Spectacular Houthi naval drone attack on tanker

The Houthis are being continually rearmed by the Iranian army, and will soon also receive missiles and drones from Russia. Moscow announced that it will provide all kinds of weapons to all countries and groups that want to fight the United States. Unfortunately, the consequences of attacks carried out by militants are already dire.

Well, the Houthis have just struck kamikaze naval drones filled with explosivesinto two tankers. The first one is the Chios Lion, sailing under the Liberian flag, and the second one is the Panamanian tanker MT Bentley 1. Yemeni fighters published a video in which they immortalized the entire course of the attack on Chios Lion. It must be admitted that it looked truly spectacular.

In the video you can see how the drones hit the tanker and as a result there is an explosion. The vessel probably sank. It is unknown what happened to its crew.The motive for the attack was given as the use of Israeli ports by the owners of the vessels. The attack took place southwest of the port city of Al-Hudaydah.

— Scenes from the operation against the oil vessel Chios Lion, which became the target of the Yemeni armed forces in the Red Seain connection with the violation of the decision by the entrepreneur who owns it, prohibiting it from entering the ports of occupied Palestine — we learn from the published entry by Yahia Saree.

Huthis since last fall they are trying to attack Israel for its actions in the Gaza Strip. All drones or ballistic missiles are regularly shot down by warships of the US-led coalition. According to The War Zone, based on reports from security guards, the ship was hit by a surface structure about 5-7 meters long. It hit the ship in the stern, generating a small explosion.

The Houthi drones are very simple and even makeshift constructions. They are most often made from private boats, to which GPS antennas and optical sensors for remote control are attached. Each such drone is also filled with a huge mass of explosive charge.

The methods of Houthi fighters’ attacks on ships are reminiscent of Ukrainian naval drone strikes on Russian Black Sea Fleet shipsThe war in Ukraine has shown that previously unobvious technologies have proven to be surprisingly effective. It was similar with kamikaze drones, which, inspired by their use in Ukraine, have become a good way to fight rebels, for example in Sudan.

Source: geekweek.interia.pl

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