WASHINGTON August 09. 2024 (Saba) - The American newspaper "Politico" revealed that the United States is facing high costs due to confronting drones launched by the Yemeni armed forces, in operations carried out in support of the resistance in the Gaza Strip.
The newspaper questioned US President Joe Biden's words that Washington "is not at war anywhere in the world." It explained that what has been happening in the Red Sea skies, for about a year, "is really like a war."
The battle in the Red Sea "has been pushed into the background, with the world focused" on what is happening inside the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Zionist war on it, and on other issues such as the US presidential election and the war in Ukraine.
Speaking of this "battle in the Red Sea," Politico reported that U.S. forces fired about 800 missiles and fought about seven rounds of airstrikes against Yemen.
It also stated that the US Navy is trying to shoot down most of the drones and missiles launched by the Yemeni armed forces, in the direction of ships linked to the Zionist entity. "This requires Washington to deploy warships in the Red Sea for several months," It said.
The mission of U.S. forces in the Red Sea "has attracted many sophisticated U.S. assets, including multiple aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers and air wings stationed in the region," It said.
In the same context, the newspaper quoted the commander of naval forces in the US Central Command, George Wyckoff, acknowledging that "the Yemenis are well armed."
The chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee, Republican Mike Waltz, acknowledged that the US is "burning tens of billions of dollars to" fight Yemenis.
In this context, Politico noted that it is the US Navy that is "mainly facing waves of cheap mass-produced drones" launched by the Yemeni armed forces in their operations against Israel in the Red Sea, in support of the Gaza Strip.
While these drones "keep coming," the U.S. military is forced to "burn hundreds of missiles worth millions of dollars, in an endless mission on the horizon," the newspaper continued.
The newspaper also showed what happened in the Red Sea during the mission of the aircraft carrier "USS Eisenhower", which departed for the United States and was replaced by the aircraft carrier "Roosevelt".
This included U.S. forces firing "more than 135 Tomahawk ground attack missiles, each costing more than $2 million," in renewed aggression against Yemen.
The US ships also launched "155 Standard Missile, of various types, each costing between two and four million dollars," in their attempts to destroy drones launched by the Yemeni armed forces.
Eisenhower's F-18s also fired 60 air-to-air missiles and 420 air-to-ground missiles during attacks on weather and on the ground in Yemen.
More broadly, the commander of naval forces at U.S. Central Command explained that protracted deployments to the Red Sea "will influence decisions to deploy U.S. ships around the world, two or three years from now."
The battle in the Red Sea is "the most extensive and sustained military operation currently waged by the United States." It warned that it "risks depleting munitions that the Defense Department prefers to store for a possible confrontation with China."
The newspaper also noted that the anti-ship missiles and precision surface-to-air missiles used by the United States against Yemen are "the same type of weapons that will be at the forefront and center during any confrontation with China." "The length and uncertain end of the mission of U.S. forces in the Red Sea has frustrated members of Congress."
Politico quoted the chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee, Republican Mike Waltz, as saying that "China is the ultimate big winner."
On the Democratic side, Joe Courtney, the top Democrat on the House Naval Armed Services Committee, warned that expanded U.S. military operations "will put pressure on lawmakers to raise the Pentagon budget for next year, more than the Biden administration has sought."
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resource : Saba
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