Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing
Early on April 23, the Houthis (as Ansar Allah is known) carried out a drone attack on targets in the southern Saudi provinces of Jizan and ‘Asir.
The Yemeni group targeted a facility of Saudi oil giant Aramco in an unspecified part of Jizan with a Samad-3 suicide drone. At the same time, the group targeted King Khalid Air Base in ‘Asir with two Qasef-2K drones.
Later in the morning, a third Qasef-2K drones was launched by the Houthis at a “military installation” in King Khalid Air Base as a part of a second, smaller attack.
The Samad-3 has a range of more than 1,500 km, while the range of the Qasef-2K is around 150 km only. Both drones are usually armed with high-explosive fragmentation, HE-FRAG, warheads.
“This targeting comes in response to the ongoing aggression and blockade of our dear country,” Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Houthis, said in a statement.
The Saudi-led coalition claimed that all three drones launched in the early morning were successfully intercepted. The coalition didn’t comment on the second attack on King Khalid Air Base.
The Houthis launched dozens of suicide drones at civilian and military targets in Saudi Arabia in the last few weeks. Many of the drones were intercepted by the Saudi-led coalition. Yet, a number of attacks were successful.
These attacks are meant to pressure Saudi Arabia to end its war on Yemen. The Kingdom is yet to step back and endorse a political solution, despite the high cost of the war.
Meanwhile, oil permanently travels over 60 $, if the pedo-Saudis had invested on functioning electronic war systems would not be in such serious difficulties, but the problem for them is that in the West are illiterate about the electronic war, there is no way of escape for Wahabi, in these times.
aramco facilities the best target since that’s where the crude/money transfer takes place (custody of oil transferred to buyer on loading and thus the money being earned and payable after 30 days). no oil out no cash in. ras tanua, yanbu, rabigh bay and such like places are excellent targets, particularly if the drones are heavy with incendiary bombs.
Ansar Allah swept south around the dam to start taking buildings on the outskirts of Marib City. In the north:
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1385555318298533888
This is a two-way street: https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1385971252045787144