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2025-03-08 Arabia

Houthi Weapons Arsenal Remains A Mystery To The U.S.

[TWZ] Despite 18 months of attacks by the Houthis, the U.S. does not have a clear idea of how many standoff weapons they possess or how they get all of them.

The U.S. remains puzzled about how many weapons the Houthis have or where they get them all, a senior U.S. defense official told The War Zone, adding that the militants are highly innovative when it comes to developing their arsenal. Meanwhile, numerous airstrikes by the U.S. and its allies on Houthi targets in Yemen have not halted the rebel group’s ability to produce the weapons and use them at will, the official said.

"There’s some debate as to what’s in their magazine," the official told The War Zone during a media engagement at the Air and Space Forces Association Air Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado. "There’s a good bit right now we don’t know about the Houthis."

The official spoke a day before the U.S. officially designated Ansar Allah — the official name of the Houthis — as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Posted by Frank G 2025-03-08 00:22|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11167 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 Let me just throw out a guess, yes I know, call me crazy, but I'll go with it anyway:

Iran!

Posted by Crusader 2025-03-08 01:35|| 2025-03-08 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 ...It's a mystery because we never looked, and if we did by some happenstance actually see something, it got memory holed PDQ.

Finding something would have meant doing something, and that sure as hell wasn't going to happen.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-03-08 01:59|| 2025-03-08 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 My guess is their arsenal is dependent on their port facilities, roads, bridges & airstrips. Blocking all those out would diminish, IMNSHO, their use of weapons against the rest of the world.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-03-08 05:03|| 2025-03-08 05:03|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ ...It's a mystery because we never looked, and if we did by some happenstance actually see something, it got memory holed PDQ.

Sometimes what you see is only what is desired. How can one sustain 'endless wars' without ammo ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-03-08 05:33|| 2025-03-08 05:33|| Front Page Top

#5 If we had a navy,
we could blockade the ports,
if we cared.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-08 06:36|| 2025-03-08 06:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Sourced from Ukraine or Afghanistan, paid for by US taxpayers

Posted by Regular joe 2025-03-08 14:04|| 2025-03-08 14:04|| Front Page Top

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