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Houthi Red Sea strikes kill first sailors, as ballistic missile threat proliferates (Houthi threats against the Straight of Hormuz)
Breaking Defense ^ | 3/6/24 | Rise Kahwaji

Posted on 03/07/2024 2:19:10 PM PST by hardspunned

DUBAI — The ongoing strikes on ships in the Red Sea by Iranian-backed Houthi militias took their first lives on Thursday, with two sailors aboard the commercial vessel MV True Confidence killed by incoming fire. It’s a tragic, but almost inevitable, step in the Houthi campaign of launching missiles against commercial ships, as the Yemeni group attempts to disrupt trade and commerce in the region.

But the worst could still be coming, experts say, thanks to the impressive technological leaps the Houthis have shown in the realm of ballistic missiles.

The Houthis already made history in becoming the first group to successfully strike a naval vessel with a ballistic missile, and experts tell Breaking Defense the weapons have shown enough range to reach US bases in the region and threaten strategic choke points in the Middle East. Making matters worse: analysts warn it is likely that America’s premiere challengers, China and Russia, are studying how the weapons have succeeded and what danger they pose to US air defenses, in an effort to find a chink in Western armor.

(Excerpt) Read more at breakingdefense.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: acountrywithoutanavy; battleoftheredsea; countrywithoutanavy; nukethehooothees; thebattleoftheredsea
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“This range and accuracy of ballistic missiles operated by the Houthis and other Iranian proxies technically place all three strategic choke points in the Middle East — Bab Al-Mandab Strait, Hormuz Strait and the Suez Canal — within reach. Along with the other Iranian proxies, all US bases in the region are practically already within range.”

“The Yemen-based Ansar Allah movement (known as the Houthis) is ruling out a full shutdown of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the group’s deputy spokesman Nasr al-Din Amer told Izvestia, refuting several earlier media reports. However, the Houthis are ready for a further escalation.“

If the Houthis go that route, who could prevent it?

1 posted on 03/07/2024 2:19:10 PM PST by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

So if NATO is so sacred snd indispensable, why aren’t all our partners raining down hellfire on these Houthis and erasing them from the face of the earth? I have no skills as a military commander but it seems to me 72 straight hours of “incoming” might change their plans considerably.

Or is all the necessary ordinance in Ukraine?


2 posted on 03/07/2024 2:24:18 PM PST by muir_redwoods (There will be a celebration in January 2025, either with champagne or with “hardware”)
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To: hardspunned

And Joe’s response was “Where is the closest ice cream shop and do they have chocolate chocolate chip?”


3 posted on 03/07/2024 2:26:56 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: hardspunned

It would take a full scale war to stop the Houthis and that’s probably not a good idea at this point as we are engaged elsewhere. Let the ships take an alternate route.


4 posted on 03/07/2024 2:28:27 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: hardspunned

The Houthis are doing the US Navy a HUGE favor.

At fairly low cost, they are demonstrating to the world, and the US Navy, the embarrassing obsolescence of our naval force and its weapons.

Trading million dollar missiles for $20K drones and $100k missiles is a losing equation, when our best ships only carry two dozen of the million dollar missiles, and then have to leave the theater for a friendly theater dockside reload.

This is a favor because it’s better to learn this now, rather than learning it like the Prince of Wales and Repulse discovered as Singapore fell.

The US Navy is MORE obsolete in 2024 than battleships were in 1940.

Please thank the Houthis. This is much cheaper than losing aircraft carriers in the first weeks of a Taiwan intervention, for example.


5 posted on 03/07/2024 2:28:53 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: muir_redwoods

see # 5.


6 posted on 03/07/2024 2:29:31 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: muir_redwoods

Good question. So far all we’ve done is some tit-for-tat. I suspect we don’t have any intel assets among the Houthi and don’t want to inadvertently start down the path of escalation by miscalculating what is going on. We have land bases there which the Houthi could hit if they want to, and which would put Biden in the soup once again. Fear of our own incompetence is restraining us.


7 posted on 03/07/2024 2:31:39 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: hardspunned

NATO globalists wanted a proxy-war

But instead, they got proxy-wars

Amazing that the big brains at Langley and Foggy Bottom didn’t expect that.


8 posted on 03/07/2024 2:34:36 PM PST by PGR88
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To: hardspunned

Better hope they don’t get their hands on some sea drone copycats. Iran probably has something like them.


9 posted on 03/07/2024 2:35:13 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

If they don’t have sea drones yet, you can bet they are rushing to make LOTS of them now. Don’t even have to be as good as originals if the can send enough at a target.


10 posted on 03/07/2024 2:42:37 PM PST by desertsolitaire
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To: hardspunned

delcare war on Iran and their allies.


11 posted on 03/07/2024 2:45:00 PM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: Travis McGee

Yes, our resident Ukie trolls are having a blast yukking it up about “The Battle of the Black Sea”, as if the lessons don’t apply elsewhere.


12 posted on 03/07/2024 2:47:08 PM PST by kiryandil
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To: hinckley buzzard

Saudis, via the US, have been bombing the Houthis for a decade.

I don’t think people here get it.


13 posted on 03/07/2024 2:47:57 PM PST by EEGator
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To: coalminersson

I’m glad you possess zero power.


14 posted on 03/07/2024 2:49:01 PM PST by EEGator
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To: hardspunned

An update:

Iran humiliating USA=bad

US escalation=bad.

WOW leftists heads I win, tails you lose free rolling hate America crap.

Who could prevent it? Toughie-who prevented Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt et al from jumping in?

Stock up on rubles yet?

They’re on sale-45% off since June 2022 and 75% off since Crimea 2014. A bargain buy.


15 posted on 03/07/2024 2:49:37 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: PGR88

Exactly!

Radical islam has not been warring via proxy vs the US for 50yrs.

Unlike Russia which only attacks off skyrocketing energy prices-

Iran attacks off the same and plenty of times in between.


16 posted on 03/07/2024 2:54:21 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: hardspunned

A, what seems to me, a well-informed video on the attack on True Confidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27zG3GNxmdI


17 posted on 03/07/2024 3:10:43 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: EEGator

I’m not glad you will wait for Iran too have nukes before you see how dangerous the world can become. How many of us and the Israelis do they have to kill directly or through their proxies before you would strike back. How many ICBMs that can reach europe and then the US? How many hostages taken for ransom?

Have you ever heard the term acts of war?


18 posted on 03/07/2024 3:12:44 PM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: hardspunned

Why is this permitted to continue? Why has the UK not leveled Yemen with a nuke? We cannot allow some fanatical whack jobs to murder innocent civilians or impede the lawful flow of commerce.

If Trunp was in office I expect the perps would already have been eliminated.


19 posted on 03/07/2024 3:15:18 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: Travis McGee

We are most definitely not getting a trillion dollars a year worth of value from the MIC. As usual, we are more than ready to fight the last war.


20 posted on 03/07/2024 3:16:16 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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