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US airstrikes on Yemen continue for the 14th night in a row, with multiple airstrikes reported in Sa'ana city, Saada city, Saada Governorate, and Al Jawf Governorate.

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Well Ansarallah did state that they would close off the sea to Israeli ships. So the US decided to take initiative and attack Yemen before Ansarallah fired on a Israeli linked ship, and before the ceasefire in Gaza broke down which would have led to the resumption of direct Yemeni ballistic missile attacks on Israel. That way the US can take the first actions, before any Israeli bombings of Yemen, or before Yemen starts firing at ships or Israel. The US gets to dictate the pace of current engagements unless Ansarallah decide a wider escalation is necessary.

There have also been advancements in the US Navy and Air Force ,more on that in this thread, being able to defend themselves against unmanned aerial systems, namely drones and cruise missiles, with new weaponry and tactics. That allows the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier to remain closer to Yemen than before, at most between 700-800km away from Yemen in Jeddah and just capable of just absorbing the drone and cruise missile attacks without having to retreat further. 700km is the important number here because it's the maximum range of the Zolfogar Basir Anti Ship Ballistic Missile. The aircraft carrier can also venture closer to Yemen to launch attacks, later falling back to the 700km distance before getting overwhelmed by large Ansarallah attacks. The closer the aircraft carrier can get, the more sorties the aircraft onboard can launch within a certain time frame.

The message to Iran is also there and obvious, especially with the 5-7 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers in Diego Garcia.

The left giving up the "anti imperialist" position to the right is quite a worrying sign. And it's been happening in Europe since the start of the Ukraine - Russia war.

US airstrikes on Yemen continue for the 13th night in a row, with multiple rounds of airstrikes, with multiple strikes each, targeting various areas of the capital city Sana'a, including the leadership centre and airport, along with various strikes in different areas in the Sana'a, Saada and Hodeidah Governorates.

Strikes reported in Al Jawf Governorate.

Strikes targeting mountains in Amran Governorate. 8 airstrikes reported.

Total of 19 airstrikes targeting Arman Governorate, including communications networks.

Very intense rounds of airstrikes currently taking place.

More airstrikes in Marib Governorate.

Over 45 total airstrikes reported tonight, this is the most intense round of airstrikes since the beginning of the current campaign against Ansarallah in Yemen.

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Die Linke should have been thrown in the bin over a year ago after their "Rosa Luxemburg Foundation" published this horrific piece on Palestine - Israel.

https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/51112/against-the-logic-of-violence

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is affiliated with the «Left Party» [Die Linke] in the Federal Republic of Germany. As is the case with other German party-affiliated foundations, it receives funding from the public budget

And most importantly threaten critical infrastructure across the Peninsula to increase the scale of the zone of engagement

Abdul-Malik al-Houthi gave a speech yesterday specifically calling out all the Arab regimes for collaborating with Israel, so I guess striking them is an escalation option they are considering, and it makes sense given their capabilities. A lot easier to hit a static oil field or refinery than a moving ship.

It's quite a depressing development from a resistance perspective (which I guess almost all of us share) because it means now that the US Carrier Strike Group (CSG) only needs to remain out of range of Ansarallah's anti ship ballistic missiles(ASBMs), (max range 500km for Tankeel/Raad-500, maybe 700km if Iran gives them Zolfogar Basir), and that the CSG can just absorb the long range drone and cruise missile attacks, the few that get through the air patrols can be dealt with by the ships themselves. While remaining outside of the range of ASBMs is blunting the CSG's attacks and US airstrikes as the US fighter planes have to fly longer distances, airstrikes are still happening, and the CSG is not being driven to the extreme north of the Red Sea or anything like that anymore (aside from maybe day two of this lastest conflict).

Editing to say that satellite imagery from the 19th March 2025 has confirmed this, the USS Harry Truman is operating off of the coast of Jeddah, around 700-800km from Yemen. So outside of ASBM range (Zolfogar Basir has a 700km range), but within the range of cruise missiles and drones. This explains why Ansarallah did not launch any ASBMs over the past two nights, the CSG was out of range.

The solution is probably to give Ansarallah longer range ASBMs, but that's an idea with its own big issues. The short range ASBMs Ansarallah currently use don't have any midcourse guidance updates, they fire them at the general location the enemy ship is expected to be at, the Manoeuvrable Re-entry Vehicle (MaRV) of the missile does a pull up manoeuvre and performs a short glide phase, in which it's terminal guidance systems (EO/IR sensors or radar) locate the target and dive down to it. This all happenes in a handful of minutes, the Tankeel/Raad 500 has a burnout velocity of Mach 8 (2.7 kilometres per second), and an impact velocity of probably around Mach 1.5-2. A ship can't move that far in that time, which is why this approach works, from missile launch to glide phase, the ship can't move out of the effective range of the terminal guidance systems on the MaRV. Once you start trying to hit ships over longer ranges, the ships can move further, and you need midcourse guidance updates to ensure that the MaRV arrives in a close enough proximity to the target for the terminal guidance systems to work. Who is going to provide that midcourse guidance? Iran with their own ships, or Iran giving Ansarallah long range radars that datalink to the ASBMs? I think the US would consider that an act of war. I also don't think Ansarallah has this capability themselves. China's ASBMs use AWACS aircraft to provide midcourse guidance updates for instance. That's a capability not currently in the possession of Iran or Ansarallah.

Another solution would be really fast (Mach 3+) cruise missiles or really stealthy subsonic cruise missiles. But I don't see Russia or China giving these weapons to Ansarallah.

The first footage has been released, Xcancel mirror of the US Air Force, Navy or Marine Corps using APKWS laser guided rockets to shoot down Ansarallah (known as the Houthis in western media) drones and cruise missiles. I was talking a few days ago about how this was already happening, but now it's confirmed by video footage from CENTCOM themselves.

What is APKWS? To put it simply, APKWS is a conversion kit that turns unguided Hydra-70 rockets (of which 5 million exist) into laser guided short range missiles. Similar to how a Paveway kit turns an unguided bomb into a laser guided bomb, or a JDAM kit turns an unguided bomb into a GPS guided bomb, APKWS turns unguided rockets into guided missiles. APKWS was first designed only to be used against ground targets, but the Ukrainians, when firing them from their VAMPIRE ground and sea based launch systems, proved that it can be used successfully against cruise missiles and drones, and as a result the US military is doing the same, and even planning modifications to APKWS to make it even more effective against air targets, such as adding infrared terminal guidance.

Ukrainian VAMPIRE system taking out Russian cruise missiles and drones

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Why is this significant? For two reasons: cost and magazine size. APKWS is very cheap, the guidance section only costs $15 000, and the warheads and rocket motors, of which millions are currently in US stockpiles, only cost a few thousand dollars each, for a total cost of between $20 000 - $25 000 per missile/guided rocket. In comparison, an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile launched from US fighter aircraft costs upwards of $400 000 each, and the ship launched SM series of interceptors cost anywhere from $2 -$9 million, depending on the model. So this is a very significant cost saving for the US, the APKWS guided rockets might even be cheaper than the drones and cruise missiles they shoot down.

The second is magazine size. While a fighter aircraft can only carry a handful of sidewinders and other air to air missiles at a time, it can carry dozens of APKWS rockets at a time, as these rockets can be fitted on seven shot rocket pods, which only take up one hardpoint each. This F/A-18 has 14 APKWS guided rockets on one wing (two 7 shot launchers), for a total of 28 guided rockets if the loadout is replicated symmetrically on the other wing. Note with the adaptor, that two seven shot rocket pods are only using a single hardpoint.

These two factors make defending against drone swarms a possibility, both in terms of being cost effective, and in terms of the amount of guided rockets available at a single given time for intercept missions. This could be why drone and cruise missile attacks on US Navy ships are not as effective as before. While in Ukraine the use of APKWS guided rockets is limited to their ground and sea based launching systems, such as technicals and fastboats, the United States does not have such limitations and can fit these to aircraft, enabling defence over a much wider area. The APKWS guided rockets themselves have a very short range, only a few kilometres/miles, meaning that they can only defend a very limited area from ground/sea based launch platforms. So mounting them to a fighter aircraft vastly increases the area that can be defended by them, and detection capabilities for drones out of range of the APKWS (fighter aircraft have their own radar).

Make no mistake, the US military is learning their lessons when it comes to the Ukraine war, the confrontations with Ansarallah in the Red Sea, and defending against Iranian ballistic missiles.

Ivan you forgot to buy domain, we lose website.

Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is my DNS records!

Once your DNS cache flushes it will stop working. Just happened to me.

Also if we lose the domain we could lose some users who will never come back and think that we no longer exist. Some of those users could be relying on us for mutual aid and stuff like that.

I absolutely hate the King of Jordan. I think there has to be a special category in the @LargePenis@hexbear.net "gigachad-cuck rankings" reserved just for him, it's impossible to be more subservient and pathetic than he is.