"Watch Houthis Show Off New Line of Home-Grown" Topic

… Surface-to-Air Missiles

"Yemen's Houthi militia have unveiled four new surface-to-air missile systems described as potential ‘game changers' in their half-decade-old war with the Saudi-led coalition, the pro-Houthi al-Masirah television channel has reported.

In a ceremony inaugurating the systems in Sana'a on Sunday, Houthi Supreme Political Council President Mahdi al-Mashat said the SAMs included the Fater-1 (‘Innovator-1'), and the Thaqib (‘Piercer') line including the Thaqib-1, Thaqib-2 and Thaqib-3…"
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It's been quite the show in Yemen. The Saudis and Emirates with all their high tech weapons, foreign mercenaries (including former head of Australian special forces, General Mike Hindmarsh), support from most of the Arab world (including air power) and overt US support (logistics, intelligence, aerial tanking) have been unable to smash a surrounded and badly supplied force in one of the poorest countries on the planet.

Instead the Houthis bomb Saudi cities with missiles and wipe out scores of Arab soldiers and mercenaries alike. And all the vaunted US and European tech has proved useless in the hands of incompetent armies.

It's like watching Fremen slaughter Harkonnen conscripts…

Houthi militia "SAMs"???

That is a hoot.

I suspect only their Iranian allies could out-do the "militia" in large-scale, home-grown, "bottle-rocket" technology.

Thanks for the laugh today. I needed it.

I'm not sure new and improved weapons systems is going to change anything. Just more targets; more death and destruction for everyone. Sad situation.

Like Vietnam and Afghanistan, the underdogs are winning. Never bet on Goliath against David.

Keep in mind that it is Houthi Militia + the majority of the former Yemeni armed forces including their SSM brigades and air force. While the Saudis did blow up the Yemeni Air Force on the ground, their stocks of AAMs survived and have been repurposed.

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Although we can't ID the type of missile was used to shoot down the Tornado, it's worth remembering that the Houthis have modified R-27T AAMs (air-to-air missiles) to be launched from pick-ups. The R-27 (AA-10 Alamo-B), is an IR-homing, missile with a maximum range of 63 km and a theoretical maximum allowed vertical separation of 10 km meters altitude. A modified R-27 was claimed to be responsible for the downing of a Saudi F-15 in 2018.
Noteworthy, along with the modified Vympel R-27T air-to-air missiles, the Houthi rebels are known to operate a supposedly indigenous air-defence system called the Fater-1, that uses components that according to Jane's Defense Weekly "appeared [when presented in Aug. 2019] to be identical to the 3M9 used with the 2K12 Kub/Kvadrat (SA-6 ‘Gainful') system.
Moreover rebels may have been delivered some Sayyad 2C Surface to Air Missiles from Iran.