> Those drones can be launched from substantially more than 30-40 miles from the shore. Yeah, you're correct on that, I was probably going by the good old tact

> Those drones can be launched from substantially more than 30-40 miles from the shore. Yeah, you're correct on that, I was probably going by the good old tactic of "bomb everything that adversarially moves on the shorelines from a relative safe distance out in the sea", which tactic was active (among many competing others) sometime at the end of the 19th century - early 20th century (Douhet partially took cues from that naval tactic when writing about his mass aerial bombardments strategy). But as some other poster mentions in a related comment, there are no definitive Houthi bases, so that leaves one with the question: What exactly to bomb? What exactly needs neutralising? The same questions would be as valid and as difficult to answer were carrier-based airplanes to be available in the vicinity.