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Read previewA Houthi anti-ship cruise missile fired into the Red Sea came within a mile of a US Navy destroyer on Tuesday, a report said, close enough that the American warship turned to its close-in weapons system — a last line of defense.
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The USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer in the US Navy, transits during a passing exercise off the coast of Greenland.
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