My point was that your summary title did not accurately represent what was happening. A more accurate title might have been "Houthi's blocking naval access to Israel and allies via the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden".
Well, it is not MY title. According to the user-sggestions when one joining this board, it is the title used by the content creator.
And if you bothered to watch the vid, you would find out that it is not just the Red Sea and the Gulf of ADen (which is not blocked currently to non Israeli, US or UK ships). The point is that Houthis have increased their range - ALL THE WAY to traffic coming around the Cape of Good Hope, ... In the Indian Ocean.
It's sensational regardless who came up with the title.
And no, the Houthi's not have anti-ship missiles with a 3,000+ mile range. Nobody is known to have anti-ship missiles with anywhere close to this range. The US Navy can't even reach out 1,000 nautical miles Depending what Iran has given them they may have surface to surface missiles which can reach that far.
Have a look a shipping routes on a map. Yemen does not need a 3000 mile range to hit a ship in the Indian Ocean. Anyway, I made no claims about 3000 miles, you did.
I believe the term was Long Range Hypersonic Missile (LRHM), they do not worry so much about anti-ship terminology these days. Current state-of-the-art LRHM is accurate, using AI at the last burst, so the missile 'sees' the target, and it is now a once-and-done type deal - meaning that only one missile is needed, (not multiple) to hit a target. Russia has proved such a strategy in the Ukraine thingie. They even got TWO patriots with ONE missile recently.
However, we are talking about Yemen. Do not underestimate Yemenis. Even in the 70s, Saudi and Qatari oil fields preferred Yemeni workers because they had a proper IQ, unlike their own populations. This, I know from experience - i.e. Shell employees discussing the merits of oil-workers.
I do not care about what the USA has achieved or is attempting to achieve, they are literally a generation behind Iran and Russia at this point, perhaps even China and North Korea.
Your claim was the Houthi's can hit the Cape of Good Hope. Guess how far that is from Yemen. More than 3,000 miles away, so yes, your did effectively claim that. If they can't hit ships 3,000 miles away then they can't hit anything near the Cape of Good Hope.
They also aren't threatening vast parts of the Indian Ocean. Go look at how much trade goes around the horn of Africa to Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, etc. Their anti-ship missiles don't reach those routes either. Go take a look at how much ship traffic that actually is:
I'm not underestimating Yemen. I advocate non-intervention. Had we never gotten involved with the Shah, invaded Iraq, armed Afghanistan against the Russians, then invaded it too, and not put troops there maybe the region wouldn't be as messed up and hostile.
My point was that your summary title did not accurately represent what was happening. A more accurate title might have been "Houthi's blocking naval access to Israel and allies via the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden".
Well, it is not MY title. According to the user-sggestions when one joining this board, it is the title used by the content creator.
And if you bothered to watch the vid, you would find out that it is not just the Red Sea and the Gulf of ADen (which is not blocked currently to non Israeli, US or UK ships). The point is that Houthis have increased their range - ALL THE WAY to traffic coming around the Cape of Good Hope, ... In the Indian Ocean.
It's sensational regardless who came up with the title.
And no, the Houthi's not have anti-ship missiles with a 3,000+ mile range. Nobody is known to have anti-ship missiles with anywhere close to this range. The US Navy can't even reach out 1,000 nautical miles Depending what Iran has given them they may have surface to surface missiles which can reach that far.
Have a look a shipping routes on a map. Yemen does not need a 3000 mile range to hit a ship in the Indian Ocean. Anyway, I made no claims about 3000 miles, you did.
I believe the term was Long Range Hypersonic Missile (LRHM), they do not worry so much about anti-ship terminology these days. Current state-of-the-art LRHM is accurate, using AI at the last burst, so the missile 'sees' the target, and it is now a once-and-done type deal - meaning that only one missile is needed, (not multiple) to hit a target. Russia has proved such a strategy in the Ukraine thingie. They even got TWO patriots with ONE missile recently.
However, we are talking about Yemen. Do not underestimate Yemenis. Even in the 70s, Saudi and Qatari oil fields preferred Yemeni workers because they had a proper IQ, unlike their own populations. This, I know from experience - i.e. Shell employees discussing the merits of oil-workers.
I do not care about what the USA has achieved or is attempting to achieve, they are literally a generation behind Iran and Russia at this point, perhaps even China and North Korea.
Your claim was the Houthi's can hit the Cape of Good Hope. Guess how far that is from Yemen. More than 3,000 miles away, so yes, your did effectively claim that. If they can't hit ships 3,000 miles away then they can't hit anything near the Cape of Good Hope.
They also aren't threatening vast parts of the Indian Ocean. Go look at how much trade goes around the horn of Africa to Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, etc. Their anti-ship missiles don't reach those routes either. Go take a look at how much ship traffic that actually is:
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/25/11503152/shipping-routes-map
I'm not underestimating Yemen. I advocate non-intervention. Had we never gotten involved with the Shah, invaded Iraq, armed Afghanistan against the Russians, then invaded it too, and not put troops there maybe the region wouldn't be as messed up and hostile.