{"id":15773,"date":"2024-03-12T13:28:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2024-03-12T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:28:37","slug":"italian-navy-ship-downs-two-drones-in-the-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/italian-navy-ship-downs-two-drones-in-the-red-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Navy Ship Downs Two Drones in the Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Italian military vessel serving in the European Union\u2019s naval mission in the Red Sea has shot down two drones, Italy\u2019s Defense Staff said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, it described the incidents involving the Italian Navy\u2019s \u201cCaio Duilio\u201d destroyer as acts of self-defense, without elaborating. The same ship had shot down another drone earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s mission in the Red Sea, dubbed Aspides, was launched in February to help protect the key maritime trade route from drone and missile attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthi militia, who say they are retaliating against Israel\u2019s war on Gaza.<br \/>\nItaly has supplied the admiral in command of Aspides, which means \u201cprotector\u201d in ancient Greek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 An Italian military vessel serving in the European Union\u2019s naval mission in the Red Sea has shot down two drones, Italy\u2019s Defense Staff said on Tuesday. In a statement, it described the incidents involving the Italian Navy\u2019s \u201cCaio Duilio\u201d destroyer as acts of self-defense, without elaborating. The same ship had shot &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15775,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/15775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}