Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern...
by JumpCrisscross on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:29PM
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> can fire at the launch spot all you want, there's going to be no one and nothing of value there
This is blind counter-battery. You use the shot to place loiters. That then trains your fire.
Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern...
by sudosysgen on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:41PM
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They're not going to be returning to the firing spot. There's no point doing it. It's been tried, there isn't much to do short of an invasion.
Despite much media ado about destroying the launchers, those are typically just welded pipe or wooden catapults. There's no value in them and no point in ever coming back there.
Training and top level command is most likely not even in Yemen. You could hit the ports, that wouldn't stop the import of these missiles - they are shipped in small boats as a kit, assembled wherever, and then kept in a cave somewhere or in a car, ready to be fired. No port or infrastructure needed.
These tactics have been used since the 80s, and no solution short of a ground invasion can stop them. Israel couldn't even stop Hamas and the PIJ from firing guided rockets from Gaza - at the end of the day when the IDF bomb houses that rockets were fired from, it's just theater: they never store more than a dozen munitions, and by the time counter battery fire arrives, they've likely fired all munitions already. This is a tiny 2.4sqm strip fully blockaded, I don't see how you can stop it in Yemen.