What Air Defenses Do the Houthis in Yemen Have?

Some people are just not too smart. How they got into leadership positions having responsibility for important things, dangerous materials, or even worse devices designed to kill, had nothing to do with brains. Scattered across the world in more places that would have never settled for that kind of thing in previous decades, although you do sometimes need to go back a good bit.

>Just damaging even a non-stealthy crewed U.S. military aircraft would be a major propaganda victory for the Yemeni militants.

Could be bittersweet if it's like poking a gorilla and leads to a scorched-earth policy eventually taking effect and escalating until Houthis have nothing left to fight for, or to fight anybody with. Regardless, their ability to disrupt shipping definitely needs to be completely neutralized at the soonest.

Plus if they fulfill their ambition to shoot down a B-2, how much of an idiot would you have to be?

Why would the bomber not be armed with a "little" nuclear ordnance "just in case"? This would then have to be detonated if it was on enemy territory if nothing else to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.

You can't be too careful with extremists.

Whether they are Americans or anti-Americans, I'm the first to admit that.

Some people are just not too smart.

I misread the domain and couldn't figure out "why the hell is TMZ trying to cover air defenses in Yemen?!?!"

It’s at least good practice for the Air Force/Navy to get some experience against some air defense as opposed to Afghanistan.

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