Houthis use drone SWARM to destroy Patriot Missile Battery?

via South Front.

On February 23, an unnamed Yemeni officer told the Yemeni al-Masirah TV that the Yemeni Air Force and the Missile Forces [both allied with the Houthis] had conducted a joint operation and destroyed a MIM-104 Patriot PAC-3 air defense system and a headquarter of the UAE Army in the central Yemeni province of Ma’rib.

According to al-Masirah, Yemeni forces attacked the UAE Army Patriot PAC-3 system with “a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs],” while the UAE Army headquarter was targeted with several ballistic missiles launched by the Yemeni Missile Forces.

The Saudi-led coalition immediately announced that its air defenses in Yemen had intercepted two ballistic missiles, which had been launched by the Houthis over the center of Ma’rib province. However, the collation didn’t report shooting down any UAVs of the Houthis.

Story and vid here. 

We're back to the future.

These drone "swarms" are nothing but massed cruise missile attacks...just lower cost, slower speed, less powerful individually but many more of them....defense against small drones is gonna be tough.

I'm not talking about those that will be packed by infantry.

I'm talking about those that are dropped out the back of C-130 type aircraft that number in the thousands that each carry a grenade sized payload.

How do you keep 2,000 mini drones from wrecking your forward air field and obliterating your 150M dollar F-35B, much less the fuel/munitions depot and personnel?

Marine Rotational Force Europe 17.2 doing skid pad training in Norway w/Viking Amphibious All-Terrain Vehicle (BvS10)...vid by Cpl. Raul Torres

Viking Drift ❄️ U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force Europe 17.2 participate in skid pan training in Bardufoss, Norway. Try this move in a Viking Amphibious All-Terrain Vehicle (BvS10). @Marines 📹: Cpl. Raul Torres

A post shared by U.S. Dept. of Defense (@deptofdefense) on Feb 25, 2018 at 5:33am PST

1st LAR Scout @ Phu Lamyai, Kingdom of Thailand....pic by Staff Sgt. Eastham

Open Comment Post. Feb 25, 2018

In Louisiana we have highways masquerading as tank trails, in Michigan they have potholes acting like sinkholes!

Read the story here!

The pic is from Jalopnick, an automotive mag, and they've been having a field day with the potholes in Michigan.  In Detroit they have ongoing coverage of drivers literally blowing out their tires and busting wheels on a pothole. The local media has even gone out to film it.

But what you see above is an ABSOLUTE danger to life and limb. That law enforcement bubba is six three so that hole must be at least a couple of feet deep.

You're driving along and hit something like that?

Your car will literally flip end over end (if you're going fast enough) and if not then you will be kissing your air bag, hoping you haven't broken your nose or worse.

A couple of weeks ago I was gonna blog about a trip I had to make from Central Louisiana down to Baton Rouge.  I took I-49 down but on the way back I decided to take the scenic route and go on Hwy 71.

About 5 miles outside a hamlet called LeBeau I ran into the worse road I've ever seen.  It looked like a tank trail and the top speed of everyone (to include big rigs) was 25mph. 

The road was so bad that even that was iffy.

Trump's instincts are right.  We need to do something about our infrastructure nationwide.  Enough with the foreign wars.  If he's serious about making America great then he should SLAM thru his bill to rebuild America!

You want a consensus position on stopping mass shooting? Deal with the mentally ill!

Told you this was a die in the ditch issue and I'll pound this drum till my arms fall off.

Want to know what the American people think will solve the mass shooting problem?  It's to deal with the mentally ill.  Am I saying round them all up?  No. I am saying that when a person starts making declarations to harm himself or others that its time that shit is taken seriously.

Want to know the other dirty secret?  Polls have CONTINUOUSLY reflected this.  You might have some CLOWNS in California or New York that want to subject the rest of the nation to their misery but we're not falling for that. Which is why they're attempting to NATIONALIZE the debate instead of going state by state.  If they try a local movement they lose everytime, so they must IMPOSE this on the nation!

Check out this poll...

If you go inside the numbers you'll see the following.  Vast majority of both democrats and Republicans think that mental health screening could have prevented this tragedy.  Independents too.

Stricter gun laws?  A majority of dems supported tougher laws while the vast majority of Republicans DID NOT!.

Let that sink in.

The dems own both coasts.  The Republicans the center of the country.

Now think about where the most "intense" gun control laws currently are and compare that to the free states.

Yeah.

The slave states want to impose their rule over those that are free.

This isn't about safety this is about control!

USMC chest thumps about the CH-53K lifting a JLTV...

Last month, the latest technology in the Corps came together — making history. . The CH-53K King Stallion demonstrated it’s heavy-lift capability, lifting a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle for the first time. . #MarineCorps #Marines #Technology #Innovation #CH53K #Helicopter #JLTV #USMC #New #OohRah #KingStallion

A post shared by United States Marine Corps (@marines) on Feb 24, 2018 at 4:52am PST

I can kinda understand the chest thumping.  The JLTV was gonna be problematic with the "aviation centric" Corps.

I don't know if the CH-53K demonstrating the ability to lift it equals supplying outlying squads with fuel, ammo, food etc...but it might be doable now.

We'll see if the plan is the right one or if they change direction.

The local PD stood up while the Sheriff's Dept hid at the Florida shooting...

Interesting isn't it.

A systemic failure of the govt with only the Coral Springs PD actually doing the right thing and the solution by the gun grabbers is to ban Modern Sporting Rifles instead of dealing affirmatively with the criminally insane.

You want to solve the problem of mass shootings?

Deal with the insane in our society.  Inclusion was the reason why we stopped putting them in mental health wards and now we're reaping the whirlwind of that decision.

Solve that problem and you've solved it all.

China PLA Marines Promo ... They're GREAT at the propaganda stuff...

Wow.

What did I see?  Highly motivated, physically fit, skilled...nothing but combat glides, alot of undersea work (what were they delivering that looked like a WW2 Fat Man Bomb?), lots of armor, lots of HRST work, lots of professionalism.

This is old skool appeal to young men type propaganda.

I'm a Westerner and I found it appealing (and I want them to die a bloody death at the hands of our life takers/heartbreakers) I can only imagine what a Chinese patriot is thinking.

Funny.

If we can get the public switched on, China might be our saviors.  If we can get the public to see that China is a mortal threat, that might be the thing that brings us all together instead of focusing on triviality and the rest of the insanity that everyone gyrates to.

Sat pic of SU-57 in Syria