Great from an environmental standpoint too as it would just be blasting sand rather than vegetation.
When they begin launching anti aircraft missiles, time to take the batteries out, forever.
The time to take out those batteries is when they are first spotted. It is an active war zone where "the rebels" (and their Iranian backers) are supporting international piracy. Waiting around to get shot at is a losing strategy.
Designating the area as a "free-fire-zone" and killing anything that looks remotely hostile is a winning strategy.
We should have actual Congressional declarations of war to authorize these actions. And properly fund them. What a quaint notion.