How do you reload a warship ?

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

In the context of the Houthis launching drones against western ships.

So I heard that recently, both French and US warships have been targetted by Houthis drone and had to shoot some missiles to get rid of them.

Shooting 2 missiles isn’t necessarily a big deal, but assuming the thing don’t calm down, a warship shooting two missiles a day will quickly run low in Sea to Air missile.

How easy is to reload a warship ? Can you have navy helicopter dropping some missiles to the ship so they extend the patrol ? Can you transport naval missile in a cargo plane so you can reload them in a “remote” naval-base (thinking about the French base in Djibouti for example) or do they have to sail all the way to their home base (Effectively limiting the ability to keep boats patrolling on zone) ?

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theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ5QfDt_Z0g

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- otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s like this video was made to be commented in this thread. It uses the same conflict as an example and it covers the same details from the question
  
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  - Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The crazy part is that this video was made already one month ago, I didn’t realized warship started to intercept drones that early.
    
    I hope a war won’t start, but It may-be an interesting conflict to watch, and with the massive impact cheap drones have in Ukraine and Armenia it may-be less asymmetric than the previous ones. A pitty that one more time kids will come back in wooden box to please a few rich assholes owning stocks in the defence industry.
    
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Chup@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In a selected port, with a crane. That’s basically the tl;dr from the video Kalash posted at 4:23 time index.

But the Houthis didn’t fire at warships. I know some outlets had similar sounding titles but they were clickbait and their own articles were contradicting their title. The Houthis were firing towards merchant vessels and within 20 km or so, there was also a warship, which then reacted.

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