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15/01/24

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Originally posted by gve: ↑

The United States does not have enough bombs to force Yemen to surrender. Why? Yemen’s rocket and missile force is mobile. They can move dozens of missiles at the same time in different directions, which then forces the United States, notwithstanding robust ISR, to find the needles in the haystack that is Yemen. The U.S. can kill and destroy some, but not all. But that is not the big problem. The U.S. Navy does not have the ability to sustain its presence off the coast of Yemen.
Neither the US nor the British ships can be reprovisioned at sea, so they have a limited ability to “stay in the fight” if it continues for any length of time.
Yemen can launch a hundred drones and missiles at U.S. ships and the destroyer escorts will exhaust their supply of air defense missiles. In the 1970s the U.S. Navy had ship tenders that could pull alongside a destroyer and resupply it. Not today. The Vertical Launch Systems have to be reloaded in a port. That means the destroyers will have to sail to Dubai, which means the U.S. aircraft carrier they are accompanying will have to follow because it relies on them for protection from ballistic and cruise missiles.
Yemen is showing how a so-called third rate military can effectively bankrupt the Naval power of a “Superpower.” The neo-cons urging Biden to attack Iran are math challenged. Iran has more missiles, drones and rockets than Yemen. If little Yemen is doing this to the U.S., just imagine the havoc Iran could cause.
https://sonar21.com/u-s-is-painting-itself-into-a-corner-in-the-red-sea/

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Talking about missiles and rockets that the Houthis fire, they (many / most?) are probably as cheap to manufacture as the ones fired by Hamas - around 2k USD each, while the Israelis (and probably Americans as well) are shooting them down using rockets that cost up to 100k USD each.

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