Yemeni Conflict: News

Cucumber Khan wrote:
Please show some acutal photographic proof of all these "F-16s" shot down. How can you say that the wreckage shown is an F-16, from Israel?. More likely an F-15. And Yemen is hardly "well-equipped" with "modern Russian weaponry". The MiG-29s were clearly non-active and were likely not even operational. And Buks? Where? When? Yemen ordered Tors in 2007, but how many were delivered, and if they were even operational, is unclear.

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Manov wrote:Is it a mini nuke or a ammo depot or something like that was destroyed?. Im in shock from the video (specially the one of the woman crying). Mini Nuke or Thermobaric, its a crime against the humanity to do this on a heavy populated area.

George1 wrote:Saudi Arabia's air defense forces shot down a ballistic missile 9K72 (Scud-B), launched from Yemen

max steel wrote:

George1 wrote:Saudi Arabia's air defense forces shot down a ballistic missile 9K72 (Scud-B), launched from Yemen

So finally PAC-3 american latest patriot was able to shoot down Scuds

max steel wrote:Isn't it funny that they were able to determine the missile houthi fired was a Scud-B but they can't tell which defense system was used by sauds to shoot it down . LUCKILY HOUTHIS FIRED SINGLE MISSILE .

PAC-3 costs 7.8 bilion $ .

Saudis use Patriot Advanced capability air defense system only . In 2014 octobber , Raytheon received a $1.7 billion contract to upgrade Saudi Arabia’s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to the latest Configuration-3. The award includes ground-system hardware, a full training package and support equipment upgrades. http://rt.com/news/192400-saudi-arabia-us-arms/



By the way do americans use PAC-3 in their OWN  defense systems or PAAC-4 ? or was it for israelis ?

sepheronx wrote:

max steel wrote:

George1 wrote:Saudi Arabia's air defense forces shot down a ballistic missile 9K72 (Scud-B), launched from Yemen

So finally PAC-3 american latest patriot was able to shoot down Scuds

Not surprising.  First time they tried they were able to shoot 1 of the 5 that Saddam launched down.  But this is a single missile that Houthis launched.  If they launched multiple, then chances are, 1 would get through while others would be shot down.  What it doesn't say is what system was used, how they were shot down and with how many missiles it took to take it down.  Such info will not ever be shared of course.

Much like how Tochka U was supposedly shot down by Pantsir in Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine.

Now the question is, which costs more?  Scuds are cheap apparently, while PAC-3 are not.  But I am very curious to see what the situation is and what the results are if they are ever released.

Werewolf wrote:

sepheronx wrote:

max steel wrote:

George1 wrote:Saudi Arabia's air defense forces shot down a ballistic missile 9K72 (Scud-B), launched from Yemen

So finally PAC-3 american latest patriot was able to shoot down Scuds

Not surprising.  First time they tried they were able to shoot 1 of the 5 that Saddam launched down.  But this is a single missile that Houthis launched.  If they launched multiple, then chances are, 1 would get through while others would be shot down.  What it doesn't say is what system was used, how they were shot down and with how many missiles it took to take it down.  Such info will not ever be shared of course.

Much like how Tochka U was supposedly shot down by Pantsir in Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine.

Now the question is, which costs more?  Scuds are cheap apparently, while PAC-3 are not.  But I am very curious to see what the situation is and what the results are if they are ever released.

Not true, the first time was 1 out of 10 scuds, the actual percentage was around 7-8% interception rate against Scuds in Iraq, despite the constant and massive propaganda of Patriot success of being capable to intercept 94% or whatever high number they have propagated.

sepheronx wrote:

Werewolf wrote:

sepheronx wrote:

max steel wrote:

George1 wrote:Saudi Arabia's air defense forces shot down a ballistic missile 9K72 (Scud-B), launched from Yemen

So finally PAC-3 american latest patriot was able to shoot down Scuds

Not surprising.  First time they tried they were able to shoot 1 of the 5 that Saddam launched down.  But this is a single missile that Houthis launched.  If they launched multiple, then chances are, 1 would get through while others would be shot down.  What it doesn't say is what system was used, how they were shot down and with how many missiles it took to take it down.  Such info will not ever be shared of course.

Much like how Tochka U was supposedly shot down by Pantsir in Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine.

Now the question is, which costs more?  Scuds are cheap apparently, while PAC-3 are not.  But I am very curious to see what the situation is and what the results are if they are ever released.

Not true, the first time was 1 out of 10 scuds, the actual percentage was around 7-8% interception rate against Scuds in Iraq, despite the constant and massive propaganda of Patriot success of being capable to intercept 94% or whatever high number they have propagated.

Huh, I thought it was 5 Scuds that were launched.  Anyway, that makes things worst.

George1 wrote:Huthis ATGM "Metis" hit Saudi LAV-25. At 06:47

magnumcromagnon wrote:Lets see if the Saudi's like having their very own Afghan War, their own Vietnam War...

George1 wrote:"Kornet-E" in Yemen

AlfaT8 wrote:Aaaw, no Bradleys, how disappointing.

I really wanted to see how it's legendary Mithril armour would hold up.