The War in Yemen News Updates, Yemeni Army Destroy Another Saudi Warship & Down Saudi Drone

So war in Yemen is getting more dangerous as drones are being shot down and ships are being sunk. I think its the third ship sunk by the Yemen army, they claim to have downed drones too. This thread is to keep track of the war in Yemen, and post updates on the developments.
So if you have Yemen war information please post it so we can keep track of whats happening in this middle eastern country.

www.israelnationalnews.com...
The Iranians has developed a highly sophisticated domestically built anti-ship missile system named Noor reverse-engineered off of an original Chinese C-803 design.

The current Iranian anti-ship missile has a range of about 200 kilometers, so the anti-ship missile could be fired well into the interior of Yemen and still control the el-Mandeb Strait that is only about 30 kilometers. In 2006, Hezbollah successfully hit the INS Hanit, an Israeli warship, with an earlier version of the Iran/Chinese anti-ship missile.


If these anti-ship missiles have been smuggled into Yemen to the Houthis, this would present the Saudi-led coalition naval forces with a catastrophic game-changing threat as they try to maintain their naval blockade of the Houthis on the West Yemen coast.

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The Yemen army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has destroyed a Saudi warship in the waters close to the southwestern province of Ta’izz.

According to local media reports on Sunday, the Yemeni forces targeted the vessel, which had regularly been shelling Yemeni coastal villages, with rockets.

Reports said that the warship was set ablaze due to the Yemeni rocket attacks and sank.

Yemeni Army Destroy Another Saudi Warship
www.almanar.com.lb...
The Yemeni army and the popular committees destroyed on Sunday a Saudi warship, the third vessel sinking in Yemen's offshore waters in one month.

The Saudi warship was targeted by a rocket as it was in the waters close to the southwestern province of Taiz, Yemeni media quoted field sources as saying.

The warship had regularly been shelling Yemeni coastal villages, with rockets.

Saudi warshipThe local media noted that the vessel sand after it was set ablaze due to the Yemeni rocket.

It is the third Saudi warship to be targeted by the army and the committees this month.

Yemeni Army Down Saudi Drone in Taiz
www.almanar.com.lb...
The Yemeni army and the popular committees downed on Saturday a Saudi drone in the southwestern province of Taiz.

Yemeni media quoted field sources as saying that the drone was shot down in al-Dim area in Jabal al-Saber (al-Saber Height).

Yemeni army downs Saudi droneIt’s not the first time that the Yemeni army and the committees shoot down a Saudi unmanned aerial vehicle. The allied forces downed on October 22 a Saudi drone in the Jabal Aswadin Taiz

a reply to: FormOfTheLord

Thanks for starting the thread . This Yemen war was and still is a surprise for me . I understand the strategic location and what it could mean in the future but ,I have to question the Saudi's real reason . It's not like a war they can win and will only end up costing them more and more ...I think someone must have whispered in their ear some BS that got them all paranoid . any how I just wanted to mark the thread and say thanks ....peace

This warship sinking is nonsense. Anything the Saudis would be using to shell a village would be far out of range of anything shore based. And even the Saudi's smallest ships like patrol boats have Phalanx anti missile systems. And the lack of details as to what type of ship, the name of the ship and type of weapon used makes the entire thing sound like nothing more than wishful propaganda. The Saudis only have so many ships it would not be hard to figure out if 3 were missing.

I googled the info and other websites are reporting the same thing, that a ship was sunk by some Iranian missle tech.. . . .
Looks legit to me. . . .

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The Yemen army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has destroyed a Saudi warship in the waters close to the southwestern province of Ta’izz.

According to local media reports on Sunday, the Yemeni forces targeted the vessel, which had regularly been shelling Yemeni coastal villages, with rockets.

Reports said that the warship was set ablaze due to the Yemeni rocket attacks and sank.

After the incident, Saudi warplanes and naval vessels several times bombarded the coastal area in the district of Mukha in the province.

Saudi warplanes also bombarded other provinces in the impoverished Arab country. In one of the airstrikes on the Yemeni province of Sana’a, at least four civilians, including three children, were killed. The Saudi fighter jets also bombarded a foodstuff factory in the province.

Iran Claims Houthis Destroy Saudi or Egyptian Warship Off Yemen

If true, claim suggests pro-Iranian rebels in Yemen have their hands on sophisticated anti-ship missiles, presenting a game-changing threat.
The Iranians has developed a highly sophisticated domestically built anti-ship missile system named Noor reverse-engineered off of an original Chinese C-803 design.

The current Iranian anti-ship missile has a range of about 200 kilometers, so the anti-ship missile could be fired well into the interior of Yemen and still control the el-Mandeb Strait that is only about 30 kilometers. In 2006, Hezbollah successfully hit the INS Hanit, an Israeli warship, with an earlier version of the Iran/Chinese anti-ship missile.


If these anti-ship missiles have been smuggled into Yemen to the Houthis, this would present the Saudi-led coalition naval forces with a catastrophic game-changing threat as they try to maintain their naval blockade of the Houthis on the West Yemen coast.


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I will also thank for the thread. Looking forward to more info on this subject. I honestly thought the conflict there was well...... out of this world i guess to say

a reply to: FormOfTheLord

This is a link you can check from time to time . It has nothing recent but they do post on Yemen atimes.com...

I dunno if its legit or not but Yemenis are saying they sunk the ship, and are claiming this was the third one. . . . I didnt even know one had been sunk, but am seeing reports of ships being sunk earlier this month. Maybe this is why the US is selling the Saudis ships. . . .

Found this on liveleak of the supposed targeting of a ship then firing missles by nite:
www.liveleak.com...
Video targeting Saudi warship off the Yemeni coast after the monitoring process by houthis



www.veteranstoday.com...
Yemen’s army, backed by allied popular committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has destroyed a second Saudi warship in a missile attack in the southeast of the impoverished Arab country.

From Sputnik site:
“Parts of the Yemeni Army launched a missile in the direction of one of the warships, from which the port of Mocha was shelled. The target was precisely struck and sunk,” the source said.
sputniknews.com...

a reply to: FormOfTheLord

press TV is an Iranian website of course they will spread lies , Iran supplied the Houthies with billions of dollars worth of weapons , i mean you can watch on you tube how many times the allies were bombarding too many mountains which had caves full of weapons .

a reply to: FormOfTheLord

That picture is the USNS Kilauea during a SINKEX in 2012. It was sunk by an Australian submarine during the 2012 RIMPAC exercises. The Concord, Kilauea, and Niagara Falls were all sunk that year.

www.dailymail.co.uk...

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: FormOfTheLord

That picture is the USNS Kilauea during a SINKEX in 2012. It was sunk by an Australian submarine during the 2012 RIMPAC exercises. The Concord, Kilauea, and Niagara Falls were all sunk that year.

www.dailymail.co.uk...

Nice catch I deleted the pic, I was wondering why in the video the missles were fired at night, yet in the pic it looked like a photoshoot in broad daylight not something out of war at all.

Yemen army? I thought the saudis were fighting houthi rebels and propping up the yemen goverment. Did something change?

a reply to: DeusImperator
Just the spin...


a reply to: FormOfTheLord

They are not the Yemen Army. They are rebels supported by Iran.

We know this because the UN Security Council placed arms embargo's on the Iranian backed groups. The resolution passed with Russia abstaining.

UNSCR 2216

Just spotted this "800 Colombian Soldiers to Join Saudi-Led Forces in Yemen"

This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address:
"http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/800-Colombian-Soldiers-to-Join-Saudi-Led-Forces-in-Yemen-20151025-0034.html". If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english

Hundreds of former Colombian nationals are fighting alongside Saudi Arabian-led forces in Yemen, according to reports Sunday.

The troops include former Colombian soldiers fighting under contract with Saudi Arabia. According to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, the first group of just under 100 Colombian troops arrived in Yemen earlier this month. The newspaper has reported the troops were set to arrive in the southern port city of Aden, which is currently under the control of Saudi Arabia and forced allied with Yemen's ousted president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

As many as 800 Colombian fighters could take up frontline positions under Saudi command, according to the newspaper. In recent days unconfirmed reports have surfaced the number of Colombians in Yemen may have already reached that number.

The news comes as Colombia’s government advances in peace accords with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas to end the country five-decade old conflict.

www.telesurtv.net...

a reply to: the2ofusr1

Ahh so the saudis are getting mercenaries huh? ANd yeah anyone with half a brain knows to not sit INSIDE A ANTI SHIP MISSILES RANGE or risk getting a one way trip to davy jones locker. ALso the CIWS ha s been updated to combat the NOOR after the RIMPAC they held years ago. the Searams as well.

I think this i smore Iranian press tv BS.

Whats the range of anti ship missles anyway? If they have lost three ships they must be in a world of hurt. . . .

I know there was a naval blockade against Yemen, maybe the ships were sunk. . .. . .

I wonder if the naval blockade is still there?

a reply to: FormOfTheLord

It says 200km in the article.

a reply to: yuppa

telesur is a south american news source .....like with all sources "salt"

originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Whats the range of anti ship missles anyway? If they have lost three ships they must be in a world of hurt. . . .

I know there was a naval blockade against Yemen, maybe the ships were sunk. . .. . .

I wonder if the naval blockade is still there?

A SHIP is a relative term. ANd i cant find any verification o f this outside of known assosiates of RT,and th eother propagandist news agencies there.

Where is the pictures of the sinking? The pic i saw was not in the persian gulf.

a reply to: FormOfTheLord

I deplore the deaths and suffering on both sides.

However, there is something distinctly satisfying when a bully gets a bloody nose from it's victim.

Pick on one of, if not the poorest nation in the region..result? Yemen is proving to be not quite the walkover Saudi imagined they would be.

All of those billions spent on arms from the West and Israel over the decades...and Saudi cannot even put down the poorest country?

Money well spent?

a reply to: yuppa

ANd i cant find any verification o f this outside of known assosiates of RT

Proves RT go the extra mile for the facts.

They'll go where other agencies fear to tread it seems.