Noah Robertson, Stephen Losey and Jen Judson – Defense News April 2, 2025
The U.S. military has deployed more of its most advanced fighter jets to the Middle East as it continues to strike Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an Iran-backed terrorist group attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea, according to multiple congressional aides.
The fifth-generation F-35A is the Air Force’s premier fighter, which includes stealth capabilities and advanced sensors and can carry a variety of air-to-air and air-to-ground guided weaponry.
The Pentagon previously surged the fighters to the Middle East amid the conflict in Gaza, while trying to contain a full regional war. While there, the fighters conducted airstrikes against the Houthis during the Biden administration’s campaign to reopen shipping lanes.
More than two weeks into the Trump administration’s intensified airstrike campaign in Yemen, Hegseth has rushed further military assets to U.S. Central Command. He’s extended the deployment of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group in the Red Sea and announced the carrier Carl Vinson and its strike group would soon join it. The Pentagon has also sent multiple A-10 Warthogs to the region and at least six B-2 stealth bombers to Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia, a U.S. base in the Indian Ocean.
That means that roughly half of the Air Force’s B-2 fleet that is able to carry out missions is now deployed to Diego Garcia. The Air Force has 20 total B-2 Spirits, but only about 55% of them were mission-capable in 2024, according to service statistics.
At the same time, the U.S. has redirected multiple scarce air defense systems from South Korea to the Middle East, including two Patriot batteries and one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, battery.
“Secretary Hegseth continues to make clear that, should Iran or its proxies threaten American personnel and interests in the region, the United States will take decisive action to defend our people,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement Tuesday evening.
The posture changes send a clear signal to Iran, the Houthis’ main backer and America’s top adversary in the region. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Tehran in recent weeks to cut its support for the group or risk American retaliation.
“The choice for the Houthis is clear: Stop shooting at U.S. ships, and we will stop shooting at you. Otherwise, we have only just begun, and the real pain is yet to come, for both the Houthis and their sponsors in Iran,” Trump posted on his Truth Social app on Monday.
The Houthis have been one of the most resilient parts of Iran’s regional proxy network, badly damaged after attacks from Israel over the last year.
Shortly after Israel’s war in Gaza began in the fall of 2023, the group began targeting commercial ships transiting the Red Sea with missiles and aerial drones. The Houthis continued those attacks despite repeated American strikes and a U.S.-led coalition launched to protect global maritime trade, which eventually rerouted elsewhere.
Still, despite two weeks of renewed U.S. strikes on Houthi sites across Yemen — hitting over 100 command posts, stockpiles, launch sites and even leaders — the group has not backed down and commercial shipping companies have not returned to the Red Sea.
As some witty commentator stated here recently about the F35: “Pigs Can Fly” 🙂
See how extremely right wing and Nazified this article it. Doesn’t mention US navy ships damaged by Hootie missiles and drones, or that the USSR Harry S. Truman lost its eyes and ears in the sky, and was also damaged, no mention, silence.
17 Reaper drones taken out, and as many pundits report, the US is hitting civilians targets, because they’ve no reliable intel on Hooti positions.
Maybe the three named above advise Donald Hitler?
myself and my ex wife went on the pro palestine march through london
and several people were singing the ” beware thye dirty jew ” song
i rold them 2 men got jailed for 2 years a piece for singing that recently
My dad was in the royal engineers and when drunk in the pub they used to sing that, but you dare not sing it today
The US cannot call its stealth jets superior while they just bomb civilians with no anti-aircraft capabilities. There are still airborne-capable WWI biplanes that can do that. These stealth jets have to take on and beat another country’s jets, whether Chinese, Russian or Iranian or even a European or Swedish jet will do. But until they prove themselves they’re just another aircraft, not a superior one. Heck, the F-35 can’t even get airborne sometimes. What good’s that? Even the WWI biplane can get airborne when it’s time to go up for a show, a show which the F-35s have sometimes had to withdraw from for “technical” reasons. At other shows where China and Russia’s have displayed their latest aircraft the US has withdrawn the F-35, no doubt so they cannot be compared against the competition.
They couldn’t get them to fly. That’s not technical. It’s failure.
GOD BLESS THE HOUTHIS
How quickly the UK is being forced to a cashless society as banks close across UK
Story by Abigail Nicholson •
After the closure of more than 1,500 banks in the last four years, people are being forced to move towards online banking. New analysis by LINK, the UK’s cash access and ATM network, shows that the shift away from cash has sped up dramatically since the pandemic.
The monetary collapse is coming,, all banks lead to Rothschild, he will steal your money
Cash use has been in decline over the last 20 years, as more customers are forced to bank and pay for things digitally or with contactless cards.
the man said ” you will have nothing and be happy “
Oh, the F-35, huh? I’m sure the Who-Ts and Iranians are pissing down their legs…with laughter. The F-35 is a lurching shit-bucket, a complete design cluster-f*ck and failure from the start, and certainly so once the Jews stole all detailed specs on it years ago in a massive data breach and sold all the details on the open market.
The Americunts would be better off launching dumpsters into the air, “manned” by deranged costumed imbeciles with bad haircuts shooting marbles from slingshots rather than trying to get those lumbering “stealth” outhouses airborne and into combat.
The retards and mountebanks who designed that shit-bucket and had anything to do with spending even one mumping centavo on that dodo should have their ribs removed with pliers and their heads forced up their own asses.