90 Missile Cells, No Reloading at Sea: USS Carney Against the Houthis #militaryhistory #sandtabul

USS Carney's 90 launch cells could not be reloaded at sea. From October 2023, the destroyer used them against Houthi drones, cruise missiles and, in time, anti-ship ballistic missiles — 51 engagements in six months, the chief of naval operations said. Carney took on fuel and supplies at sea, CBS reported, but missiles were too big to transfer under way. Warships that could not rearm at sea had to go back to port, sometimes thousands of miles away, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said. Across the fleet, ships fired 220 missiles in the Red Sea fighting, by the count of Vice Adm. Brendan McLane — about two rounds per incoming missile, by the Navy's own analysis. We found no public record of Carney's own share. Less than five months after Carney came home, the cruiser USS Chosin lowered a canister into its launcher at sea — the first demonstration on a warship under way in the open ocean, the Navy said. The canister was empty. The whole deployment — the first fight, the Gulf of Aden, the burning tanker and the count that came after — is in the main film (about 11 minutes): [main film link — added after upload] Sources · U.S. Navy — “USS Carney Returns Home from Historic Deployment,” May 2024 · U.S. Navy photographs (DVIDS), 2023–2024 · U.S. Central Command — releases of December 16, 2023, and January 13 and 26, 2024 · David Martin — “USS Carney returns from a Middle East deployment unlike any other,” CBS News Sunday Morning, June 30, 2024 · Heather Mongilio — USNI News, May 20, 2024 · Patty Nieberg — Task & Purpose, May 20, 2024 · USNI News, October 15, 2024 · Naval Sea Systems Command — “Navy Demonstrates First At-Sea Reloading of Vertical Launching System,” October 15, 2024 · Howard Altman — The War Zone, January 14, 2025 · Geoff Ziezulewicz — The War Zone, January 16, 2025 · Military.com, January 15, 2025 · Edward J. Walsh — “Vertical Launch Systems Evolve,” Proceedings, October 2023 · Naval History and Heritage Command · Headline shown: CBS News, December 16, 2023 The 3D scenes are a directed reconstruction built from the records with carved models, not footage of the events. The narration is a synthetic voice. The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement. #shorts #USSCarney #USNavy #RedSea #Houthis #Destroyer #MilitaryHistory #SANDTABUL SANDTABUL · Warfare, set out on the sand table. Battles, operations and the machines of war, re-staged in carved 3D and placed in the world that shaped them.