Kuffars can't beat Corsairs.

[AndersonsBiographer]

Yaaargh!

Muqawama! Muqawama! Muqawama!

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-stuck-red-sea-battle-cant-fight-houthis-forever-2024-6

• The US Navy has spent over six months battling the Houthis in the Red Sea.
• It's a resource-consuming conflict with no end in sight, raising questions about sustainability.
• Experts say the Houthis are managing to threaten shipping lanes despite the US Navy's efforts.

US naval forces have expended a significant amount of resources battling the Houthis since the fall.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, which consists of the aircraft carrier Ike and several other warships, has fired off more than 500 munitions during its deployment, and its aircraft have flown tens of thousands of hours, Navy officials have disclosed in recent weeks.

The spent munitions alone account for nearly $1 billion, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro revealed in mid-April, although that figure has certainly gone up in the two months since. This figure, by itself, underscores the growing financial drain of America's naval presence in the region, and it doesn't include the other costs that help sustain the operation.

Business Insider asked the Pentagon and US Central Command for the total cost of counter-Houthi operations but is yet to receive a response.

The US has relied on expensive missiles to destroy Houthi weapons that cost a fraction of the $2.1 million SM-2 interceptor, for instance, but experts say the Pentagon can sustain the increasing missile expenditures for what could be years. What's more of a concern for the US, they say, is sustaining the warships from which these munitions are being launched.

Incredible. Millions of dollars being spent every time literal tribal militia pop off at container ships with weapons that Bubba in Alabama could have built in his garage. How can one group be so based?

And the sudden departure of the USS Ike out of the combat zone still hasn't been completely explained. "The Houthis are about to learn why Americans don't have universal blubblubblubblub!"

 

[Lazaran]

Yaaargh!

Muqawama! Muqawama! Muqawama!

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-stuck-red-sea-battle-cant-fight-houthis-forever-2024-6




Incredible. Millions of dollars being spent every time literal tribal militia pop off at container ships with weapons that Bubba in Alabama could have built in his garage. How can one group be so based?

And the sudden departure of the USS Ike out of the combat zone still hasn't been completely explained. "The Houthis are about to learn why Americans don't have universal blubblubblubblub!"

https://apnews.com/article/uss-eisenhower-yemen-houthis-red-sea-5dc09566c116913ed316eff87f3eff82



And:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...kamaran-island-houthi-run-tv-says-2024-06-17/



Sucks to be Hou……..thi.



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