Posted on 12/30/2023 7:15:42 PM PST by rdl6989
Always there to insult America, aren’t you
This Regime is failing, and pretending that it isn’t doesn’t solve anything.
Almost none of the allies (including Canada) wants to have anything to do with this operation, because they know it is going to fail.
Likely the Houthi missiles were fired from vehicle mounted launchers that skedaddled as soon as they fired so they couldn't be targeted. You still have to deal with the missiles headed toward your ship. I think in that case firing a million dollar missile to save a multi-billion dollar ship is a good trade-off.
(from a container ship that was hit)
Must have pretty good guidance. Or good enough.
Yikes.
Because it isn’t the Yemeni government doing it, but the rebel Houthis.
But even if we were to limit it to just the Houthis... which is harder than it sounds... we have feckless idiots running the country. So no action will be taken.
Ummm.... that’s an actual class of weapon now. It was developed as a response to the US inventing Aegis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_ballistic_missile
They should do a convoy systen like WWIi if they are not doing it already.
Civilian toy drones are now good enough to optically identify a target and fly to it in some cases. Usually it’s used as a backup to an INS to get one ‘home’ but... the programming exists, the computer hardware is there... Doesn’t cost much to get one.
The Red Sea is *very* narrow but mostly shallow and there are points at which ships basically have to pass straits in single file. Another problem is that we killed a lot of missile defense programs that could have dealt with this *and* we took CIWS off our destroyers.
It may be difficult to stop the launches, but you know where they came from and it if was a few vehicles in the desert, they are easy to follow. You track them down and kill the crews.
The prospective launch areas are under constant real-time surveillance and there are a limited number of sites. If your observers are good, you have a chance of catching the launch crews as they setup and wait for victims.
With back-tracing, you may be able to spot the armories where the launch trucks are being loaded. Once you have reasonable certainty of where they are located, you hit them too.
Civilian causalities? That is just too bad. The coast is an active war zone.
You must be very careful about anti-aircraft systems that may be deployed in the area especially the Russian S-300 and S-400 systems. Once they show up, it is "game-over" for simple air offensive measures. You aren't going to be using airstrikes more than a few times before you must stop. Better make them fast and effective while you still can.
At some point you had better deploy a whole bunch of expendable attack drones, because manned aircraft won't be able to get through to targets. Neither will most of the drones, but it comes down to swarm numbers and clever evasion software. Some drones will always get through. That might be enough.
The American ships have a very limited supply of defensive missiles, and they cannot be reloaded while at sea. (Whoever though that was an acceptable design for a weapon system?) Once they run low, they must return to a safe port for reloading, or they become sitting ducks for attacks, just like the freighters they are supposed to be protecting.
The Houthi (Iranian) missiles are cheap and plentiful. They are meant to exhaust the supplies of American counter-missiles more than to actually destroy unarmed freighters. Behind the swarm of cheap missiles is a group of much more capable Chinese or Russian anti-ship missiles, or even Iranian anti-ship missiles of advanced design. The Iranians have some very capable engineers and can do quite a lot with just a little help from their friends. They would be thrilled to take an "accidental" shot at an American capital ship and sink it.
We are being setup for a sucker punch. We cannot just hang around in the area on patrols for an indefinite period of time. We are going to have to leave eventually.
Purely defensive tactics are a losing game. Then again, the shadow people who control the US government want us to lose. It is in their best interest for us to lose. We must deal with that before we deal with a lot of other things.
Yemen DOES have numerous sea port facilities, on the coast. I have no idea, what would happen, if a sea port was reduced to rubble.
The problem is that the sea ports aren’t necessarily controlled by the same government as is flipping missiles at ships.
Yes, but maybe the government may not appreciate the trouble the Houthis are getting them into.
The government doesn’t like us, but they’re not stupid enough to flip missiles at us. Unfortunately, they’ve been losing to the Houthis for a while now and there’s not a lot they can do about them.
“Instead of shooting down missiles, how about shooting where they are being launched? What am I missing?”
Supposedly the missiles are coming from mobile launchers. Pull up, set up, fire and gone in minutes. Still hard to believe our satellites aren’t parked over the launch areas and tracking were these mobile units are dispersed to and parked. Taking care of the root of the problem doesn’t make the Raytheons of the world happy. They want to keep supplying million dollar surface to air missiles to take down Russian / Iranian built $20k Drones.
The O'biden crime family run by the deep state has done more to destroy the US than the past administrations put together absent Trump and Reagan could have done all together.
The plan to destroy the US was and is well coordinated as we see today with 10-20,000 invaders coming across an open border daily to name only one objective.
Seeing the light always helps.....
Yeah the tech is here - even low tech like that will work against unarmed ships
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