not just multiple! allegedly - they say Iran destroyed 8 F-15 planes and 1 A-10 in a single strike on the ground.
And Houthis just did a literal blietzkrieg TODAY - and took several islands, huge territory and an important port - and no news outlets covering this.
This is complete failure of US intelligence and US navy, This is total failure of republican led military. how can you control the seas and let thta happen?
and guess what - red sea - closed. our fleet will have to sail back around Africa now - no I kid you not (or beg Houthis to let them pass - houthis might let em but damn this is bad)
At $88M+ each. Also doesn’t help that we’ve curbed our capacity to produce this kind of aircraft over the last decade. Every lost F-15 will take years to replace, if we can replace them at all.
This is complete failure of US intelligence and US navy, This is total failure of republican led military.
Idk, man. It’s very easy to say this was an intelligence failure. But what if we had these bases with the implicit consent (or, at least, apathy) of those around them? What if there wasn’t any practical defense against an armed uprising of this scale and sophistication?
I do think westerners have this sense of invincibility, such that the only explanation for a defeat is that they misplayed a winning hand. But we fell into that trap in Korea and then in Vietnam and then again in Afghanistan and Iraq. We spend decade after decade fighting these enormous populations of anti-colonial insurgents and losing time after time.
Maybe this isn’t some kind of tactical failure. Maybe we just shouldn’t have picked another losing fight against a bunch of home grown freedom fighters Islamic Extremists when they’d just finished kicking our asses five years ago.
Depending on who you ask, the rulers of Yemen, or insurgents. Houthi itself is the name of a family that most of their leadership is from.
who did they take islands from?
Yemen
are they populated islands?
A few people live on some of the islands and there’s a military base on Mayyun, which is the latest one captured, but the other ones mentioned are from a few days ago. Mayyun is pretty significant strategically due to its location:
not just multiple! allegedly - they say Iran destroyed 8 F-15 planes and 1 A-10 in a single strike on the ground.
And Houthis just did a literal blietzkrieg TODAY - and took several islands, huge territory and an important port - and no news outlets covering this.
This is complete failure of US intelligence and US navy, This is total failure of republican led military. how can you control the seas and let thta happen?
and guess what - red sea - closed. our fleet will have to sail back around Africa now - no I kid you not (or beg Houthis to let them pass - houthis might let em but damn this is bad)
At $88M+ each. Also doesn’t help that we’ve curbed our capacity to produce this kind of aircraft over the last decade. Every lost F-15 will take years to replace, if we can replace them at all.
Idk, man. It’s very easy to say this was an intelligence failure. But what if we had these bases with the implicit consent (or, at least, apathy) of those around them? What if there wasn’t any practical defense against an armed uprising of this scale and sophistication?
I do think westerners have this sense of invincibility, such that the only explanation for a defeat is that they misplayed a winning hand. But we fell into that trap in Korea and then in Vietnam and then again in Afghanistan and Iraq. We spend decade after decade fighting these enormous populations of anti-colonial insurgents and losing time after time.
Maybe this isn’t some kind of tactical failure. Maybe we just shouldn’t have picked another losing fight against a bunch of home grown
freedom fightersIslamic Extremists when they’d just finished kicking our asses five years ago.F-15EX production line is active with 200+ outstanding orders, so maybe not as big of a blow as it could have been a few years ago.
200+ orders when they can’t even produce two a month.
Its also the equal area Africa, so those dumb americans will have to go round ~20% more land, which the US didnt vote for!
/s for those who overrate their cognitive ability
wow, they really did it, they made the US Navy as effective as Russia’s!
I wouldn’t call this a US failure these days. Quite standard, really.
Who is Houthis and who did they take the islands from? And are they populated islands?
Depending on who you ask, the rulers of Yemen, or insurgents. Houthi itself is the name of a family that most of their leadership is from.
Yemen
A few people live on some of the islands and there’s a military base on Mayyun, which is the latest one captured, but the other ones mentioned are from a few days ago. Mayyun is pretty significant strategically due to its location:
The article says that it’s lightly damaged but serviceable though? Where’s your source for the F-15s being damaged?
telegram channnels. god I hate telegram channeles and they could be wrong. but you remember “damagged” sentry? (which was actually destroyed)