On board Royal Navy ship as it faces Houthi attacks | BBC News

The captain of a Royal Navy war

ship

in the Red Sea told the BBC that

attacks

are becoming deadlier and the Houthis in Yemen are launching more ballistic and cruise missiles, which are harder to defend against. The Houthis say they are targeting merchant and war

ship

s in solidarity. with the Palestinians in Gaza our defense correspondent Jonathan Beal is the first journalist to join the destroyer HMS Diamond as it

faces

threats in the Red Sea security security security this is the listening channel of the coalition warship6 the HMS Diamond of The Royal Navy sailing in the Red Sea towards danger they're here to protect merchant shipping and this mission is to escort a naval task force and they are armed and ready.

This task force has now entered the high threat area and as you can see they are preparing to engage the hoies in the operations room the ship's ner n center they already dawned in fir protective clothing with their powerful radar they can track multiple objects hundreds of miles away and this is what happens when they identify a threatening fireball 293 165 away the drills they have rehearsed many times before air threat warning red air threat warning incoming red missile for ship St quarter time left 2 minutes but now it's deadly serious this of the two occasions we witnessed when the huth fired ballistic missiles traveling at more than three times the speed of sound says the missile has splashed in the water to the north of the group of work, therefore the air warning is now yellow.

The air warning is now yellow. Between the time it is fired and the time it hits you have approximately two minutes to react, that is why we are in It is why we wear our clothes all the time so that within that period of time we have the correct posture to being able to deal with it, but yeah, it can feel a little intense, obviously someone is trying to shoot something at you. You drones are the other danger, which is a UAV with three rings, now it has two born in the north, obviously in position, now we anticipate that they may come to the south.

The aerial threat warning is quite powerful, it is a potentially deadly version of the hideout, but not the Drone. This time I don't detect them. Diamond hasn't fired the main marine Viper missiles from her, but she has already shot down nine drones, seven of them in just one January night and that kind of R. Diamond's Captain believes they have saved lives, but they have. They didn't stop the increasingly sophisticated Houthi

attacks

, it seems to me that they are using more advanced and more lethal weapons than in the early parts of the operation and where are they getting them from?

I couldn't tell you that I'm afraid they were smuggled in from somewhere, but I'd be speculating, but Diamond is looking for suspicious activity. Bard a da. He is declared stateless, but flies an Iranian flag. The search does not find anything illegal. It is proving just as difficult to stop the flow of weapons to stop Houthi attacks Jonathan be