Re <<Red Sea>>
the Houthis operate 2 Iranian surface-to-surface/ship rockets featuring DNAs from ancient Chinese rocketry from several thousand years ago and from 1980s
newsweek.com
Houthi Rebel Missiles in the Red Sea Have a Link to China ... Korolev traced the earliest predecessor of these missiles back to China's Red Flag 2A surface-to-air missile—exported to Iran in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War—and its modified B610 and B611 missiles ...
... and the rockets, in small numbers, are not particularly dangerous to warships deploying modicum of anti-air and close-in defence weaponry, but difficult to say when swarm-ed, or when either the warships are close to out of munitions, or if blinded by electronic warfare application.
Should the Houthis manage to get hands on some electronic warfare equipment or just more rockets, or better rockets, warships in and near the Red Sea are ... how do I put it politely ... toast. Seems only a question of time as both Iran and N Korea have good-enough EW equipment to enable one-time hit of any warship in that confined space. Then there be possible drone boats and loitering mines and torpedos.
In the meantime, whilst am unsure of what anti-air munitions Operation Prosperity Guardian is unloading on cheap but incessantly incoming rockets, am sure the operation is at the same time expensive and ineffective. In such a case, over time, Nato / G7 being demilitarised by denuding of land war weapons, and stripped of maritime war munitions, all the while losing Global South. Perhaps there is strategy behind the moves.
Agnostic, lets wait and see. |
