[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Updated my original comment with some statements from both sides, the USA and a news correspondent on the ground in Yemen (yes I know I'm doing the "both sides" joke, I'm not validating the USA I'm just posting what they said they did).

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

also isntreal bombing yemen

It was the USA according to the CENTCOM statement. An Al Arabiya Washington correspondent even leaked it last night, thinking that the bombing already took place. Or maybe there was also a bombing last night, who knows anymore.

CENTCOM statement:

On Dec. 16 Yemen time, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a precision airstrike against a key command and control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis within Houthi-controlled territory in Sana’a, Yemen.

The targeted facility was a hub for coordinating Houthi operations, such as attacks against U.S. Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The strike reflects CENTCOM’s ongoing commitment to protect U.S. and coalition personnel, regional partners, and international shipping.

Al-Mayadeen News:

US and British raids targeted the Ministry of Defense headquarters in the Al-Urdi area in the center of the capital, Sana'a

Seems like the first time Sana'a got hit in the US campaign against Yemen and Ansarallah. Wonder what the response will be.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

This bit will never end lol.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Giving a 610,000 lb MTOW, 300+ seat wide body airliner that's over 200ft long, 4 engines with just over 30 000lbf of thrust each, was certainly a choice. That's a thrust to weight ratio barely over 0.2 at maximum takeoff weight. It's a miracle it gets off of the ground.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At least the weather balloon was actually real and got shot down, by an F-22 lol. I haven't seen any real evidence of the drones being real.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

Don't forget Mars!

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't understand how a society with such advanced technology can be so ignorant. I think modern smartphones with their camera arrays are playing a large part here. Now anyone can get a camera in their hands with decent zoom and low light capabilities, and take point and click photos of the sky and whatever's in it, and post it on twitter or Reddit, where's there's no moderation.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lol. But passenger airlines are super cool, I remember seeing the underside of an A-340 once at an airshow. It's a miracle that something so large can fly with such small engines. Seriously, Google an A-340-300, it's powered by four hairdryers! That's some real alien technology everytime it manages to take off without using the whole runway lol.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Someone might try shoot down an airliner of military transport aircraft though, there are so many guns in the US, they might fire at them. People have already pointed lasers at them, which could blind the pilots.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 78 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If anyone wants a good source going through the recent drone/UAV/UAP hysteria in the USA, the twitter account I'll link below goes through it video by video, ID'ing the objects using geolocation techniques and FlightRadar24. Spoiler alert: it's all civilian or military aircraft. On some occasions it's stars our out of focus lights.

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Whoever's running this PsyOp, you can shut it down now lol. The American people are more ignorant than you estimated.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Al Arabiya's Washington correspondent Joseph Haboush is reporting that the USA has conducted airstrikes within Yemen tonight against Ansarallah (known as the Houthis in most western media). Details apparently will be released in the next few hours. While Al Arabiya is usually a trash source, if anyone is going to have info on US bombings, it would be those dogs of the US empire and Saudi Arabia.

Also more massacres have occurred in Gaza, with some very graphic footage currently spreading on social media, reports of 20-25 fatalities from a single bombing, genocided by Israel. Tonight has been terrible, with US-Israeli aggression across multiple countries.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 56 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Israeli airstrikes on ex SAA military installations in Syria are continuing. A massive ammunition depot in Tartus was just hit, resulting in a huge amount of secondary explosions from the ammunition cooking off, explosions that may still be ongoing at this time, and hours from now, depending on how much ammunition was stored at the facility.

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Videos showing secondary explosions, twitter source

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Anyone living nearby should stay indoors for their own safety for the time being, being hit by a stray artillery round or rocket that went off or is going to go off is a possibility. Some videos of similar strikes in the past have shown rocket artillery cooking off and flying in all directions.

This video shows an impact alarmingly close to the camera person

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Managed to geolocate the apparent target by finding some similar looking houses to the photo, and using some preliminary earthquake data posted on twitter (3.0 on the Richter scale apparently), looks like an air defence base/site (or a military installation this air defence system was protecting nearby) visible on Google maps, co ordinates 34.847786N 35.989365E

A lot of ammunition must've been stored there for such a massive explosion, with secondaries, to occur. I'm guessing the air defence system protecting this site was a S-125 variant based off of the missile shape. While a Soviet era system first produced in the 1960s with a range between 15-35km depending on the variant, it is notable that the S-125 was the system that shot down a stealth F-117 Nighthawk bomber in Yugoslavia, as well as having shot down multiple F-16s during various conflicts. So still capable against modern aircraft in certain situations. With it not being operational, we can see the end result...

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