UK Royal Navy vessels are unable to attack Houthi positions in Yemen because they lack the necessary missiles, it has been revealed π
UK Royal Navy vessels are unable to attack Houthi positions in Yemen because they lack the necessary missiles, it has been revealed π
I wonder if any of those missles dissapeared in ukraine
It's even funnier thing actually, RN ships don't have ASuW missiles because they did had murican Harpoons, but they were retired in 2018 due to being obsolete. With no replacement, they are promising it for 2028 (unlikely) so currently RN ship wanting to shot enemy ship must close to the gun range. They did bought some Norwegian ASuW system recently but it's only been fit to few ships at most and was not tested, it's also a short range system.
Some harpoon missiles retired from RN most likely did arrived in Ukraine, where they had so huge success as using two to hit a tugboat.
I find it funny that unofficial armies (guerrillas?) are able to go toe to toe with state militaries, holding their own incredibly well, while said state militaries struggle so much. Why is that?
New technology is shifting the balance of power. Stuff like drones didn't exist until fairly recently, and western military doctrine doesn't account for them. Drones are very cheap to produce, costing mere thousands of dollars, and they're difficult to intercept. This piece of technology pretty much invalidates the whole US air defence strategy. It's simply not cost effective to use million dollar missiles to intercept cheap drones.
Because you can shoot down a helicopter but you canβt shoot down an idea
Have these cowards never heard of ramming?
Sorry global shipping, we gave all of our missiles to Ukraine so we could stop the imminent Russian advance of 23km^2
What kind of missiles do they have then?? Blanks?
Quite possibly, missiles do have a shelf life and theirs might not be functional at this point or even worse could be unsafe to use as they could blow up prematurely.
Economic collapse of US military when?