The naval war in Yemen

The hidden face of the conflict

In the image you can see part of the effects of the impact of a Noor missile on the HSV-2 Swift used as transport by Saudi Arabia. The ship was eventually decommissioned due to the severity of the damage suffered, which made repair prohibitive.

In March 2015, the tanks of the Houthi coup plotters and the Yemeni army loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh managed to reach the last large city controlled by the government of Abd Rabbu Mansur al-Hadi. At that moment the Saudis, seeing their man fall, decided to intervene definitively to support the latter, initiating a series of operations that cannot be understood without considering the maritime scenario, surely the most unknown dimension of this bloody conflict.

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