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Today the Yemeni Army (Ansarallah) shot down the 6th American Scan Eagle drone of the invading US-Saudi coalition of 2021.

Invading US-Saudi coalition of mercenaries withdrew from Hodeidah and Ansarallah now control all of Hodeidah city and port and a vast stretch of coastal land (>800km^2)



The US-Saudi-UAE-mercenary invaders made a huge effort to seize and occupy the strategic port city of Hodeidah from Ansarallah in 2018. They managed to enter the outskirts of the city but a UN-mediated truce stopped the fighting. Now they have withdrawn and the Yemeni army is in total control of the port city and coast.

Hodeidah is the fourth largest city in Yemen and hosts Yemen's most important port on the Red Sea.

Yemen map of control - April 2021:



Yemeni army (Ansarallah and Popular Committees) in green, US-Saudi-backed Hadi regime (in exile) in red, separatist UAE-backed Southern Transition Council in Yellow.

Yemen map of control - November 2021:



Yemeni army (Ansarallah and Popular Committees) in red, US-Saudi-backed Hadi regime (in exile) in green, separatist UAE-backed Southern Transition Council in blue.

In the past six months, the Yemen Army and popular committees liberated approx. 3200km^2 of land on the south of the strategic oil rich province of Marib (east of the capital Sana'a).

And now they have also liberated > 800km^2 of land on the strategic Red Sea coast, including Hodeidah city port and a strip of land 100km long down the Western Red Sea coast of Yemen.

The US-Saudi-coalition backed Hadi regime (still in hiding in Saudi Arabia) no longer even controls their capital-in-exile, Aden, as the separatist Southern Transitional Council has taken control and has sporadic clashes with the US-Saudi-backed Hadi regime fighters.

The next (and possibly last) strategic objective of the Yemeni army will be to liberate the oil-rich Ma'rib province entirely.

Is egypt under some kind of embargo for long range SAMs? It's interesting that their navy has so many nice modern ships (3 fremms, 4 Meko A200, 4 OHPs and 4 Gowinds) but are all equipped with short to medium range sams

A major boost for Rafale:

Yukiolweipqled51 said:

Possible.

It's also possible they can't purchase long range SAM from the United States since that would upset their old enemy/neighbour to the East.

Likewise, they can't possibly purchase long range SAM from Russia for the same reason bearing in mind that many Israelis are actually immigrants from Russia. Even if such SAMs were purchased, expect Russians to compromise the system through backdoors installed.

In that regard, an indigenous solution would always be preferred. Egypt, much like Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India or Indonesia, seems to be lacking. Ideally Egyptians should try to go the Iranian route and develop their own domestic equivalent of the Bavar 373. There are obviously domestic constraints that does not allow such a pursuit that would be too tedious to summarise.

However, no foreign imported long range SAM can be as effective as a domestically developed one for almost all countries in almost all circumstances.

Egyptians operate the S-350VM for their land based air defence command.

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Reason 2 doesn't apply as Syria got S-400 from Russia

You're right about America though, and it's the same reason why their airforce doesn't get advanced AAM missiles.

Abominable said:

Reason 2 doesn't apply as Syria got S-400 from Russia

You're right about America though, and it's the same reason why their airforce doesn't get advanced AAM missiles.

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Syria doesn't have s-400. Russia brought s-400 systems to its own military bases in Syria. Syria finally received old versions of the s-300 a few years ago, but there is even debate about whether Syria is allowed (by Russia) to operate those independently.

Yes

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was Russian and his secretary Polish: Benzion Netanyahu

"Our colonial project" (Jabotinsky) was founded by Russians and Poles

Judaism in Greek and Roman times was an enormously widespread religion, in particular it spread like wildfire among women, and continued to spread until the late Antiquity when it closed in on itself

Of the three branches (Mizrahim, Sefardim, Askenazim) the latter thrived in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ...


... thanks to an intermediary role in the "Totempole":

(A) Catholic ruling class
(B) yiddish people
(C) Christian peasantry

This paradise (for A and B) was destroyed when the "Flood" came


From that time comes animosity and resentment

In the 19th century part of the Yiddish people emigrated to the United States, another part later became Bolsheviks, another part went elsewhere, and another part founded "our (bloody) colonial project"

For example: from here ...


... This is where Antony' grandparents come from


The American media was repeating for three years that "Trump is a Russian asset", and someone said it was a "bad joke", to me however in the delusional Comedy that is the western empire is a really funny joke:

-Vladimir, are you a "russian asset"
-yes, Netanyahu, I am a "russian asset"
-and ... Donald, is a russian asset ?
-yes, Vladimir, Donald Trump is also a "Russian asset"

New evidence shows Saudi Arabia building ballistic missiles with China's help​

A CNN investigation found evidence of burn pits that point to the kingdom manufacturing its own ballistic weapons

New satellite imagery suggests that Saudi Arabia is producing ballistic missiles locally. The main evidence is that the facility is operating a “Burn Pit” to dispose of solid propellant remains from ballistic missile production