By Top War
After Israel launched a military operation against the Palestinian movement Hamas, the Yemeni Islamist group Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis, from the beginning of October 2023 with the help of shock drones and missiles attack commercial and military ships in the Red Sea.
The Houthis have declared that they entered the war on the side of Hamas and say they only target ships calling at Israeli ports or those whose owners have ties to Israel. In reality, Houthi attacks on transport ships and tankers are indiscriminate, and there have already been several cases of attacks on ships delivering cargo in the interests of Russia.
The Houthis, being completely economically insolvent, are cynically using the situation in Gaza to increase their authority in the Muslim world, demonstrate their military capabilities and find wealthy sponsors willing to pay for further confrontation with the West.
The Houthi attacks have severely hampered international shipping and a number of companies have announced they will no longer send their ships through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea and is one of the most important shipping lanes.
It should be understood that when sending goods along bypass routes, delivery times and costs inevitably increase, for which end consumers, including those in Russia, ultimately pay out of their own pockets.
Relatively recently, over a glass of tea, one of my good friends, who has long worked for the Rosneft company on Sakhalin, was interested in what anti-ship weapons that could cause damage to tankers carrying Russian oil do the Houthis have, how dangerous they are, and how this can be counteracted. Since this topic is very extensive, I decided to devote a separate publication to it.
In their first attacks, the militants landed on the decks of ships from helicopters and tried to capture them using small boats. It is known that the Houthis are trying to use unmanned speedboats to block shipping, but the greatest danger is posed by unmanned aerial vehicles and anti-ship missiles…
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