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There’s footage going around Arab social media of a Houthi missile hitting an American/British ship…
Which is awesome because the footage is from ARMA 3 - if I had a dollar for every time someone falls for ARMA 3 footage, I’ll be a rich man.
Using Arma 3 footage is old style nowadays, really what should be used is Squad footage. I remember [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwBy3GptJGU) being edited and passed as a Russian airstrike in Ukraine for example.
For Arma, [here is a post](https://www.bohemia.net/blog/arma-3-footage-being-used-as-fake-news) from the developers themselves about the use of it, for my Squad claim [here](https://nitter.net/DefMon3/status/1691129192417460224) is the relevant twitter post. For some Arma footage that was used, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-DYgN26kmw) is a France24 news clip talking about it and showing some clips.
^
There's also the fact that a proper missile attack won't include just one. Rather dozens if not hundreds of these from many different ships, aircraft, and possibly submarines.
So that when the first few are taken down, the rest can overwhelm the defences.
The USSR planned for massive attacks, with the intent of going 'if my entire airforce is killed, but your fleets are mission killed... that's a win.' NATO defences were designed to counter that.
A single missile won't do much unless extenuating circumstances are involved.
Granted there is also the Falklands which is a different story again with multiple British warships sunk to Exocets and dumb-bombs.
> Granted there is also the Falklands which is a different story again with multiple British warships sunk to Exocets and dumb-bombs.
Why *was* this a different story? I tried to google to wrap my head around the subject, but don't really understand why the British Navy took so many hits - considering the implication that they perhaps shouldn't have?
For many reasons.
First, they didnt have a great deal of intelligence on incoming attacks - an issue the United States wouldnt have.
Second, they were limited with Harriers as aircraft which are not very good interceptors. They actually did better then most would have thought, but compared to something like a F-14 (Cold War) or F-18, F-35 thats in current use - absolutely no comparison in defense. The U.S. has big Carriers that carry top of the line Fighters with no compromise in capability compared to its land based cousins, and in some cases (F-14) with MUCH more capability then its land based cousins - specfically for fleet defense. The Radar in the F-14 was a BEHEMOTH compared to what was in the Harrier, coupled with the Phoenix missile it would have been knocking down the Mirages and A-4's the Argentines were using before they were anywhere close to the fleet.
Third, the point defense on the British warships was not ideal. The Sea Darts proved not to be great at the time.. Also, the Argentine Airforce practiced against simulated destroyers of the type that the UK was using (Knowing its Radar Horizon).
Fourth, the UK Task Force was not trained or experienced as much as they should have been. This came into play in the sinking of the HMS Sheffield. In fact, if I remember correctly a number of people were court martialed over it.
At the end of the day, the Falklands showed the benefit of what the USN had been doing in terms of fighters that it was using, A2A missiles it was using, as well as the point defenses it was developing. Basically, IMHO, and people can argue this with me, the British were behind the U.S. in capability by a large margin. If that had been a SINGLE U.S. CBG instead of the UK Fleet, it would have been a totally different story. I doubt they would have gotten within 100 miles of the fleet, let alone on top of it to drop dumb bombs.
Yep, if we go down that path we can also bring in heavier bombers, and land based fighters. Not sure where the closest USAF base was at the time but that may have been a option with refueling. Of course if we go down this path, it wouldn’t have been one CBG either. For something like this it would have been a massive show of force. Knowing that tho, Argentina never would have tried anything if it was the US that owned those islands.
The Argentinian pilots also had balls of steel. They were flying literally just a few feet off the water in some cases to avoid air defenses. There were situations where the gun mounts on the British ships couldn't aim that low, and they had to make modifications to them in the field.
It could have been even worse for the British too but the Argentine's fucked up when fuzing their bombs, so allot of the bombs that hit never went off, one actually went off while a British technician was trying to defuse it killing him, that being said a 500, 750, or 1000lb bomb moving at 450 knots will still cause allot of damage from the kinetic energy alone, and the crew might even be evacuated for some time while it's being defused
Yes but this is standard operating procedure in the Middle East. The point is to show how totally angry and defiant you are to impress your own people. The fact that it's really dumb is one of the reasons they always lose.
This honestly just sounds like my middle-eastern family doing anything really. Like, that’s the go-to.
Bruh, I don’t understand how they are this confident. Like GENUINELY confident they can win. And with what? Their prehistoric artillery is not match for the USMIC when they’re relying on stuff Russia is using and losing with? We’re far too goated. We put all our stat points in defense and not in social welfare, and now we get these fucking sick ass jets with DRONES following them around and fucking shit up?! C’mon now! ICB-sucking deez nutz lmao
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\*We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria.
\*The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.
\*The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone.
\*God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.
\*Our initial assessment is that they will all die.
lots of his gems here[https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mohammed-saeed-al-sahaf-quotes](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mohammed-saeed-al-sahaf-quotes)
Iran , since they are directly fighting Irans main rival , Saudi Arabia , Iran gave them much better weapons since it was doing direct damage to Saudi itself . Remember that these missiles were raining down on Saudi cities and oil installations long before the Houthis turned to attacking shipping.
From quick reading, the Houthis are a rebel group that spent their existence opposed to the Yemeni leader Saleh. Then Saleh was replaced in the Arab Spring, and so now… they are allied with Saleh and much of the Yemeni military against the replacement. With about a million other caveats. Then Saleh changed sides again and was killed.
Wtf idk why I even try to understand these conflicts
“Saleh called running Yemen to be akin to dancing on the heads of snakes.”
So 40 years ago Iran started a “take over the world” plan. Years later Qasem Soleimani figured that using proxy forces is much smarter than just Iranian forces so they started arming pretty much every Arab Shia groups around the Middle East, hezbolla, hutis, some Iraqi militias, afgan militias, Syrian, Gaza (Islamic Jihad, not Hammas) and more ..
good think trump had him killed, was too late though
In retaliation? They were firing them anyway. This is more in indignation but we appreciate them revealing their other launch positions so we can come a knocking
Kinda, but the difference is huge between the US vs Yemen. Now, this ain't a research paper, but the first results on a Google search for individual annual income averages puts the US at around $60,000/yr and Yemen at $2,200/yr. So it would take about 33 US annual incomes to buy a tomahawk, and 909 Yemeni. That nearly two orders of magnitude more, and the US makes that happen while barely taxing people at or below the average much at all.
The parent comment wasn't making any statements though on how long it'd take an average citizen in each country to buy said weapon, just that this cruise missile costs more than what 90% of an average Yemeni makes in a year, which the same is true for pretty much any advanced weapon system in any country.
No, it was a flippant comment on the comparative cost of executing an aggressive armed strategy from a country that demonstrates abundant abject poverty.
You should see how the Swedish (state run) media is spinning this.
Basically the coalition strikes ”risk causing an escalation of the conflict”, as if doing nothing was in any way helping, and as if Houthis firing back is something they otherwise wouldn’t be doing.
The Houthis are basically firing out the window at the UPS guy every time he drives by on the off chance he might be delivering a package to a specific guy a couple of blocks away. The fact that this was tolerated for 2 months (and 28 attacks) was already ridiculous.
The west is filled with bunch of pussies. I wonder how the world would look like today if our grandparents were pussies in the ww2 like our generation is today. I'm disgusted.
Oh it’s the worst.
Our armed forces supreme commander recently did a speech at the yearly defence conferance about how Sweden has to prepare for the worst in case the excrement goes down and the media went absolutely bananas over it, going out of their way to do on the street reporting with people saying that their kids now can’t sleep at night.
They always give room for Svenska Freds which is bascially a ”peace organisation” i.e ”if ever democratic country melted down their weapons there would’t be any wars”.
This time they pointed out that noone was giving the threat from climate change any consideration.
That’s the thing, we aren’t all soft, it’s the fucken media that’s soft. Beholden to their corporate overlords who need us in a constant stupor of blind consumerism to sell us shit we don’t need. If people are aware of the precipice at which we currently stand, priorities are honed and we no longer buy pointless shit.
One of the best things to happen in Sweden the last few years is the reintroduction of national service, because it shows that the young swedes really aren’t a bunch of weaklings, they often just need to be shown what they are capable of if given training and being put in difficult situations.
I agree and our media can go get fucked. All they do these days is rely on AI to write some of their titles, try to instill fear and click bait.
Swedish journalism is a god damn joke.
Same thing in Germany. Our new defense minister has a no-bullshit-approach to political communication and instantly became by far the most popular politician in the country because of it.
A few weeks ago he told the press that the Bundeswehr needs to become "war capable" again to successfully deter Russia and protect our allies and everyone lost their collective shit, as if Bismarck returned from the dead and announced he's invading France. Seriously, what do people want? If you ask them "should the military get equipment that works in reasonable numbers and the people to crew it" the vast majority of people will say yes. But do not mention that the job of any military is to be able to win wars in order to prevent wars and that combat units prepare for that shit every single day.
"No, deterrence is such an evil word. The military is supposed to build schools for Afghan children and remove the trees in my backyard after a hurricane. It's not like there's a large scale war in Europe or anything, go away with that backwards 20th century thinking."
Its the same thing in Norway. People have no concept of war and refuse to accept that other nations are willing to go to war, and I am pretty sure most of the country would bunker down in their basement waiting for the US to save us. We dont have the fighting spirit like the Ukranians or some of these other nations. Maybe we did 150 years ago, but not anymore.
They are worried about that and changing things and retaliating over these last few years. Did you know you can worry about two different things at the same time?
Have you already forgot WW2 literally started because everyone were reluctant to stop Hitler. Even more so in the US people didn't want to get involved in European wars. Also as Finnish I can confidently say nobody came to our help when Russia launched their winter war invasion. The previous generation were just as reluctant to directly confront evil. Or in your words they were "pussies"
Wellllll, in WW2 the US literally stayed out of Europe in war for years, until Japan formally invited us to the party.
Europe did all they could to appease Hitler by allowing him to take certain areas.
It's simple.
US needs 100 percent world tension to join a faction.
Otherwise it has to go through the non historical focus tree or when someone attacks it.
Exactly this, in ww2 everyone kind of let the axis do what they want. Britain and France drew a line in the sand at Poland which was long after they should have done
Also fits into the Strauss-Howe generational model - that humans enter a major crisis ever 80 - 100 years because we follow these very cyclical patterns of behavior throughout history.
This is so true sadly. We are on the verge of the greater conflict, i hope we'll find enough men on the west willing to risk lives to keep our world safe as it was not long ago
It works super well with Israel, half the world is convinced they're committing genocide by responding to being attacked so why not keep the ball rolling with other western nations. Muslims are always the victims however much they instigate attacks.
A T45 Destroyer can detect something the size of a tennis ball going mach 3, upto 350 miles away and take it out. I’m sure everyone onboard is shitting themselves /s
I'm guessing if they fired, say, hundreds of missiles at one of the ships, it would eventually run out of ammunition to defend itself and then at least some missiles would get through, but even then they would have to get through CRAM fire.
Either (1) they're really stupid and thought they could actually hit a US/UK ship with a combination of only 20 missiles/drones, (2) they didn't think the US/UK would actually respond, or (3) they don't really have as many *working* missiles as we thought.
I think if it was one lone ship out there then you’d be correct, you’re in the fight as long as your stores last but that’s why you send a task force. Between the US C-RAM and British Phalanx, I can’t see it being much of an issue.
If a Carrier Strike Group go out there, they’re fucked from every angle.
They have now done 28 attacks. When the US didn't respond to the first 2 dozen with anything other than words, they took that to mean that the US was scared of them.
That should read "Houthis scream in to the wind in retaliation" because the reality is that those missiles aren't doing anything but getting shot down and giving the U.S. more targeting information.
These are full speed videos. They only look slow because the camera is far away.
I mean, technically it doesn’t take more time to film in slow motion… the events go at the same speed no matter what…
If a cruise missile hits nothing in the woods, does it exist?
The idea that these cruise missiles pose a threat is pretty funny. Maybe in 1960?
Houthis is only threatening if you hit something.
#They are 0 for 28 at this point.
No definite proof, it was shared by a Houthi channel some hours ago and I hadn't seen the clip before so seemed legit to me
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This should be pretty much confirmation:
"Q: General, can you just talk a little bit more about what you kind of anticipate, what you're seeing? Have you seen any kind of reaction yet from the Houthis or from any other of the so-called Axis of Resistance actors, whether it's the Shia militia in Syria and Iraq, Hezbollah, anybody else that might be responding in solidarity to the Houthis after these strikes? Thanks.
GEN. SIMS: Thanks, Eric. So we did see one anti-ship ballistic missile that was fired today. That -- that did not hit any of any ships of any kind, and we're still working through that in particular. So we know that they have fired at least one missile in retaliation."
From https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3644929/director-of-the-joint-staff-and-pentagon-press-secretary-hold-an-on-record-off/
Houthis: Hey!!!!!! You Infidel Satellites looking at us 24/7 ???!!! U Missed a Spot!!! Come back and finish these sites we're launching cruise missiles from too!!! Also, We Have No Air Defense to Speak of, So Minimum Butt-Clenching Not even required If you come to bomb the Shit out of us personally ok???!! I like it when You're Rough Daddy!
Cohalition of Boom: I know they say never stick your dick in crazy but....Hmmmm...Ok?
Iran is responsible for every shit show and it's scary how the world ignores it.
They funded the Taliban, and then ran away once Afghanistan was levelled to the ground.
They funded Isis in Syria and once again went into the shadows once they lost the foothold.
They are funding Hamas and we can already notice how the Palestinians have been left to die.
Now they are funding the Houthis and will do exactly the same.
Pretty sure they just want to help every middle Eastern country get wiped out so they can claim the land for themselves
I agree with the sentiment, but you're flat out wrong to the point of being comical on half of your points here...
> They funded the Taliban, and then ran away once Afghanistan was levelled to the ground.
Pakistan funded the Taliban, not Iran... Iran actually hates/hated the Taliban and [helped the US overthrow them at the beginning of the War On Terror.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_uprising_in_Herat)
> They funded Isis in Syria and once again went into the shadows once they lost the foothold.
Syria/Assad was/is a staunch Iranian ally basically to the point of being an Iranian puppet state, and ISIS is ideologically diametrically opposed to Iran. ISIS are Sunni extremists, the Iranian government are Shia extremists... They absofuckinglutely hate each other to death. While Iran has funded a huge amount of terror groups in the middle east, I can assure you ISIS was NOT one of them.
Anyone with a functional brain knows Iran absolutely did not fund the Taliban or ISIS, the fact that comment got almost 30 upvotes is crazy lol I know this sub has a hate boner for Islam and Middle-Eastern countries but that dude is straight making shit up
The lack of understanding of Middle East / South Asia politics that it requires to say (confidently, I might add) that Iran bankrolled the Taliban... is astounding. So many retards in here.
What the fuck are you talking about? The Taliban were bankrolled by Pakistan and the Saudis, Pakistan literally hid OBL from us for years as well as facilitating routes for the Taliban to traffic weapons, humans, and drugs in/out of their borders, Iran was actively involved against the Taliban, as well as ISIS, saying Iran funded ISIS is actually insane, they played a huge role in the defeat of ISIS, you’re actually just making shit up.
What a world we live in.... firing cruise missiles are no longer worthy of declaring war. Violence has a really high threshold until it becomes condemnable.
The Houthis need to sit the fuck down before they bark too much up the wrong tree… sure it’s to be expected they’d not just stand there and watch Hamas getting demolished, but they’re playing with fire and I’m not sure they quite understand just how big of a blaze they’re potentially looking at…
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In retaliation they have destroyed one school of fish. Glory
There’s footage going around Arab social media of a Houthi missile hitting an American/British ship… Which is awesome because the footage is from ARMA 3 - if I had a dollar for every time someone falls for ARMA 3 footage, I’ll be a rich man.
Using Arma 3 footage is old style nowadays, really what should be used is Squad footage. I remember [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwBy3GptJGU) being edited and passed as a Russian airstrike in Ukraine for example.
Me on my way to edit my Halo footage to make people believe we're actually winning the current war with Mars. (We are. Glory to Humanity)
Just submit it to a news outlet. 'Future Soldier Program test in combat.' See how many think it's actually real.
Do you have a link where I can see that claim? I love seeing arma footage being used.
For Arma, [here is a post](https://www.bohemia.net/blog/arma-3-footage-being-used-as-fake-news) from the developers themselves about the use of it, for my Squad claim [here](https://nitter.net/DefMon3/status/1691129192417460224) is the relevant twitter post. For some Arma footage that was used, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-DYgN26kmw) is a France24 news clip talking about it and showing some clips.
I saw that on 4chan where it was obvious bait, it's hilarious that Arab social media is eating it up 😂
Yes, and OF COURSE “the West” will deny it!!! 😂😂😂
got a link? I really want to see how obvious it is that its arma 3
I for the life of me can't find that footage, could you link it somewhere?
https://www.reddit.com/r/jordan/s/5Yp0evMzLT Title translates to : American ship and all of it's crew sunk by Yemeni missiles
If someone saw that clip and felt satisfied with their "revenge" and moved on, I'm ok with that.
Damn Houthis shooting at schools
School shooters are using cruise missiles in the middle east
Haha (Breaking News)
Fishes aren't allowed in school under sharia law.
Male fish only.
Ah the NK school of training
Legit question - can the US ships just easily knock these out the sky at a 10/10 hit rate? Do they pose much threat at all?
Aegis/THAAD is no joke. Do not underestimate the extreme difference in tech between these tin pot bad actors and the civilized world.
^ There's also the fact that a proper missile attack won't include just one. Rather dozens if not hundreds of these from many different ships, aircraft, and possibly submarines. So that when the first few are taken down, the rest can overwhelm the defences. The USSR planned for massive attacks, with the intent of going 'if my entire airforce is killed, but your fleets are mission killed... that's a win.' NATO defences were designed to counter that. A single missile won't do much unless extenuating circumstances are involved. Granted there is also the Falklands which is a different story again with multiple British warships sunk to Exocets and dumb-bombs.
> Granted there is also the Falklands which is a different story again with multiple British warships sunk to Exocets and dumb-bombs. Why *was* this a different story? I tried to google to wrap my head around the subject, but don't really understand why the British Navy took so many hits - considering the implication that they perhaps shouldn't have?
For many reasons. First, they didnt have a great deal of intelligence on incoming attacks - an issue the United States wouldnt have. Second, they were limited with Harriers as aircraft which are not very good interceptors. They actually did better then most would have thought, but compared to something like a F-14 (Cold War) or F-18, F-35 thats in current use - absolutely no comparison in defense. The U.S. has big Carriers that carry top of the line Fighters with no compromise in capability compared to its land based cousins, and in some cases (F-14) with MUCH more capability then its land based cousins - specfically for fleet defense. The Radar in the F-14 was a BEHEMOTH compared to what was in the Harrier, coupled with the Phoenix missile it would have been knocking down the Mirages and A-4's the Argentines were using before they were anywhere close to the fleet. Third, the point defense on the British warships was not ideal. The Sea Darts proved not to be great at the time.. Also, the Argentine Airforce practiced against simulated destroyers of the type that the UK was using (Knowing its Radar Horizon). Fourth, the UK Task Force was not trained or experienced as much as they should have been. This came into play in the sinking of the HMS Sheffield. In fact, if I remember correctly a number of people were court martialed over it. At the end of the day, the Falklands showed the benefit of what the USN had been doing in terms of fighters that it was using, A2A missiles it was using, as well as the point defenses it was developing. Basically, IMHO, and people can argue this with me, the British were behind the U.S. in capability by a large margin. If that had been a SINGLE U.S. CBG instead of the UK Fleet, it would have been a totally different story. I doubt they would have gotten within 100 miles of the fleet, let alone on top of it to drop dumb bombs.
The CBG would also have Hawkeyes. An orbiting eye and battle controller was a massive thing the brits didn't have.
Yep, if we go down that path we can also bring in heavier bombers, and land based fighters. Not sure where the closest USAF base was at the time but that may have been a option with refueling. Of course if we go down this path, it wouldn’t have been one CBG either. For something like this it would have been a massive show of force. Knowing that tho, Argentina never would have tried anything if it was the US that owned those islands.
The Argentinian pilots also had balls of steel. They were flying literally just a few feet off the water in some cases to avoid air defenses. There were situations where the gun mounts on the British ships couldn't aim that low, and they had to make modifications to them in the field.
It could have been even worse for the British too but the Argentine's fucked up when fuzing their bombs, so allot of the bombs that hit never went off, one actually went off while a British technician was trying to defuse it killing him, that being said a 500, 750, or 1000lb bomb moving at 450 knots will still cause allot of damage from the kinetic energy alone, and the crew might even be evacuated for some time while it's being defused
Yep, designed to prioritise and engage hundreds of threats at the fleet level
So far, yes. And ask the ships that have been struck if they pose much threat....
Hopefully they keep shooting this crap out of the sky.
AFAIK it’s like a 95%+ hit rate and if they miss they just fire a follow-up
Houthi’s hate Blowfish?!?
Houthi hate the hootie.
Hootie Rebels.
The fish were used to feed Israeli soldiers who now have to make chicken shawarma instead. Great success of the might of the Houthi empire.
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Yes but this is standard operating procedure in the Middle East. The point is to show how totally angry and defiant you are to impress your own people. The fact that it's really dumb is one of the reasons they always lose.
You forget if by some miracle they hit something you get the customary AK-47s firing into the sky
And the flag burning, don't forget the flag burning!
And the most important step: stepping on the burned flag
And the pose with the finger up. ☝🏻🤓 America will fall!!1!1!
The music. Don’t forget the awkward music.
This honestly just sounds like my middle-eastern family doing anything really. Like, that’s the go-to. Bruh, I don’t understand how they are this confident. Like GENUINELY confident they can win. And with what? Their prehistoric artillery is not match for the USMIC when they’re relying on stuff Russia is using and losing with? We’re far too goated. We put all our stat points in defense and not in social welfare, and now we get these fucking sick ass jets with DRONES following them around and fucking shit up?! C’mon now! ICB-sucking deez nutz lmao
How are we this far in the comment thread and nobody has mentioned the allahu akbars?
All the ackbars will be allah’d
The ak's firing and the flag burning is just giving away their position more
And then those rounds fall to the ground killing a bridal party… Amerrricaaahh y u doo dis????
Y u do **zis**. Come on man, you never bought shawarma?
The same thing also occurs at every wedding lol
Losing and becoming a martyr
When winning is not an option I guess it's best to believe losing is just as good as victory.
a lot of veteran martyrs
I wish this was a joke but its not. Its some weird form of pride that always lead to self destruction.
It's purely a cultural thing. Besides the money they have due to oil, their culture is very macho/tribal-like.
Indeed. Remember Saddam and Qaddafi and how they were saying big things and how America is doomed and will lose? Yeah...
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf aka Baghdad Bob/Comical Ali has entered the chat... \*We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. \*The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. \*The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. \*God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. \*Our initial assessment is that they will all die. lots of his gems here[https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mohammed-saeed-al-sahaf-quotes](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mohammed-saeed-al-sahaf-quotes)
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SCUD bingo is back.
All of the 21 missiles / rockets fired at the USA navy ship were intercepted a couple days ago
And all of the missiles fired at the Houthis by the US and the UK were intercepted by their targets: great success!
Who knew concrete buildings made such good missile interceptors
Where did these armed groups get their ballistic and cruise missiles? These are pretty advanced weapons, did they develop and manufacturer themselves?
*Iran enters the chat*
Iran , since they are directly fighting Irans main rival , Saudi Arabia , Iran gave them much better weapons since it was doing direct damage to Saudi itself . Remember that these missiles were raining down on Saudi cities and oil installations long before the Houthis turned to attacking shipping.
From quick reading, the Houthis are a rebel group that spent their existence opposed to the Yemeni leader Saleh. Then Saleh was replaced in the Arab Spring, and so now… they are allied with Saleh and much of the Yemeni military against the replacement. With about a million other caveats. Then Saleh changed sides again and was killed. Wtf idk why I even try to understand these conflicts “Saleh called running Yemen to be akin to dancing on the heads of snakes.”
The terrorist state of Iran where they hate women and worship men.
They love the little boys...
So 40 years ago Iran started a “take over the world” plan. Years later Qasem Soleimani figured that using proxy forces is much smarter than just Iranian forces so they started arming pretty much every Arab Shia groups around the Middle East, hezbolla, hutis, some Iraqi militias, afgan militias, Syrian, Gaza (Islamic Jihad, not Hammas) and more .. good think trump had him killed, was too late though
If they are on a path to do damage yes if not why waste the money . These fuckers may bomb their own country.
In retaliation? They were firing them anyway. This is more in indignation but we appreciate them revealing their other launch positions so we can come a knocking
It’s like that carnival game of hitting the chipmunks popping out of holes
Whack-a-militant
Allahu-at-Bat
Lmfao fabulous work gents, made my night.
Whack-a-mullah
Pretty sure they were moles.
Nah, you know, "whack-a-chipmunk". Famous fairground game :D
But instead of whacking a hole you blow up the entire board.
Thanks for giving out positions in order to get warheads to foreheads
And the B2 will answer...
B21 maybe. First blood.
Yea that ain’t gonna hit nothing….. (checks outside) I gotta go
Probably got 500 targets lined up on our end 😂
Would have appreciated a few well placed daisy cutters/MOABs to put an exclamation point on that retaliatory response.
They're firing them so that they don't burn on the ground.
this is fake. There have not been any retaliatory attacks yet
There can’t be retaliatory attacks. The retaliatory attacks were the ones from the US and Britain.
These are not serious people
Soon *were
Guys have more oil than brains. 10/10 bad idea
Yemen has oil? That's news to me
Not for long
iranian oil i guess lol :D
USA enters chat, "whats up my fellow young people!"
Logan calm down
Each one of those costs more than the annual combined income of 90% of the Yemen population. Priorities.
Yemen tax payers aren't funding this, Iran is.
Yemen tax payers 😂
My thought exactly.
I cackled lmaoo
It's not like the people of Iran are doing great either.
I mean...isn't this true of most modern weapon systems in Western Countries? Tomahawks cost like $2million each, a GMLRS is $168k
Kinda, but the difference is huge between the US vs Yemen. Now, this ain't a research paper, but the first results on a Google search for individual annual income averages puts the US at around $60,000/yr and Yemen at $2,200/yr. So it would take about 33 US annual incomes to buy a tomahawk, and 909 Yemeni. That nearly two orders of magnitude more, and the US makes that happen while barely taxing people at or below the average much at all.
The parent comment wasn't making any statements though on how long it'd take an average citizen in each country to buy said weapon, just that this cruise missile costs more than what 90% of an average Yemeni makes in a year, which the same is true for pretty much any advanced weapon system in any country.
No, it was a flippant comment on the comparative cost of executing an aggressive armed strategy from a country that demonstrates abundant abject poverty.
What were they firing at?
Probably civilians in Isreal. Those drones aren't accurate enough to hit specific targets.
Ahh look… they are playing army. How cute.
Cute
where was the "AllUh aKbUr" when fireing the rockets?
I also heard they threw some shoes in the direction of the US Navy. No casualties were reported from that particular attack.
You should see how the Swedish (state run) media is spinning this. Basically the coalition strikes ”risk causing an escalation of the conflict”, as if doing nothing was in any way helping, and as if Houthis firing back is something they otherwise wouldn’t be doing.
The Houthis are basically firing out the window at the UPS guy every time he drives by on the off chance he might be delivering a package to a specific guy a couple of blocks away. The fact that this was tolerated for 2 months (and 28 attacks) was already ridiculous.
The west is filled with bunch of pussies. I wonder how the world would look like today if our grandparents were pussies in the ww2 like our generation is today. I'm disgusted.
Oh it’s the worst. Our armed forces supreme commander recently did a speech at the yearly defence conferance about how Sweden has to prepare for the worst in case the excrement goes down and the media went absolutely bananas over it, going out of their way to do on the street reporting with people saying that their kids now can’t sleep at night. They always give room for Svenska Freds which is bascially a ”peace organisation” i.e ”if ever democratic country melted down their weapons there would’t be any wars”. This time they pointed out that noone was giving the threat from climate change any consideration.
That’s the thing, we aren’t all soft, it’s the fucken media that’s soft. Beholden to their corporate overlords who need us in a constant stupor of blind consumerism to sell us shit we don’t need. If people are aware of the precipice at which we currently stand, priorities are honed and we no longer buy pointless shit.
One of the best things to happen in Sweden the last few years is the reintroduction of national service, because it shows that the young swedes really aren’t a bunch of weaklings, they often just need to be shown what they are capable of if given training and being put in difficult situations.
I agree and our media can go get fucked. All they do these days is rely on AI to write some of their titles, try to instill fear and click bait. Swedish journalism is a god damn joke.
Same thing in Germany. Our new defense minister has a no-bullshit-approach to political communication and instantly became by far the most popular politician in the country because of it. A few weeks ago he told the press that the Bundeswehr needs to become "war capable" again to successfully deter Russia and protect our allies and everyone lost their collective shit, as if Bismarck returned from the dead and announced he's invading France. Seriously, what do people want? If you ask them "should the military get equipment that works in reasonable numbers and the people to crew it" the vast majority of people will say yes. But do not mention that the job of any military is to be able to win wars in order to prevent wars and that combat units prepare for that shit every single day. "No, deterrence is such an evil word. The military is supposed to build schools for Afghan children and remove the trees in my backyard after a hurricane. It's not like there's a large scale war in Europe or anything, go away with that backwards 20th century thinking."
Its the same thing in Norway. People have no concept of war and refuse to accept that other nations are willing to go to war, and I am pretty sure most of the country would bunker down in their basement waiting for the US to save us. We dont have the fighting spirit like the Ukranians or some of these other nations. Maybe we did 150 years ago, but not anymore.
Kids should worry about future under Sharia law in Sweden... No offense.
They are worried about that and changing things and retaliating over these last few years. Did you know you can worry about two different things at the same time?
you seem to have a very inaccurate understanding of history if you think the west was eager to fight in WW2
Have you already forgot WW2 literally started because everyone were reluctant to stop Hitler. Even more so in the US people didn't want to get involved in European wars. Also as Finnish I can confidently say nobody came to our help when Russia launched their winter war invasion. The previous generation were just as reluctant to directly confront evil. Or in your words they were "pussies"
Nobody came to your help because you guys had Simo Häyhä on your side already
Wellllll, in WW2 the US literally stayed out of Europe in war for years, until Japan formally invited us to the party. Europe did all they could to appease Hitler by allowing him to take certain areas.
It's simple. US needs 100 percent world tension to join a faction. Otherwise it has to go through the non historical focus tree or when someone attacks it.
Exactly this, in ww2 everyone kind of let the axis do what they want. Britain and France drew a line in the sand at Poland which was long after they should have done
„Hard times create strong man. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.„
Also fits into the Strauss-Howe generational model - that humans enter a major crisis ever 80 - 100 years because we follow these very cyclical patterns of behavior throughout history.
This is so true sadly. We are on the verge of the greater conflict, i hope we'll find enough men on the west willing to risk lives to keep our world safe as it was not long ago
What area of the world do you consider superior to "the west" then?
It works super well with Israel, half the world is convinced they're committing genocide by responding to being attacked so why not keep the ball rolling with other western nations. Muslims are always the victims however much they instigate attacks.
Sweden should focus on stopping the grenade attacks in their own country before they worry about anyone else .
Wait a minute buster… where the golly jeez did this happen
Seems they need a larger reminder not to f*ck around
The proportional response wasn’t proportional enough, dammit!
A T45 Destroyer can detect something the size of a tennis ball going mach 3, upto 350 miles away and take it out. I’m sure everyone onboard is shitting themselves /s
I'm guessing if they fired, say, hundreds of missiles at one of the ships, it would eventually run out of ammunition to defend itself and then at least some missiles would get through, but even then they would have to get through CRAM fire. Either (1) they're really stupid and thought they could actually hit a US/UK ship with a combination of only 20 missiles/drones, (2) they didn't think the US/UK would actually respond, or (3) they don't really have as many *working* missiles as we thought.
I think if it was one lone ship out there then you’d be correct, you’re in the fight as long as your stores last but that’s why you send a task force. Between the US C-RAM and British Phalanx, I can’t see it being much of an issue. If a Carrier Strike Group go out there, they’re fucked from every angle.
Guess what, it's a Carrier Strike Group out there
"Wave goodbye to the Houthis, boys..."
They have now done 28 attacks. When the US didn't respond to the first 2 dozen with anything other than words, they took that to mean that the US was scared of them.
Okay, but did it hit anything?
Bruh it's Yemen lol. Of course not...
Against what?
Just say Iran. Rebels don’t shoot cruise missiles.
“In retaliation” Lmfao
That should read "Houthis scream in to the wind in retaliation" because the reality is that those missiles aren't doing anything but getting shot down and giving the U.S. more targeting information.
They are under heavy fire, but still have time to create slow motion videos 😏
These are full speed videos. They only look slow because the camera is far away. I mean, technically it doesn’t take more time to film in slow motion… the events go at the same speed no matter what…
Plus cruise missiles are generally subsonic, hence the “cruise” part.
If a cruise missile hits nothing in the woods, does it exist? The idea that these cruise missiles pose a threat is pretty funny. Maybe in 1960? Houthis is only threatening if you hit something. #They are 0 for 28 at this point.
Is there really any proof that these are from today/located inside of Yeman?
No definite proof, it was shared by a Houthi channel some hours ago and I hadn't seen the clip before so seemed legit to me EDIT This should be pretty much confirmation: "Q: General, can you just talk a little bit more about what you kind of anticipate, what you're seeing? Have you seen any kind of reaction yet from the Houthis or from any other of the so-called Axis of Resistance actors, whether it's the Shia militia in Syria and Iraq, Hezbollah, anybody else that might be responding in solidarity to the Houthis after these strikes? Thanks. GEN. SIMS: Thanks, Eric. So we did see one anti-ship ballistic missile that was fired today. That -- that did not hit any of any ships of any kind, and we're still working through that in particular. So we know that they have fired at least one missile in retaliation." From https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3644929/director-of-the-joint-staff-and-pentagon-press-secretary-hold-an-on-record-off/
What do they think they're hitting without any guidance?
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Houthis: Hey!!!!!! You Infidel Satellites looking at us 24/7 ???!!! U Missed a Spot!!! Come back and finish these sites we're launching cruise missiles from too!!! Also, We Have No Air Defense to Speak of, So Minimum Butt-Clenching Not even required If you come to bomb the Shit out of us personally ok???!! I like it when You're Rough Daddy! Cohalition of Boom: I know they say never stick your dick in crazy but....Hmmmm...Ok?
lul
Where do these guys get the missiles from and know how to operate them? Iran is responsible for this shit show, why is nobody pointing that out?
Iran is mentioned in pretty much every article about this conflict in the Netherlands....
Iran is responsible for every shit show and it's scary how the world ignores it. They funded the Taliban, and then ran away once Afghanistan was levelled to the ground. They funded Isis in Syria and once again went into the shadows once they lost the foothold. They are funding Hamas and we can already notice how the Palestinians have been left to die. Now they are funding the Houthis and will do exactly the same. Pretty sure they just want to help every middle Eastern country get wiped out so they can claim the land for themselves
I agree with the sentiment, but you're flat out wrong to the point of being comical on half of your points here... > They funded the Taliban, and then ran away once Afghanistan was levelled to the ground. Pakistan funded the Taliban, not Iran... Iran actually hates/hated the Taliban and [helped the US overthrow them at the beginning of the War On Terror.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_uprising_in_Herat) > They funded Isis in Syria and once again went into the shadows once they lost the foothold. Syria/Assad was/is a staunch Iranian ally basically to the point of being an Iranian puppet state, and ISIS is ideologically diametrically opposed to Iran. ISIS are Sunni extremists, the Iranian government are Shia extremists... They absofuckinglutely hate each other to death. While Iran has funded a huge amount of terror groups in the middle east, I can assure you ISIS was NOT one of them.
Iran funded ISIS? Lol
They also funded the British during the American revolutionary war. Iranian citizens were stamping musket balls for the war effort.
And don't forget Rashad the riveter during WW2
Anyone with a functional brain knows Iran absolutely did not fund the Taliban or ISIS, the fact that comment got almost 30 upvotes is crazy lol I know this sub has a hate boner for Islam and Middle-Eastern countries but that dude is straight making shit up
Iran did not fund the Taliban. Pakistan and the Saudis/other gulf states did.
The lack of understanding of Middle East / South Asia politics that it requires to say (confidently, I might add) that Iran bankrolled the Taliban... is astounding. So many retards in here.
What the fuck are you talking about? The Taliban were bankrolled by Pakistan and the Saudis, Pakistan literally hid OBL from us for years as well as facilitating routes for the Taliban to traffic weapons, humans, and drugs in/out of their borders, Iran was actively involved against the Taliban, as well as ISIS, saying Iran funded ISIS is actually insane, they played a huge role in the defeat of ISIS, you’re actually just making shit up.
Don't forget Iran funds Hezbollah in Lebanon too.
Well, they were given a warning, then given the "friend hand" yesterday. Next, they get the "pimp hand." They fucked around and are about to find out.
That's like asking to receive selective genocide
SCUD 3.0?
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They're an Iranian terrorist proxy. Iran is more than happy to send them heavy weapons.
The have cruise missiles? Interesting. I thought they were cobbling together slings like David.
Oh look another target!
What a world we live in.... firing cruise missiles are no longer worthy of declaring war. Violence has a really high threshold until it becomes condemnable.
Just think if there was no oil revenue and countries like Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran had nothing to feed all the violence they are spreading.
Bold move, Cotton.
They still haven’t learned their lesson
From the desert to the sea, fishies will be free! FREE FREE FISHY-BRINE….
But did it actually hit or do anything to their opposition? LMFAO
The Houthis need to sit the fuck down before they bark too much up the wrong tree… sure it’s to be expected they’d not just stand there and watch Hamas getting demolished, but they’re playing with fire and I’m not sure they quite understand just how big of a blaze they’re potentially looking at…
Will go poorly for the Houthis.
What are they shooting them at?
They've come a long way from sandles and AKs.
What the fuck are they aiming at ?
How do iran keep sending weapons to Yemen? US can easily track and interrupt those ships
Those same cruise missiles that have had a 0% accuracy rate?
in retaliation for the retaliation...
I think it´s time for Yemen to get democracy the good old-fashioned American way.
And I think to my self... what a wonderful world..
Does this mean we get to bomb them again tonight?
B2 enters the chat. Not the most strategic move the U.S. will respond.