According to the US Department of Defense’s top arms buyer, the Yemeni group possesses missiles capable of “doing simply amazing things.”
Fuente: https://actualidad.rt.com
The magnitude of the arsenal of weapons that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have at their disposal is unexpected news for the Pentagon, Axios reported this Friday. The main buyer of weapons for the US Department of Defense, Bill LaPlantehighlighted that the group acquires increasingly sophisticated weapons and has missiles that «They can do simply amazing things.«.
“I am an engineer and physicist, and I have worked in the missile field throughout my career,” explained the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. «What I have seen of what the Houthis have done in the last six months is something that astounds me.«, he acknowledged.
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The Houthis claimed on Tuesday to have carried out two operations aimed at attacking US ships. The first was perpetrated against The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea using various missiles and drones.
The second aimed two American destroyers in the Red Seawhich were attacked with a series of ballistic missiles and drones. The group stated that the operations lasted eight hours and “they successfully achieved their goals«.
The Houthis have repeatedly stated that “will continue to carry out military operations against the Israeli enemy until the aggression ceases and the siege of the Gaza Strip is lifted, as well as the aggression against Lebanon.”
