The following footage from the Yemeni, houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah Channel shows the Saudi Battleship being attacked by Yemeni Coastal Defence.
The attack comes in response to the ongoing military aggression against the sovereign Yemeni nation, by a coalition led by Saudi-Arabia, supported by western powers, including the US.
The video has simply been taken from two angles and visibly from some kind of dinghy or small speedboat as you can see water drops on the lens. IMHO, the captain will find himself into trouble for neglecting threats : the defence systems were clearly ‘off’ as if they were in peace-time. Had such systems been on, the speed boat had been spotted for long then destroyed, there wasn’t even a reaction from the CIWS. There was already a UAE ship that took a serous hit and 2 attempts to hit US destroyers… US had their systems on and weren’t… Read more »
Maybe is time to admit your Systems with a zillion rpm doesnt really work? rather that keep telling that it was off each time it happens? by the way it was a missile.
And at the same time, US make the Houthi’s day by attacking Qaeda, how funny! More on the airstrike which actually wasn’t at all an airstrike but a Seal Team 6 operation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlyv_WViNp0 Which allowed them to nonetheless send a score of qaedans to their 72 virgins but also to seize hard drives and intel. It is told that Obama admin wouldn’t have authorized the action and ROEs will be changed as Obama led the militaries at a level where they have to wait to be shot at and wounded/killed before having the right to shoot… Many thins like… Read more »
Again the battle ships needed to be bigger ( much wider)and longer. It also needed smaller and more numerous water tight compartments and deeper draft so even multiple bombs would never reach the magazine. If this had happened we would of seen the entire US fleet engaging one ship and it would of escaped. The design flaws made it fail.
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