The United States will send a guided-missile destroyer and fifth-generation fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates in the wake of recent missile attacks by Yemen-based Houthi rebels, Washington’s top military official has said.
In a phone call on Tuesday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Abu bin Zayed Al Nahyan the Pentagon would send the “guided-missile destroyer USS Cole to partner with the UAE Navy before making a port call in Abu Dhabi”.
Austin also told the crown prince that Washington would deploy fifth-generation fighter aircraft, a classification that includes US-made F-22 Raptor and F-53 Lighting II combat jets, to the UAE to “assist against the current threat”, according to a readout of the conversation released by the Pentagon.
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