Red Sea / Houthi rebels situation

[Minusorange]

even more fuel for trump campaign

Sadly yes and Trump coming in now is worse than Joe staying, not that either of them are ideal choices

 

[Terminal_Boy]

HMS Diamond has been shooting down drones:

Red Sea: UK navy ship HMS Diamond shoots down Houthi drone

The Ministry of Defence says this is the third such incident involving HMS Diamond.

www.bbc.co.uk

BAe is loving the free field test of Sea Viper and is eagerly waiting the contract to supply more missiles.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Sadly yes and Trump coming in now is worse than Joe staying, not that either of them are ideal choices

General Mattis should be made Lord of War and get Iran calmed down.

 

[robfosters]

General Mattis should be made Lord of War and get Iran calmed down.

That’s the most badass job title I’ve ever seen

 

[Hagar]

Israel are good at hitting Iranian targets even when there is not a war on. Give them more weapons.

 

[Uther]

After the troop deaths just have to wait and see if America want to send some of their freedom to the area.

 

[SPG]

Team America **** yeah.

Need to watch that film again tbh

 

[Stu999]

Team America **** yeah.

Need to watch that film again tbh

You're breaking my balls, Hans Brix!!!

 

[bingham67]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1752006082971480369

Not good

 

[uber soldat]

How did you get outta Iraq? I-ran

 

[Grim5]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1751969625682702678

The few bad apples pushed by the head of the UN is BS. A WSJ journal investigation just published, has revealed 49% of UNRWA employees have family members in Hamas and 23% of employees are also Hamas members. Simply suspending funding won't fix the issue

 

[Lord-Jaffa]

BAe is loving the free field test of Sea Viper and is eagerly waiting the contract to supply more missiles.

£2 million to shoot down a 2k drone, great value for the taxpayer

 

[Stu999]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1752006082971480369

Not good

There wasn't any 'confusion', they weren't running the air defences while a friendly drone returned to base.

 

[Minusorange]

£2 million to shoot down a 2k drone, great value for the taxpayer

Paying tax on those Bae dividends though

 

[Terminal_Boy]

£2 million to shoot down a 2k drone, great value for the taxpayer

CIWS is much cheaper, but you have to let the Unknown Threat get much closer to you.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

After the troop deaths just have to wait and see if America want to send some of their freedom to the area.

The Ohio Class USS Florida, one of the so called “Four Horsemen of the Tomahawkocalypse” is in region.

Or air-drop excessive numbers of unsupervised Canadians and hope Geneva isn't watching.

 

[the wopster]

£2 million to shoot down a 2k drone, great value for the taxpayer

Worth every penny

 

[Nasher]

To stop them doing far more damage to ships or killing people it's worth it.

 

[Phreaky]

Shame Diamond hasn't had the Sea Ceptor upgrade yet, would be a much cheaper way to deal with this dross.

 

[a1ex2001]

CIWS is much cheaper, but you have to let the Unknown Threat get much closer to you.

It also isn’t an area defence weapon it is a point defence system designed to protect the ship carrying it and these drones are not targeting the warships in general and they chew through ammo incredibly quickly.

The real omission on our current ships is a deck gun with an AA capability our are only any use for support gunfire. The next generation are due to get a deck gun with an AA capability which is a cheap and effective way of taking out relatively slow moving drones at a decent range.