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2024-01-13 Arabia

USS Philippine Sea, USS Gravely, and USS Mason launched over 80 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Houthi targets

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Posted by Fred 2024-01-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 For some reason, my comment went missing. Maybe a database error.Let's try it again:
For anyone wondering why this is all happening, the Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sare a response to Israeli crimes against humanity in Gaza. Also unmentioned is the fact that the strikes took place after the first day of proceedings in the International Court of Justice in which Israel stands accused by South Africa of committing a genocide in Gaza. This explains the timing of Biden's response.

So the US and the UK just bombed the poorest country i~n the middle east for trying to stop a genocide. Not only that, they bombed the very same country in which they just spent years backing Saudi Arabia’s genocidal atrocities which killed hundreds of thousands of people between 2015 and 2022 in an unsuccessful bid to stop the Houthis from taking power.

Posted by Phugum Uluth9531 2024-01-13 02:18|| 2024-01-13 02:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe south africa should worry about their own problems. This is in refernce to the first comment, I don't believe anyone here needs any explaining about the situation from an 18 year old full of shit (maybe) college student or just a dumbass.

Posted by Chris 2024-01-13 05:20|| 2024-01-13 05:20|| Front Page Top

#3 It was no database error, Phugum Uluth9531. That much stupidity in the middle of the night was simply too much to bear.

Chris is right, though — your particular combination of illogical, ahistoric, vacuously self-righteous Jew-hate doesn’t get as far as sophomoric.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-13 06:59|| 2024-01-13 06:59|| Front Page Top

#4 If you are a county that has cities where people are defecating on the sidewalks, you have enough problems to take care of. It is a symptom of many things probably messed up. Stay at home and work on these problems.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-13 07:10|| 2024-01-13 07:10|| Front Page Top

#5 It's because the apartheid regime in South Africa and Israel were so close for decades. The ANC, murderous necklacing bastards that they are, harbor a special animus for Israel because they helped with apartheid.

South Africa and Israel were so close that they famously tested an atom bomb together.

Posted by Butch Spump3316 2024-01-13 07:12|| 2024-01-13 07:12|| Front Page Top

#6 ..you left out Taiwan in that cooperative effort.

The situation for idiots.

..and what is going on.

Act as proxies for Iran and pay the price.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-13 07:26|| 2024-01-13 07:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Refreshing.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-13 07:39|| 2024-01-13 07:39|| Front Page Top

#8 For some reason, my comment went missing.

Drat! The incantation I've used was supposed to get rid of the alien parasite in your brain, Golum Untruth.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-13 07:41|| 2024-01-13 07:41|| Front Page Top

#9 We've come a ways since Bath House tried to shut down Tomahawk production.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-13 07:47|| 2024-01-13 07:47|| Front Page Top

#10 ...strangely enough, under DEI's apartheid its notoktobewhitestraightmale.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-13 08:16|| 2024-01-13 08:16|| Front Page Top

#11 I still blame The Blowfish.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-01-13 08:16|| 2024-01-13 08:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Sissy

Posted by Itsoktobewhite 2024-01-13 08:32|| 2024-01-13 08:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Tomahawk sounds racist can we change the name to HouthiBlockers or Transitioning Missles

Posted by Airandee 2024-01-13 08:51|| 2024-01-13 08:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Is Frank deleting posts again? I thought he out grew that. Why not change the banner from Civil, Well Reasoned... to Only those who agree with Frank?

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2024-01-13 09:22|| 2024-01-13 09:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry to keep harping on math again. Each of these ships has 90 vertical launch cells (270 total). Collectively they fired 80 tomahawks in 24 hours. That leaves at best 190 loaded cells. Let’s be kind and say 5% offline for maintenance and 5% expended on surface to air shots already. That’d leave about 170 cells loaded. Those will be a mix of surface to air, anti-radiation, close defense and tomahawks etc. The cells cannot be reloaded at sea - at a pre-determined level the ships need to leave the area and go to a port where munitions are prepositioned for reloading (Djibouti, Bahrain, Diego, etc.). Looks like those three ships have one more surge firing available before they need to consider the number of active cells remaining

Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2024-01-13 09:23|| 2024-01-13 09:23|| Front Page Top

#16 /\ Thanks for the insightful gouge SP. Don't be a a stranger.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-13 09:28|| 2024-01-13 09:28|| Front Page Top

#17 yemen is the wrong target, iran is the enemy.
occupy chah bahar.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-01-13 12:48|| 2024-01-13 12:48|| Front Page Top

#18 Macro F7

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-13 13:05|| 2024-01-13 13:05|| Front Page Top

#19 Irish, In WW2, the first country invaded by the US after Pearl Harbor was - Morocco. An enemy can be in more than one place at one time.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-01-13 17:58|| 2024-01-13 17:58|| Front Page Top

#20 #15 Sorry to keep harping on math again.

No sorries needed! Arithmetic always wins in the end, no matter how much management hopes otherwise.
If you ignore the shooting part, war is basically a resource management game.

Posted by SteveS 2024-01-13 18:16|| 2024-01-13 18:16|| Front Page Top

#21 #14Is Frank deleting posts again? I thought he out grew that. Why not change the banner from Civil, Well Reasoned... to Only those who agree with Frank?
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed

Nope, but I am able to show them at actual ~~size~~ importance

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-13 19:19|| 2024-01-13 19:19|| Front Page Top

#22 to Only those who agree with Frank?

The rule is Don’t Anger Trailing Wife, my dear. I’m slower to figure such things out than Frank G and the others, so they patiently wait for me to realize they were right.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-13 21:09|| 2024-01-13 21:09|| Front Page Top

#23 The deleted post criticized Frank’s censorship. Nothing more nothing less.

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