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2019-05-20 Arabia
Houthi's launch IRBM at Mecca!
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Posted by 3dc 2019-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
 File under: Houthis 

#1 "saudi air defenses"??? Built in the US or in Israel?
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2019-05-20 00:22||   2019-05-20 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I think they bought the MM23 Hawk systems from Raytheon. They buy from all over actually. Recently bought IRBMs from China.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-05-20 05:22||   2019-05-20 05:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Richard Aubrey: Saudi Arabian Patriot air defence batteries engaged Iranian-made Houthi ballistic missiles over Jeddah and Taif this morning
Posted by 3dc 2019-05-20 05:55||   2019-05-20 05:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Something that should have been done by someone right after 9-11. Suggest operational name, "Doolittle’s Raiders".

Instead of sneaking bin Laden's family out of our country.
Posted by Woodrow 2019-05-20 07:18||   2019-05-20 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Hajj 2019® is coming up soon.

Wonder if this isn't testing a backdoor method to reduce 'tourists' and thereby cutting into SA's economy and stature.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-05-20 09:32||   2019-05-20 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Near Mecca, eh? If one had a submarine with a couple spare cruise missiles and wanted to do a little pot-stirring....
Speaking hypothetically, of course.
Posted by SteveS 2019-05-20 10:13||   2019-05-20 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 You guys missed it. Try again and adjust for windage this time!
Posted by DarthVader 2019-05-20 10:32||   2019-05-20 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Missed it by just this much. ----Don Adams
Posted by AlanC 2019-05-20 11:06||   2019-05-20 11:06|| Front Page Top

#9 #1 The Saudis are buying several billion dollars of the latest US ABMs. And in numbers to take out a "saturation" attack.

Any Israeli involvement has been "greenwashed" though American companies.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-05-20 13:47||   2019-05-20 13:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Shoot. Mr. Wife takes me away for a few days, and certain people out there start getting overexcited.

Good catch, 3dc. Thank you for being on top of this for us.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-05-20 19:31||   2019-05-20 19:31|| Front Page Top

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