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2025-01-06 Arabia

Yemeni Houthis receive advanced components for ballistic and cruise missiles from China

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Posted by Fred 2025-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 How did these items arrive in Houthistan? Transporter beams from the Middle Kingdom?

Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2025-01-06 00:52|| 2025-01-06 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Arc Light time.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-01-06 03:13|| 2025-01-06 03:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Hospitals in China overwhelmed by surge in HMPV patients raising concerns about a new epidemic

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-06 03:35|| 2025-01-06 03:35|| Front Page Top

#4 A Trump move: Eliminate all plane flights and ship visits from PRC.

Posted by Glusomp Spealet4328 2025-01-06 09:47|| 2025-01-06 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 How about eliminating all docking facilities in Houthi-held territory? It's not as if the Houthis have already been waging maritime war against most world shipping, i.e. "piracy"

Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2025-01-06 11:50|| 2025-01-06 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder what passes for "advanced components" in the minds of journalists. Fleming valves? Discrete transistors? Those little black plastic chips that look like bugs?

Nowadays, an off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi fits in your hand and is 4 times faster than the Cray-1, an old-school super computer that was so big they made it into furniture.

Posted by SteveS 2025-01-06 12:13|| 2025-01-06 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Mine ~~Haiphong~~ Houthi Harbors

Posted by Frank G 2025-01-06 12:48|| 2025-01-06 12:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Somehow I recall that this is exactly what we have a US Navy ARG with a maritime infantry (USMC) striking force to deal with? Wouldn't take long to eliminate the problem.

Heck, imagine the smile if the Navy still had an Iowa Class BB which just sailed off the coast and ignored the mosquito bites of the drones because it had armor to protect the ship from the plunging fire of IJN battleship 14 inch guns, and delivered a few 16 inch salvo;s to the annoying sites!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-01-06 14:36|| 2025-01-06 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^ Iowa Class BBs' main gun armament were 16 inch rifles.

Posted by badanov 2025-01-06 14:39|| 2025-01-06 14:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Time to sabotage "The Belt and Road Initiative"?

Posted by 3dc 2025-01-06 15:49|| 2025-01-06 15:49|| Front Page Top

#11 How did these items arrive in Houthistan? Transporter beams from the Middle Kingdom?

They were probably unloaded at the Chinese base in Djibouti (you know, the one with the big underground storage area) and from there they could be shipped over to Yemen by helicopter.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-01-06 16:11|| 2025-01-06 16:11|| Front Page Top

#12 ^Thing, long time.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-06 16:17|| 2025-01-06 16:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Here's the first link that came up when I searched on "Chinese base djibouti underground bunker":

https://www.twz.com/12959/chinas-base-in-the-horn-of-african-has-a-huge-underground-bunker.

That's from 2020.

So they were preparing for the last year and a half of attacks back then.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-01-06 16:22|| 2025-01-06 16:22|| Front Page Top

#14 The US, China, France and Japan (!) all have bases in Djibouti. Plus Blackwater, Wagner and a few other PMC's. That's a live locale. If any of the interested parties actually desired to get up close and personal with one another it'd be easy to arrange. Clearly - none of them have that intention.

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-01-06 17:08|| 2025-01-06 17:08|| Front Page Top

#15 Our Task Force Horn of Africa has been there for decades.

Posted by Difar Dave 2025-01-06 17:27|| 2025-01-06 17:27|| Front Page Top

#16 If that were the case, we could have just used our base in Djibouti to perform airstrikes on the Houthis rather than using carrier aircraft...

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-01-06 18:05|| 2025-01-06 18:05|| Front Page Top

#17 You don't need to be a Houthi to hang out in Djibouti,
The cool kids are already there.
From your favorite PMC, to those guys with letters three,
It's a rootin' tootin' shoot 'em up affair.

Posted by SteveS 2025-01-06 18:38|| 2025-01-06 18:38|| Front Page Top

#18 imagine the smile if the Navy still had an Iowa Class BB

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War is a 2015 techno-thriller

United States Navy reserve fleets

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-06 22:53|| 2025-01-06 22:53|| Front Page Top

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