War Archive 2023 10/19 Houthis/Yemen Vs Israel & The Red Sea Crisis

[Sharma Ji]

I agree, Doc. These harkats by Houthis are not helping the Iranian cause in any way.

USS Truman wala alag tha, one, that they are a legit target, and 2, great success.. because a super-hornet fell off the deck during evasive maneuvers. What an unbelievable underdog victory over the mightiest NAVY ka mightiest jahaj !

Kya milega inko attacking ships crewed mostly by Pinoys, Malays, and Desis ?

They have scuds for ballistic missiles and a number of soviet era sams for offense and defense, they are repurposing old R series Russian air to air missiles in an air to ground role (likely with Iranian tech help), they are super well entrenched in their mountain caves, they've allegedly shot down or at least damaged an Al Sawdia F-15, and a USAF MQ9 Reaper or global hawk (one of those)

but civvie commercial ships ko gira ke kya mil raha hai apart from the scorn of the rest of the world ? Iran need to rein them in, these mad dogs.

 

[Vsdoc]

I agree, Doc. These harkats by Houthis are not helping the Iranian cause in any way.

USS Truman wala alag tha, one, that they are a legit target, and 2, great success.. because a super-hornet fell off the deck during evasive maneuvers. What an unbelievable underdog victory over the mightiest NAVY ka mightiest jahaj !

Kya milega inko attacking ships crewed mostly by Pinoys, Malays, and Desis ?

They have scuds for ballistic missiles and a number of soviet era sams for offense and defense, they are repurposing old R series Russian air to air missiles in an air to ground role (likely with Iranian tech help), they are super well entrenched in their mountain caves, they've allegedly shot down or at least damaged an Al Sawdia F-15, and a USAF MQ9 Reaper or global hawk (one of those)

but civvie commercial ships ko gira ke kya mil raha hai apart from the scorn of the rest of the world ? Iran need to rein them in, these mad dogs.

I never said Hoosi tactics are not helping Iran.

I am responding to @Lulldapull 's contention that Iran would have been better served by claiming the ships as spoils of war.

You either do not read properly or you read into a post what you want to read.

 

[Vsdoc]

Control over a choke point on commercial shipping is a huge bargaining chip @Sharma Ji

Do not pretend to recognize it in Malacca because it serves our Indian interests but get all ethical here because it serves Iran's.

 

[Lulldapull]

I agree, Doc. These harkats by Houthis are not helping the Iranian cause in any way.

USS Truman wala alag tha, one, that they are a legit target, and 2, great success.. because a super-hornet fell off the deck during evasive maneuvers. What an unbelievable underdog victory over the mightiest NAVY ka mightiest jahaj !

Kya milega inko attacking ships crewed mostly by Pinoys, Malays, and Desis ?

They have scuds for ballistic missiles and a number of soviet era sams for offense and defense, they are repurposing old R series Russian air to air missiles in an air to ground role (likely with Iranian tech help), they are super well entrenched in their mountain caves, they've allegedly shot down or at least damaged an Al Sawdia F-15, and a USAF MQ9 Reaper or global hawk (one of those)

but civvie commercial ships ko gira ke kya mil raha hai apart from the scorn of the rest of the world ? Iran need to rein them in, these mad dogs.

Bhai 3 super hornets were lost overall no? One fell off during hard turn. Second snapped the arrestor cable and plunged into paani right off the deck and the third was shot down by own defenses a few months prior whilst the Truman was bracketed by hoosi drones and missiles no…..

Truman also lost an E-2 Hawkeye to an errant hoosi manpad and more than likely took a few drone hits which slipped past the defense screen.

It’s been in the dock a few times now for repairs.

The more poignant thing is that Iran hasn’t targeted it yet……it’s only allowed the hoosi to do it with downgraded Iranian weaponry.

If Iran goes after it, the Truman ain’t goin be floating bhai.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Control over a choke point on commercial shipping is a huge bargaining chip @Sharma Ji

Do not pretend to recognize it in Malacca because it serves our Indian interests but get all ethical here because it serves Iran's.

Malacca is a potential choke point in case war with China breaks out, expect the USN to do the heavy lifting there if it ever comes to that, with IN doing logistics wala chaprasi kaam and keeping the effort going from the Andamans.

They've shown a lot of interest in there, refueling stop karte hain udhar unke aircraft, also done some joint exercises in the region.

We don't have rogue militias just lobbing drones and missiles at random cargo vessels lol

big difference.