Yemen strike on Saudi
 

Have the Yemen really just launched what is reported as an R-27 derivative type missile at Riyadh airport?

Where is this technology coming from?

Is that a rhetorical question? :hmm::hmm:

Well there are various options - China, Iran, Russia, North Korea ...

Who will the Saudis have a barny at (apart from Yemen) if these actually start to hit Riyadh?

Is the source known? I would have thought so.

This campaign seems to have been going on for a while, but outside the more specialist/niche Press it doesn't seem to have been widely reported:

"Yemeni rebels enhance ballistic missile campaign"

http://www.janes.com/images/assets/3...e_campaign.pdf

So when Saudi hits Yemen and Yemen strikes back, the score is.....

.....2 - 0 in our favor :}

Trump ha sure just said it's Iran too.

Are these from mobile launchers? The technology / fuel etc. looks quite complicated.

Thanks, Wiggy.


The Jane's report provides a very detailed picture, indeed.

Alert 5 » U.N. says Yemen missiles fired at Saudi have ?common origin? - Military Aviation News

A group of United Nations experts have examined the wreckage of missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi forces.

The preliminary conclusion was that the missiles appear to have a “common origin.” But, the officials are not sure if the source is Iran. However, the components examined “bore the castings of a logo similar to that of the Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group.”

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote this in the fourth biannual report on the implementation of U.N. sanctions and restrictions on Iran.

Guterres added that the experts are still analyzing the information collected and will report back to the Security Council.

The Saudis have stuck their feet into the Yemeni swamp (similar to Afghanistan or Vietnam)

They've killed over 12000 Yemenis in air strikes and no one is sure why

What goes around................

the Young Prince in Riyadh is finding out the world is a tougher place than he thought

Having gone through the ME for most of my life, lived there for four years . . . . oh Gawd/Allah . . . . the only thing they've learned from the West/Russia appears to be proxy wars.

It all looks quite seductive when you're in an air conditioned office looking at the Generals saying what you can do with all that expensive kit...

why no-one doesn't open a history book before deciding is beyond me - I mean look at us - FOUR Afghan Wars and everyone somewhere between a total disaster and a simple waste of time, effort and lives

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". George Santayana philosopher

“History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"
Probably Mark Twain, the first time.

Probably Edmund Burke, 100 years before Mark Twain.

I didn't know that, does that mean I am destined to repeat it or just let George Santayana do it for me? Whilst Happy George was content to acknowledge he wasn't the first to use this, or a similar version of this, line and he is the one in print, I don't know where either Mark or Edmund actually said it or printed it, there are just repetitions throughout time.

Readers moght find this article of interest...US shows wreckage of Iranian made weapons used against Saudi Arabia.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-saudi-arabia/

Saudis shoot down seven missiles fired on cities by Yemen's Houthi rebels

Saudi air defences have shot down seven ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi militia as the kingdom’s three-year military campaign against the rebel group threatened to escalate.

Saudi forces destroyed three missiles over north-eastern Riyadh shortly before midnight on Sunday, with debris killing a man in what was the first death in the capital during the conflict. Other missiles were fired at the southern cities of Najran, Jizan and Khamis Mushait, the coalition said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.

Debris from the missiles fell on a home in Riyadh, killing an Egyptian resident and wounding two other Egyptians, said coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki, according to SPA. Reuters reporters in Riyadh heard several booms and saw smoke in the air. Another witness said he saw a long stream of light followed by additional explosions....


The attack marked the third time in five months that missiles have flown over Riyadh, as the Houthis step up efforts to demonstrate they can reach the Saudi capital, and threatened to escalate a regional rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

The Houthi-run SABA news agency reported the group’s missile force had targeted King Khalid international airport in Riyadh with a Burkan H2 missile. The group also fired other types of missiles at airports in Jizan, Najran and Abha, another southern Saudi city, according to the SABA report.......

Patriot missiles fail spectacularly during intercept of Yemeni ballistic missile

Yemen’s Houthis faction fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and two Patriot missiles that were fired to intercept it failed spectacularly in mid-air. One exploded after launch while another went ballistic and hit the ground.

https://theaviationist.com/2018/03/2...iyadh-instead/


A known issue with "The wrong type of snow"

Hopefully the reprisals against the Houthis will be severe.