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2024-01-19 Arabia

US attacks 14 Yemeni Houthi missile launchers

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Posted by badanov 2024-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 Sometimes "making a gesture" is worse than not doing anything at all.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-19 00:27|| 2024-01-19 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope you don't expect this administration to do anything right grom.

Posted by Chris 2024-01-19 05:03|| 2024-01-19 05:03|| Front Page Top

#3 ^IMO, Western Elites do everything right - if you assume that they are secretly ruled by aliens whose purpose is extermination of Humanity.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-19 07:11|| 2024-01-19 07:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Houthis say Russian and Chinese ships are free to pass through the Red Sea without being fired upon - and blast US and UK for 'playing against themselves' by carrying out strikes in Yemen

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-19 11:00|| 2024-01-19 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 “When you say working, are they stopping the Houthis?” Biden said in an exchange with reporters in Washington, D.C. “No. Are they going to continue? Yes.” The White House redesignated the Houthis as a terrorist organization on Wednesday, after delisting the group in 2021.
Sounds like all of Biden's projects.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-01-19 12:13|| 2024-01-19 12:13|| Front Page Top

Wag the Dog - Here's a Houthi missile launch site. These strikes are not an effective deter.

Posted by mossomo 2024-01-19 12:38|| 2024-01-19 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ You are correct. It's not like the DoD didn't have 20 plus years of fighting against this sort of primitive enemy in Afghanistan to figure it out.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-19 12:48|| 2024-01-19 12:48|| Front Page Top

#8 props to intel and the Central Command for locating the launchers and blowing them up

unfortunately the Houthis may have a hundred or so launchers remaining

Posted by lord garth 2024-01-19 13:11|| 2024-01-19 13:11|| Front Page Top

#9 #6 - Mossomo - please limit width to <500, thx

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-19 13:18|| 2024-01-19 13:18|| Front Page Top

#10 “[I have] no idea what specific doctrine our ships are using in the Red Sea, but you generally train to use multiple missiles per engagement,” Holmes said. “If it’s an SM-2 engagement … the latest variant of the SM-2 seems to run about $2.4 million per round, so you’re talking just under $5 million to bring down what is probably an inexpensive threat. And again, weapons expended in the Red Sea are weapons not available in the primary theater, East Asia, and are not quickly replaced.”

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/01/18/what-the-navy-is-learning-from-its-fight-in-the-red-sea/

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

#11 The "inexpensive threat" brings a huge ROI if it damages a naval vessel.

Some call this "asymmetrical warfare."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-19 13:27|| 2024-01-19 13:27|| Front Page Top

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