US and Britain to conduct airstrikes

[Red-Eye-Knight]

Story from the Daily Fail saying US and Britain to start a bombing campaign against Iranian back Houthi rebels.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... sters.html

[Nighthawke]

BBC news website carrying same story - and presumably other "more reliable" media outlets. If you can afford it, may I suggest Andrex or any soft toilet tissue rather than the "rag" you seem to be using

[Red-Eye-Knight]

You may but I won't listen and really as if the BBC are any better.

[jackjak92]

Started by what I am reading on Social Media

[Red-Eye-Knight]

Sky News reporting that President Biden and Rishi Sunak say US and UK have successfully hit targets in Yeman, They are also reporting that 4 Typhoons were involved in the operation.

[TonyO]

From MoD:

Four RAF Typhoon FGR4s, supported by a Voyager air refuelling tanker therefore used Paveway IV guided bombs to conduct precision strikes on two of these Houthi facilities. One was a site at Bani in north-western Yemen used to launch reconnaissance and attack drones. A number of buildings involved in drone operations were targeted by our aircraft.

The other location struck by our aircraft was the airfield at Abbs. Intelligence has shown that it has been used to launch both cruise missiles and drones over the Red Sea. Several key targets at the airfield were identified and prosecuted by our aircraft.

In planning the strikes, particular care was taken to minimise any risks to civilians, and any such risks were mitigated further by the decision to conduct the strikes during the night. The detailed results of the strikes are being assessed, but early indications are that the Houthis’ ability to threaten merchant shipping has taken a blow, and our commitment to protecting the sea-lanes, through which some 15% of the world’s shipping passes and which is vital to the global economy, has been amply demonstrated.

[Red-Eye-Knight]

Some video on sky news from the MOD showing the Typhoons and Voyager taking off and the Voyager returning to base.

[Bilvo]

BBC news website carrying same story - and presumably other "more reliable" media outlets. If you can afford it, may I suggest Andrex or any soft toilet tissue rather than the "rag" you seem to be using

Judging by the lack of knowledge and miss-information the BBC broadcast these days they are no better than the daily fail! Their journalism has dropped to the gutter.

[Bilvo]

You may but I won't listen and really as if the BBC are any better.

Spot on, the bbc are no better than the daily fail! Unfortunately there is a generation who think every thing the beeb broadcast is gospal.

[iainpeden]

In the usual quest for detailed information in this place, I assume we will soon have the serial numbers of the a/c involved, the batch numbers of the bombs and the inside leg measurements of the pilots.

Mildly surprised that the carrier wasn’t used as that was the whole rationale behind its purchase.

[Snoop 95]

In the usual quest for detailed information in this place, I assume we will soon have the serial numbers of the a/c involved, the batch numbers of the bombs and the inside leg measurements of the pilots.

Mildly surprised that the carrier wasn’t used as that was the whole rationale behind its purchase.

Getting a carrier anywhere near close enough in time would have been nigh-on impossible as they are both in Portsmouth now.

[benji1867]

Does anyone know what squadron is out in Akrotiri at the moment?

[Snoop 95]

Just been looking at Google Earth and Yemen is more than 1500 miles from Akrotiri which if they did it, would make a 3000mile round trip. Would they have done that? Maybe no alternative. Eldorado Canyon was a round trip of 5000 miles because of lack of overflight permissions, so there is precedent. Well done guys.

[TonyO]

Just been looking at Google Earth and Yemen is more than 1500 miles from Akrotiri which if they did it, would make a 3000mile round trip. Would they have done that? Maybe no alternative. Eldorado Canyon was a round trip of 5000 miles because of lack of overflight permissions, so there is precedent. Well done guys.

It's fairly easy with the Voyager, the only challenge is securing overflight rights from Egypt, and they weren't going to decline, they are losing millions of dollars a day because less shipping is using the Suez Canal.

[Col Nago]

With the exception of Iran and Hamas, the rest of the Middle East really don't like the Houthis one bit. Yemen has been at war with the Houthis for a decade now as well. So getting overflight access won't be an issue.

I note there have been a few Greyhound flights routing over Saudi Arabia today.

[Johnny]

I can’t find this out through google search but are lots of ships Isreal registered to avoid suiz passage tariffs as they may not have to pay ?

[TonyO]

Ships registered in Israel would still have to pay to use the Suez Canal, just like any other ship.

[raptor9]

Egypt is going to get seriously p....d off with these rebels. The Suez Canal is a huge source of revenue for the country, and if ships aren't using it, then it will cause large financial loss.

[iainpeden]

According to the papers, Lord Cameron had a lot of influence in the decision to launch the strikes. The same Cameron who scrapped the Harrier fleet just before he needed it for the anti Ghaddafi campaign and who left Libya as an ungovernable, splintered state which is now a conduit for a multitude of refugees who end up drowning in the Mediterranean.

[Red-Eye-Knight]

Just reported on BBC news from US sources that UK and US has taken part in more strikes against Houthi targets.