LoooSeR Posted September 5, 2015 Report Share Posted September 5, 2015 Saudi Arabia officialy reported about 10 SA soldiers killed in Marib missile strike. Unrelated - this is one of the leader of anti-Houthi/pro-Saudi forces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Rumored to be from Yemen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 So i hear information that those are Qatar troops in Saudi Arabia, moving to Yemen. https://mobile.twitter.com/Militaryaffair7/status/640403479115141120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Tangental, but more reasons for loathing rich gulf states: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/refugees-migrant-crisis-arab-countries/404203/ More loathing, directed in this case to one of the prime causes of the crisis: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-refugee-crisis-made-in-america/ Thanks Obama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 SA attack on column of armed people (i guess those are Houthis). Yes, Houthis, title translation of the video is "The Saudi Apache rains gunfire and missiles on the Houthis" It's captured, right? At least that's what the text says. This is pretty bad.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 What is bad? I don't think Houthis have capabilities to run M1A2S tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 What is bad? I don't think Houthis have capabilities to run M1A2S tank. If they can use it, it would help them a lot against the Saudis/UAE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 If they can use it, it would help them a lot against the Saudis/UAE. That's a bad thing? Just on a for-kicks level*: I'm all for the Houthis rolling Saudia Arabia and installing itself in the manner befitting any pastoral society conquering a fat, degenerate civilization of that sort. Hell, thanks to American shale oil I wouldn't even pay more at the tank for it. And certainly the new rulers couldn't even begin to be as loathsome as the old ones without actually becoming Nazis. Let's hope that these farm boys can swing a spanner well enough to keep that tank going. * IE: after having shut down the part of my brain which has empathy for the suffering of all things. And the other part which knows from experience that toppled middle eastern nations = no good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 That's a bad thing? Just on a for-kicks level*: I'm all for the Houthis rolling Saudia Arabia and installing itself in the manner befitting any pastoral society conquering a fat, degenerate civilization of that sort. Hell, thanks to American shale oil I wouldn't even pay more at the tank for it. And certainly the new rulers couldn't even begin to be as loathsome as the old ones without actually becoming Nazis. Let's hope that these farm boys can swing a spanner well enough to keep that tank going. * IE: after having shut down the part of my brain which has empathy for the suffering of all things. And the other part which knows from experience that toppled middle eastern nations = no good thing. Well, bad for the Saudis. Though they and the UAE forces have shown incompetence at using fighting vehicles so far. I wonder how are the Leclercs doing. [if they're even being used] We'll see how it goes, though keep in mind only a few Middle East/African countries recovered from big movements like these. I don't think Yemen will be any different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 The whole of the Middle East seems to have been in slow freefall since Iraq 2 (electric boogaloo). It doesn't help that the standard approach from the international community whenever things spill over to a new country is "hey, we don't really like whoever is in charge anyway. I know, let's bomb them and support Al Qaeda the plucky rebels!" After a while it begins to seem like a deliberate strategy to fuck up the middle east completely for the next few generations. As for Africa, I will note that the same dynamic gave us Libya and Somalia. Not seeing too much of the same trend for the rest of the continent, however. Mohamed A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 UAE forces in Yemen, some Leclercs on a video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 -1 M1A2S http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=276&v=PN6W_pFq7AA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Welp. Time for the Military - oops - American Heroes Channel to redo their Top Ten tanks list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Welp. Time for the Military - oops - American Heroes Channel to redo their Top Ten tanks list. UAE T-80s and BMP-3s also exploded nicely when used improperly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 UAE T-80s and BMP-3s also exploded nicely when used improperly. T-80s in UAE? I saw only Leclercs in Yemen. BMP-3 was destroyed by AT landmine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 T-80s in UAE? I saw only Leclercs in Yemen. BMP-3 was destroyed by AT landmine. There was a picture of a destroyed tank that looked a lot like a T-80 in Yemen. I'll try to find it again. I found it very strange because I didn't think UAE bought T-80s. For the BMP-3, there was also an incident when an ATGM crew managed to ambush a BMP-3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Those T-80BVs were Yemen's army (or Republican guards) tanks from Belarus, AFAIK. Those tanks are like 20 years old. Plenty of them were simply abandoned. Mohamed A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Those T-80BVs were Yemen's army (or Republican guards) tanks from Belarus, AFAIK. Those tanks are like 20 years old. Plenty of them were simply abandoned. Oh, OK. Thanks. Still though, my point was that training is the key in tank performance not the tank itself. (though there are some tanks which just can't do good right now even with exceptional crews. mainly very old ones.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Any tank can be as good as brains of the crew and design of the vehicle allow. Latest combat in Yemen shows both those elements, bad crews and limits of the design. Funny thing is that Abrams tanks were to be used in hull-down frequently, but turret design is actually pretty bad (or better to say - undermines) for hull-down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted September 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 All tanks are terrible since they can be destroyed. CrashbotUS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Pictures of said T-80s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Pictures of said T-80s? This was the one I had.. posted by LoooSeR just above you by a few posts: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 Oh sorry, something must not have clicked with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 Here's the pictures I had. T-80BV: BMP-3: Completely annihilated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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