a minefield at night, with one detonating an explosion that killed him and wounded the other two.

  Gen. Gray and another Marine “calmly and skillfully probed a cleared path forty meters through the unmarked minefield to the side of the wounded men,” according to his Silver Star citation . He directed the evacuation of the wounded Marines on stretchers through the path they had cleared in the minefield, and then eased his way to the mortally wounded Marine.

  His other decorations included the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Legion of Merit with “V” device noting combat, four Bronze Stars with “V” device and three awards of the Purple Heart.

  In 1975, as Saigon fell to North Vietnamese soldiers and the United States evacuated, Gen. Gray oversaw a regiment of Marines in the mission that — under intensely stressful circumstances — deftly helped remove more than 7,000 people by helicopter on April 29 and 30.

  Retired Gen. Paul K. Van Riper, who was selected by Gen. Gray to be the first president of Marine Corps University, said they were among a generation of officers who “were disillusioned with the whole war” and looking to effect change when they returned home.

  “We loved the Marines — they had performed superbly,” Van Riper said. “But we came back disgruntled and unsure of what had happened. We just knew that what we had been told had not worked out.”

  Gen. Gray was married to Jan Goss from 1980 until her death in 2020. He has no immediate survivors.

  After his military retirement in 1991, Gen. Gray received a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York system, served on boards of nonprofit organizations, led conversations at think tanks and universities, and regularly visited with rank-and-file Marines. He became known for wearing a distinctive sport coat fashioned out of the Marine Corps camouflage pattern. It was another effort, said retired Lt. Gen. George Flynn, a former aide, to highlight the rank-and-file who wear it the most.

  

  Super Hornet fighter jets on the deck of a US Navy aircraft carrier in the Red Sea are sporting Houthi drone kill marks

  • US Navy fighter jets have spent months fending off Houthi threats around the Red Sea.
  • Some of the aircraft have been seen sporting kill marks for the drones that they've shot down.
  • The drone silhouettes appear to resemble the KAS-04, or Samad, system.
  

  US Navy fighter aircraft that have been battling Houthi drones and missiles around the Red Sea appear to be sporting kill marks reflecting the threats they've eliminated.

  A photo published by the Navy last week shows the silhouettes of two drones and 11 munitions painted on the side of an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, a lead ship in the US military's response to the ongoing Houthi attacks off the coast of Yemen.

  The drone silhouettes painted on the side of the Navy Super Hornet appear to resemble the Houthis' KAS-04 system. The US military confirmed in November that it shot down an Iranian-made KAS-04 , which is also known as a Samad drone, but for the most part, the model of drones that American forces engage has not been disclosed.

  Fighter jets belonging to the Eisenhower's carrier air wing , like the Super Hornet pictured, have been tasked with intercepting Houthi threats in the air and also bombing the Iran-backed rebels directly in Yemen through a mix of both unilateral preemptive strikes and coordinated strikes with US allies.

  The munitions painted on the Super Hornet in last week's Navy photo appear to signal the number of bombs dropped by the aircraft in such strikes, according to the BBC, which captured its own images of the silhouettes during a recent embark on the Eisenhower.

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  The specific meaning of the munition markings is unclear, but Business Insider observed similar markings on at least one fighter jet during a visit to the Eisenhower in the Red Sea last month.

  The painted silhouettes photographed by BI, the BBC, and the Navy resemble kill marks, or victory marking, which typically refers to systems that were shot down by an aircraft's crew in aerial engagements. This practice has a long history dating back to World War I and has been used by other militaries beyond the US.

  US Central Command, or CENTCOM, did not immediately respond to BI's request seeking clarification on the markings in the photo published by the Navy last week, nor did it specify what munitions have been released by fighter jets in the Ike's carrier air wing.

  For months, US and allied warships and aircraft have been destroying deadly threats like anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles, one-way attack drones, and unmanned underwater and surface vessels, as they defend international shipping lanes off the coast of Yemen from unrelenting Houthi attacks.

  Some of the Houthi missiles and drones have successfully scored hits on commercial ships transiting these key Middle Eastern waters, although the incidents mostly caused minor damage and did not prevent the vessels from continuing on with their journeys.

  But in recent weeks, the Houthis have managed to both sink a vessel and kill civilian crew members for the first time in two separate attacks involving anti-ship ballistic missiles .

  US forces are now engaging the Houthis — either through preemptive strikes or intercepting their threats in the air — on a routine basis, raising questions about the sustainability of the US-led coalition as it continues to expend resources and munitions.

  Navy leadership, however, has stressed that Carrier Strike Group 2 — which consists of the Ike, four destroyers, and a cruiser — will stay in the region for as long as they're needed.

  Pentagon officials continue to emphasize that the preemptive strikes in Yemen are chipping away at the Houthi arsenal and capabilities, but they acknowledge that the rebels continue to receive weaponry and support from Iran.

  "We're under no impression that we have completely wiped off the map all of the Houthis' capabilities," Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters last week. "We know that they continue to have a robust arsenal, they continue to threaten commercial shipping."

  Watch: What it's like on board a US aircraft carrier fighting Houthis in the Red Sea

  
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