Introduction – April 19, 2025
If Trump were a military man, which he isn’t, this should give him serious pause for thought. The U.S. now has two aircraft carriers and a flotilla of support ships on operations against the Houthi. Yet the ragtag Yemen militia remains unbowed by America’s vastly superior firepower.
So what will happen when or if the U.S. military turns its attention to the Houthis’ benefactors, Iran?
This is something Trump keeps hinting at with veiled threats but if he follows through he could be in for a very rude awakening.
Press TV – April 19, 2025
The Yemeni Armed Forces have shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone, the second such aircraft targeted in the last 24 hours, and the 21st downed since the start of retaliatory operations against US interests and Israeli-affiliated vessels in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said the country’s forces had downed the unmanned aerial vehicle, while it was conducting hostile activities in the skies over the country’s northwestern Sa’ada province.
“This marks the second drone of its kind downed in the last 24 hours, bringing to 21 the total [number of] drones intercepted during the Promised Conquest and Holy Jihad battle in support of Gaza,” he announced in a statement on Saturday.
Saree noted that an American spy drone was brought down with a homegrown Yemeni surface-to-air missile, and its downing constitutes the sixth of its type during the current month of April.
The aircraft, which is estimated to cost $33 million, reportedly has a range of 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles) and an operational altitude of 7,600 meters (25,000 feet). It has been utilized by the US military and intelligence units over Yemen for several years.
“Continued US airstrikes and targeting of civilians as well as public and private facilities will not undermine the willpower of faithful Yemeni people, and will not dissuade them from continuing their struggle.
“This will further consolidate their steadfastness and unwavering support for oppressed Palestinians in the face of the genocidal war being waged by the Zionist enemy against our brethren and sisters in Gaza,” Saree pointed out.
He underlined that it is the Yemeni nation’s religious, moral, and humanitarian duty to demonstrate solidarity with Palestinians.
Yemenis have been hitting Israeli and American targets in support of Palestinians in Gaza since the regime launched its devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, and in response to the American-British aggression on their homeland.
The operations have effectively shut down the Eilat port south of the occupied territories, causing significant economic setbacks for the Israelis.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have said they will not stop their attacks until Israel’s ground and aerial offensives in Gaza end, and the crippling siege against the Palestinian coastal territory is completely lifted.
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The houthies are not a ragtag army they are well organised to deliver results.
I think perhaps Tulsi Gabbard may be getting good intel from her sources in the Pentagon and she’s been able to convince Trump the US will have problems against Iran. Not only does it have allies but it will be formidable itself, as some of the tech it supplies to the Houthis has proven.
Regards war and menacing others, the only thing keeping America in the First Division isn’t its fighting ability, because not since the Pacific Campaign of WWII has it been that good. Nor is it their weapons, because they’re not that good either. It’s that they print the reserve currency that gives them muscle, but when that’s gone they’ll fall down the warrior league tables rapidly, after which we’ll discover in what league a boondoggle army belongs. Perhaps it’s a league of their own.
Yeah man, Yemen, the poorest country, is the soul superpower, the most moral army in the world.
The addiction to cashisch inevitably leads to hemorrhagic Stupiditas.
– Voltman’s Theorem
thanks voltman always love your comments
Another super effective Iranian weapon named 358 is the likely unique weapon used to shoot down US drones over Yemen.
https://english.iswnews.com/37425/military-knowledge-358-missile-the-worlds-first-drone-based-air-defense-missile/
Iran has shown a habit to deploy weapons to the region and then years later reveal them in some military parade! : )
One of the new breeds of weapons used by the Resistance Axis is known in the west simply as “358” or صقر, which is a first of its-kind loitering anti-aircraft missile. It acts like a drone and then accelerates to attack enemy drones or helicopters like a missile that has proximity fuse. There are different version of it, there is even one version that has a bladed propeller for long endurance and a solid-fuel rocket that activates when it is to attack the target. They are easily launched from the ground and they need no predefined target, they just loiter or patrol specific parts of the sky in a defined path and when it passively (no active radar and this is not easily illuminated or seen by enemy radars) detects an incoming target and will attack with its booster. It is weapons like these that matter. You can store its parts anywhere and assemble it quickly and launch it by just placing on the ground! Reliable, cheap, effective, easy to utilize, and a pain in the butt for former superpower armies that fight extremely inefficiently and expensive!
Legends has it that as part of the retribution for assassination of Qassem Suleimani, then head of CIA’s Iran-table Michael DeAndrea was killed in his spy plane over Afghanistan by such a weapon. The tail number of the Spy Plane was 358 so the anti-air weapons was named after it!
https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/cia-mystery-did-the-taliban-kill-ayatollah-mike-2/
@Frisbee
I agree, bearing in mind the Yemenites have been at war with Nato and their Saudi lackeys which ran away like scared dogs from the fight, since the middle 2000′ and at this point, better trained than their enemies would like them to be.
The Rothschild Jewry-run US & West ain’t kickin’ no one’s ass! Much less Iran! What do you think Russia would do to those Reaper Drones? Ha! The US would run out of them. They’d ALL be shot down, along with the piece-of-shit F-35s if they dare show their faces over Iranian or Russian airspace! The west is BEGGING for a major ass-whippin’!