Yemen/ Mar Vermelho

[Túlio]

Birutagem, um NIMITZ fazendo uma curva tão fechada que desguia um F-18 no pouso e ainda derruba um marinheiro com carrinho e tudo no oceano? O capitão (muié BTW) deve ter uma Ferrari em casa...

[prp]

Provavelmente era o único que não estava ancorado.

[Goldfinger]

Só porque é grande não quer dizer que não consegue fazer curvas fechadas.

O F-18 estava sendo rebocado dentro do hangar, provavelmente sendo levado para ou sendo retirado de um dos elevadores. O marinheiro (não era piloto) que ficou ferido estava no cockpit do caça, procedimento normal quando aeronave está sendo rebocada.


Análise interessante de um ex-RIO de F-14, aliás o canal dele vale muito a pena seguir.

PS: Esse é o capitão do USS Harry S. Truman

https://www.airlant.usff.navy.mil/Organ ... g-Officer/

[FOXTROT]

Os Houtis acertaram um míssil nesse domingo, 10:00 AM local no aeroporto Ben Gurion, aonde teoricamente a AD de Israel e dos EUA deveria estar ativa, sequer foram relatadas tentativas de interceptação.
45 dias de ataques não forçaram os Houtis a rendição, muito menos impediram o grupo de prosseguir seus ataques.

Saudações

[J.Ricardo]

esse tipo de inimigo não se vence com ataque aéreo, o Afeganistão já mostrou isso, ou invadem por terra e entram em outra arapuca ou terraplanam com bombas nucleares, o que nunca vai acontecer.

[Suetham]

PS: Esse é o capitão do USS Harry S. Truman

https://www.airlant.usff.navy.mil/Organ ... g-Officer/

Esse cara no Twitter (https://x.com/chowdahhill) é uma pérola. Enquanto isso:

[Suetham]

https://www.twz.com/air/stormbreaker-ad ... ely-intact
StormBreaker Advanced Glide Bomb Lands In Yemen Largely Intact

The cutting-edge StormBreaker was only recently confirmed as being used in combat and could be of major intelligence value to an adversary.

In April, the United States conducted at least 635 airstrikes in Yemen (the timelapse depicts only 219), based on ISW open-source tracking data.

The United States has conducted at least 973 airstrikes since March 15, when President Donald Trump first ordered airstrikes in Yemen.

De acordo com o ISW, os Estados Unidos realizaram pelo menos 635 ataques aéreos contra o Iêmen durante o mês de abril e cerca de 973 ataques aéreos desde 15 de março. Isso equivale a cerca de 20 ataques aéreos por dia, considerando a média de 973 ataques aéreos ao longo dos 47 dias desde o início da campanha aérea. O que impressiona nessa campanha é que eles ainda não conseguiram conquistar a superioridade aérea sobre o Iêmen.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/poli ... index.html

Houthis’ successful targeting of US drones is hampering Trump’s mission to kill group’s senior leadership

In the month since the US launched a major military campaign targeting the Houthi rebel group in Yemen, the militants have successfully shot down at least seven multi-million-dollar American drones, hindering the US’ ability to move into “phase two” of the operation, multiple US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

The US was hoping to achieve air superiority over Yemen within 30 days, officials said and degrade Houthi air defense systems enough to begin a new phase focusing on ramping up intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance of senior Houthi leaders in order to target and kill them, the officials said.

But the platforms best suited to conduct that persistent effort, the MQ9 Reaper drones, keep getting shot down, the officials explained. In fact, the Houthis are only getting better at targeting them, the officials said. The US does not have boots on the ground in Yemen, so it relies on overhead surveillance — much of it from the MQ9s—to conduct battlefield damage assessments and track terrorists.

Over the last six weeks, the Houthis have launched 77 one-way attack drones, 30 cruise missiles, 24 medium-range ballistic missiles, and 23 surface-to-air missiles either at US forces, into the Red Sea, or at Israel, two of the officials said.

The intelligence community has also assessed in recent days that over nearly six weeks of US bombing, the Houthis’ ability and intent to keep lobbing missiles at US and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and at Israel is little changed, as is their command-and-control structure, according to two other people familiar with the intelligence. These assessments were largely based on signals intelligence, one of the people said.

The large-scale operation has also rattled some officials at US Indo-Pacific Command, who CNN has reported had complained in recent weeks about the large number of long-range weapons being expended by CENTCOM that would be critical in the event of a war with China.

“We have to maintain a high state of indications and warning so we can get those forces back if there is a crisis with greater exigence than there is one in the CENTCOM (area of responsibility),” US Indo-Pacific Command Commander Adm. Sam Paparo told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month, after an entire Patriot air defense battalion was moved from the Pacific to US Central Command.

“And I owe the secretary and the president constant vigilance on this,” he added, “and a constant awareness of that force’s ability – which is assigned to INDOPACOM, the Carl Vinson Strike Group and a Patriot battalion – if need be that they return to the INDOPACOM theater for a higher priority threat.”

Eles disparam HARM, Stormbreaker, JSOW, JASSM, Tomahawk... e tudo isso ainda não impediu os houthis de contestarem a vantagem aérea da coalizão ocidental.





Eu imagino para uma campanha aérea contra o Irã, se o Iêmen serviu como lição, as coisas não serão tão fáceis quanto muitos imaginam.

[Suetham]

[Suetham]