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Telegraph: UK Navy lacks firepower to strike Houthis
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
The Russian take on this story from yesterday.
[Regnum] The UK Navy does not have enough power to strike targets of the rebel Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) in Yemen. The British newspaper The Telegraph wrote about this on January 27.

It is noted that British ships were unable to strike Houthi targets in Yemen. In view of this, the British army is forced to use aircraft for strikes, which have to fly 2.4 thousand km from the nearest base.

As retired British Rear Admiral Chris Parry noted, because of this, the British Navy is unable to compete with the Russian and Chinese navies, since in this case the difference in weapons is comparable to the difference between a knife and a pistol.
What he actually said was, “The point is you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, and at the moment we have the knives and they have the guns.”
As Regnum reported, on January 25, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said that fighters from the Ansar Allah movement launched a missile attack on a US warship in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. This happened as a result of a collision with a group of American destroyers.

US Central Command reported on January 20 that from November 19 to January 18, the Houthis attacked civilian ships in the Red Sea at least 31 times using anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones.

Ansar Allah is a rebel movement ruling northern Yemen that cooperates with Iran and the Hezbollah party from Lebanon. It began supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with attacks on civilian ships in the Red Sea after the Israeli army launched a ground operation in the Palestinian enclave.

Posted by: badanov 2024-01-29
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