Yemeni Conflict: News #3

Isos wrote:Israeli have AWACS too. But just like any other country they can't keep them airborne all the time.

AWACS radar will also be detected by iranian passive detectors and allow them to know when to launch the attack (when they don't detect anything).

And they probably have intel' from Russia about israel AD positions.

IMO Iran will use cruise missiles instead of ballistic missiles. Much easier to succeed and already used against Saudi Arabia.

It looks like these aircraft are going to help the Saudis defend against missiles originating in Yemem. Like last week.

Again

@The Associated Press

An explosion rocked a ship off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jiddah on the Red Sea .

Later the Saudi TV said it's a suicide boat , they closed the port temporarily.

Video of a black smoke in Jeddah
https://twitter.com/ahsas990099/status/1338331285807357953

2 conflicts in parallel . The situation in Yemen is a mess

Saudi and UAE backed forces clash in southern Yemen as tensions flare up

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:40 P.M.) – A renewed exchange of artillery between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council in the Abyan Governorate took place on Friday, resulting in a new wave of hostilities.

The spokesman for the Transitional Council forces in the Fourth Military Region and the Abyan Axis front, Muhammad al-Naqib, said on his Twitter account, that the forces of President Abd Rabbah Mansour Hadi’s government were responsible for violating the ceasefire regime in southern Yemen.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/saudi-and-uae-backed-forces-clash-in-southern-yemen-as-tensions-flare-up/

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uRvFB_1609345152

PhSt wrote:https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uRvFB_1609345152

What a mess ! i remember some Saudis who said they have a good airforce so they will end the issue in a matter of months .

But look now after around 6 years of the Saudi intervention , even they can't protect the government there .

ahmedfire wrote:

PhSt wrote:https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uRvFB_1609345152

What a mess ! i remember some Saudis who said they have a good airforce so they will end the issue in a matter of months .

But look now after around 6 years of the Saudi intervention , even they can't protect the government there .

This is Allah's karma for the morally bankrupt Saudi's, and they're facing an Afghan War on their own borders. The SaudiMight Military should be happy the Eurasian powers haven't supported them to the extent that the Saudi's have supported insurgencies, otherwise Eastern Saudi Arabia would be a separate country right now.

When I see the results of Saudi Arabia screwing up these fights, it is like another look at similarly to India's military. All the mixed "best of the best" equipment doesn't win wars.

As soon as there is money trouble, they won't be able to field half the equipment they got.

Another video of battles in the Yemeni province of Ed-Dali between the Houthis and supporters of President Hadi, in which the T-34s were used. The Houthis captured the T-34-85 of the Hadis, finished off the crew, pulled out the ammunition, and then burned the tank.

The indian mig-21 pilots was a squadron leader so very trained pilot yet he went alone against 6 or 7 more advanced fighter to fight.

If this what you call competant then what is uncompetant ?

Isos wrote:The indian mig-21 pilots was a squadron leader so very trained pilot yet he went alone against 6 or 7 more advanced fighter to fight.

If this what you call competant then what is uncompetant ?

IAF is probably incompetent ( assuming they missed their target - jihadi training facility the previous day) but not for the above reason.

Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 succumbed to electronic jamming carried out by PAF. So he could not receive the instruction from ground control to return. At supersonic speed it takes a fraction of a second to cross the border, assuming his Mig-21 did cross the Line of Control (LoC). Not that he wanted to fight 2-3 PAF fighters.

They know the region very well and know where the border is. Russian fighters don't need maps anymore in Syria. You get used to the terrain and know where you are without maps when you fly in a zone for a long time.

He had locked onto a paf jet and wanted to kill it and forgot the rest of paf fighters. No excuses. He was ambushed like a kid. He followed a fighter going away so no range for its missiles but was closing towards a PAF fighter at high speed so gave him the occasion to launch its missiles at max range.

The failed attack in the mountains isn't incompetance. Thry just used israeli shitty systems.

Saudi pilots are quite well trained. It's just that the political power has no idea what they are doing and sends them in the desert unprepared to fight a guerilla they can't see.

Isos wrote:The indian mig-21 pilots was a squadron leader so very trained pilot yet he went alone against 6 or 7 more advanced fighter to fight.

If this what you call competant then what is uncompetant ?

Completely incompetent, apart from being corrupt. Last year got their ass handed out to them by the Chinese. Yet the Indians could not fight back. 10 months later the Chinese are digging in their heels and the Hindus neither have the guts nor the means to expel them.

Isos wrote:The failed attack in the mountains isn't incompetance. Thry just used israeli shitty systems.

Possible. It's quite possible that SPICE-2000 is quite a mediocre weapon. But as this latest report shows, Indian AF is procuring more SPICE and also HAMMER from France.

The IAF denied those charges (of missing the target) and released these details stating that the target was hit.

https://theprint.in/opinion/balakot-air-strike-why-iaf-used-907-kg-penetrator-bombs-to-target-jaish-terror-camp/205227/

Why procure both HAMMER and SPICE? Basically they are of the same type. I do not know.

This same report also states that a number of Russian air to air and cruise missiles like Kh-31 is being procured.

https://theprint.in/defence/india-stocks-up-missile-arsenal-as-it-prepares-for-another-tense-summer-in-ladakh/576386/

Kh-31 is anti radiation. Those jihadis who were targeted apparently had 300 plus mobile phones that were switched on. IAF could have used Kh-31 to target that camp.

Isos wrote:Saudi pilots are quite well trained. It's just that the political power has no idea what they are doing and sends them in the desert unprepared to fight a guerilla they can't see.

Most middle eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain train their Air Force pilots quite well. Moreover, countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE also recruit regular pilots from Pakistan to boost their own capability.

George1 wrote:Another video of battles in the Yemeni province of Ed-Dali between the Houthis and supporters of President Hadi, in which the T-34s were used. The Houthis captured the T-34-85 of the Hadis, finished off the crew, pulled out the ammunition, and then burned the tank.

Whether an M1 Abrams or a T-34 it seems to make no difference to the Houthis

They'll burn that sucker and chant in front of it

And now something diferent.

This is major news. Assume the UK will pull out too.

Steve Herman
@W7VOA
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End to offensive operations by the US regarding #Yemen
"does not extend to actions against #AQAP," explains @JakeSullivan46
, adding #KSA and #UAE have been briefed and "they understand" the changes being made by the administration


Conflict News
@Conflicts
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BREAKING: @jakejsullivan
announces that US President Biden will end all American support for offensive operations in Yemen - @laraseligman.

He thinks people will forget that they helped under Obama and not just under Trump ? Or maybe he thinks he killed enough Yemenis ?

Offensive operations. I guess that doesn't include the naval blockade ? That's what is killing the most people.

JohninMK wrote:spriters
@neccamc1
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#US plans to revoke terrorist designations on #Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement that were put in place in final months of Trump administration, State Department said on Friday night

The White House will cancel the inclusion of the Yemeni Houthis (Ansar Allah) in the list of terrorist organizations for humanitarian reasons.

Terrorist are people who creates terror among a population. Houtis never attacked deliberately civilians. They are a guerilla.

US should put themselves on that list.

No indication as to how this will affect the USN and the blockade.


Idrees Ali
@idreesali114
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The Pentagon confirms that after Biden's directive from yesterday, the US military has "terminated" the limited intel sharing on Yemen with Saudi Arabia.

It should end it... but with the americans who knows...

They aren't fighting terrorists in Syria either...

GarryB wrote:It should end it... but with the americans who knows...

They aren't fighting terrorists in Syria either...

At least in Yemen there are no known US boots on the ground.

Today Houthi attacked on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport, plane catches fire .

#Houthi’s confirm the targeting of Abha Airport with Samad-3 and Qassef-2K drones.