Peter1469 (09-14-2019)
Turn the Israeli's loose. They want to take Iranian nuke sites out.
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
MMC (09-18-2019),The Sage of Main Street (09-15-2019)
Captdon (09-19-2019)
Captdon (09-19-2019),The Sage of Main Street (09-15-2019)
It looks like it wasn't the Houthies after all. They are not known to have the capacity to reach that far with what we know of their equipment. Red State pieced together data provided by SecState and some news sources and offers that an Iranian backed militia in Iraq used precision-guided missiles to hit the targets in Saudi Arabia. (And I had another thread about this threat today.)
Some things in the story, however, never made sense. For instance, the range was well over 500 miles from Houthi territory (here I’m just measuring from the Yemeni border) which is extreme for the drones they have, particularly if they are carrying enough ordnance to cause the damage we see in the video. The Houthi use the Iranian Qasef-1 drone which has a range of about less than 300 miles on a suicide mission and can carry a payload of about 60-lbs. Blame me for the bad graphic:
It didn’t take long, however, for imagery to be produced that indicated something different:
[See image at link]
What you’re looking at there appears to be a cruise missile that pancaked enroute. This makes much more sense than an drone because the we know the Houthi have deployed cruise missiles before and the range and payload make the attack and the damage from the attack plausible.
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A direct attack of this scale on Saudi Arabia by Iranian proxy forces in Iraq definitely is a different situation than Yemeni rebels shooting cruise missiles. Rather than the low grade war that Saudi Arabia is involved in with the Houthi, this now threatens to be come a much more significant and broader conflict that could suck in the United States and Israel.
ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Captdon (09-15-2019)