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> ...bomber incursions into Yemen which of course Egypt has no interest in doing since it could turn into a full hot war pretty easily. How would the Houthis r

by jopsen 3y ago

> ...bomber incursions into Yemen which of course Egypt has no interest in doing since it could turn into a full hot war pretty easily. How would the Houthis respond? Much less, what do they have that can possibly hit Egypt. That said, bombing might not do the trick. Just create more suffering in Yemen.

tomjakubowski 3y ago
Ghadr-110 has a claimed range up to 2000km, which is just about the distance from Sanaa to Cairo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadr-110 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadr-110 https://www.mapdevelopers.com/draw-circle-tool.php?circles=%5B%5B2000000%2C15.3538569%2C44.2058841%2C%22%23AAAAAA%22%2C%22%23000000%22%2C0.4%5D%5D https://www.mapdevelopers.com/draw-circle-tool.php?circles=%...
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  > Ghadr-110 has a claimed range up to 2000km It also seems to have a new place in history. A losing place but still. . . On November 6, 2023, a Ghadr-110 missile was launched from Yemen by the Houthis towards Israel, which was intercepted by the Arrow-2 system while it was still outside of Earth's atmosphere, in what was described as the first instance of combat in space in human history
citrin_ru 3y ago
> How would the Houthis respond? It assumed that Houthi is a proxy of Iran so the question is how Iran would respond.
- jimbob45 3y ago
  I thought the Houthis were no longer receiving funding from Iran with the SA-Iran deal of 2023. Did that change?
  - dragonwriter 3y ago
    > I thought the Houthis were no longer receiving funding from Iran with the SA-Iran deal of 2023. Did that change? I think its more “Iran lied and has used less overt channels” than “that changed”.
mikeyouse 3y ago
This idea of the Houthis as some sort of desert people misses that they took over the military of what was formerly an ally of "The West".. They have attack helicopters: https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855#/SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855&POPUPPN=6&POPUPIID=2C0FQE098IVCU https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2..., https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855#/SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855&PN=5&POPUPPN=293&POPUPIID=2C0FQEKQEA75L https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2... They have American & Soviet fighter jets (F-5 / SU-22): https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855#/SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855&PN=5&POPUPPN=286&POPUPIID=2C0FQEKQ3H3H3 https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2..., https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H4BV3xzWWXk/TnIKIQMOAFI/AAAAAAAABQ4/CZf9pC6Gk_Y/s640/SANAA%252520YEMEN%2525207.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H4BV3xzWWXk/TnIKIQMOAFI/A... They have tons of cruise missiles: https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-RC2XC3AL73TT.html https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-R..., https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-RC2XC3APZC3O.html https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-R... And ballistic missiles: https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-RC2XC3AOMHEX.html https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-R... They're being supplied by Iran and whoever else hates Saudi Arabia, so they have a ton of capability to launch pretty devastating attacks on their neighbors -- hence why we have destroyers and aircraft carriers in the region. The missiles targeting merchant ships are bad -- it'd be worse if they started targeting land-based military targets in other countries.
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > They have American & Soviet fighter jets (F-5 / SU-22) They have, from the accounts I’ve seen (including their own propaganda videos) a single flyable F-5 constituting their entire “fast air combat capability” of those delivered to Yemen more than 40 years ago (and the F-5 was an older cheap export fighter then.) And... I wouldn't expect it to be flyable much longer. Mobile missile launchers may be hard to find and kill on the ground, boring conventional fixed-wing jet fighters aren't, and even though they aren't the strategic target of the coalition the US has put together, US combat doctrine very heavily favors early destruction of an enemy’s air combat capability and air defenses to maximize freedom of operation.
ksherlock 3y ago
Houthis have long range missiles (courtesy of Iran). They regularly launch them at Israel, they can launch them at Egypt too.

by jopsen 3y ago

tomjakubowski 3y ago

Ghadr-110 has a claimed range up to 2000km, which is just about the distance from Sanaa to Cairo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadr-110 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadr-110 https://www.mapdevelopers.com/draw-circle-tool.php?circles=%5B%5B2000000%2C15.3538569%2C44.2058841%2C%22%23AAAAAA%22%2C%22%23000000%22%2C0.4%5D%5D https://www.mapdevelopers.com/draw-circle-tool.php?circles=%...

WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
> Ghadr-110 has a claimed range up to 2000km It also seems to have a new place in history. A losing place but still. . . On November 6, 2023, a Ghadr-110 missile was launched from Yemen by the Houthis towards Israel, which was intercepted by the Arrow-2 system while it was still outside of Earth's atmosphere, in what was described as the first instance of combat in space in human history

citrin_ru 3y ago

> How would the Houthis respond? It assumed that Houthi is a proxy of Iran so the question is how Iran would respond.

jimbob45 3y ago
I thought the Houthis were no longer receiving funding from Iran with the SA-Iran deal of 2023. Did that change?
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > I thought the Houthis were no longer receiving funding from Iran with the SA-Iran deal of 2023. Did that change? I think its more “Iran lied and has used less overt channels” than “that changed”.

mikeyouse 3y ago

This idea of the Houthis as some sort of desert people misses that they took over the military of what was formerly an ally of "The West".. They have attack helicopters: https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855#/SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855&POPUPPN=6&POPUPIID=2C0FQE098IVCU https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2..., https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855#/SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855&PN=5&POPUPPN=293&POPUPIID=2C0FQEKQEA75L https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2... They have American & Soviet fighter jets (F-5 / SU-22): https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855#/SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIXDKYO9LS&SMLS=1&RW=1607&RH=855&PN=5&POPUPPN=286&POPUPIID=2C0FQEKQ3H3H3 https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2..., https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H4BV3xzWWXk/TnIKIQMOAFI/AAAAAAAABQ4/CZf9pC6Gk_Y/s640/SANAA%252520YEMEN%2525207.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H4BV3xzWWXk/TnIKIQMOAFI/A... They have tons of cruise missiles: https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-RC2XC3AL73TT.html https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-R..., https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-RC2XC3APZC3O.html https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-R... And ballistic missiles: https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-RC2XC3AOMHEX.html https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/YEMEN-SECURITY-PARADE-R... They're being supplied by Iran and whoever else hates Saudi Arabia, so they have a ton of capability to launch pretty devastating attacks on their neighbors -- hence why we have destroyers and aircraft carriers in the region. The missiles targeting merchant ships are bad -- it'd be worse if they started targeting land-based military targets in other countries.

dragonwriter 3y ago
> They have American & Soviet fighter jets (F-5 / SU-22) They have, from the accounts I’ve seen (including their own propaganda videos) a single flyable F-5 constituting their entire “fast air combat capability” of those delivered to Yemen more than 40 years ago (and the F-5 was an older cheap export fighter then.) And... I wouldn't expect it to be flyable much longer. Mobile missile launchers may be hard to find and kill on the ground, boring conventional fixed-wing jet fighters aren't, and even though they aren't the strategic target of the coalition the US has put together, US combat doctrine very heavily favors early destruction of an enemy’s air combat capability and air defenses to maximize freedom of operation.

ksherlock 3y ago

Houthis have long range missiles (courtesy of Iran). They regularly launch them at Israel, they can launch them at Egypt too.