Arab coalition deploys Patriot to Yemen

[Zarvan]

Airbus Defence and Space imagery showing Arab coalition helicopter and Patriot air-defence systems deployed at the Safir airstrip in Yemen's Marib province on 1 October. The 4 September ballistic missile attack may have hit the military base to the southwest where the coalition was building new structures. (Copyright PLEIADES © CNES 2015, Distribution Airbus DS / IHS)
Key Points

• The Arab coalition has deployed two Patriot fire units to defend its base in Yemen's Marib province
• The deployment corroborates claims that the base was hit by a ballistic missile on 4 September

The Arab coalition fighting to reinstall Yemen's ousted president has deployed Patriot air-defence systems to defend its forward operating base in Marib province, satellite imagery from Airbus Defence and Space has confirmed.

The imagery from 1 October shows two Patriot fire units, each with an AN/MPQ-53/65 radar and just two launchers, at either end of the airstrip at the Safir refinery in Marib. Six AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, two UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters, and one CH-47 Chinook heavy lift helicopter can be seen on the airstrip.

The deployment of the Patriot systems effectively confirms there is an ongoing ballistic missile threat to the base as Yemen's air force has not resisted the coalition since it launched its intervention in March and most (if not all) of its aircraft have now been destroyed on the ground.

The Ansar Allah group that the coalition is fighting claimed on 4 September that it launched a short-range OTR-21 Tochka ballistic missile at the Safir base. The coalition never confirmed that claim, but reported suffering heavy casualties on that day.

The United Arab Emirates' (UAE's) official WAM news agency initially reported that 22 Emirati soldiers had been killed in Yemen; Saudi media cited Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asiri, the kingdom's military spokesman, as saying that 10 Saudi soldiers were killed in a missile attack in Marib; and the Bahrain News Agency announced the death of five soldiers that the country had deployed to protect Saudi Arabia's southern border without saying they were killed in the same incident inside Yemen.

The satellite imagery may show signs of the Tochka attack at a Yemeni military garrison located less than 2 km to the southwest of the airstrip where the coalition was erecting new structures to support its operations.




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[SipahSalar]

Maybe the "Arab coalition" can deploy some of these to Turkey as well? They are more needed there quite honestly.

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

Maybe the "Arab coalition" can deploy some of these to Turkey as well? They are more needed there quite honestly.

i am fine with russians entering turkish air space they brought this on themselves by supporting terror in the first place

 

[bdslph]

i am fine with russians entering turkish air space they brought this on themselves by supporting terror in the first place

true

 

[SipahSalar]

i am fine with russians entering turkish air space they brought this on themselves by supporting terror in the first place

Are you saying the Arab Coalition played no part in supporting terror in turkey?

 

[Kambojaric]

i am fine with russians entering turkish air space they brought this on themselves by supporting terror in the first place

What about the terror Turkey has had to endure for decades coming out of Syria or that is being supported by the Syrian regime. I can totally empathize with the Turks because Afghanistan did the exact same thing to us that Syria has been doing to Turkey for decades i.e producing instability, producing terrorists, producing refugees etc. Its easy for other states to judge Turkeys actions in Syria but from a Turkish nationalist perspective Turkeys intervention makes full sense as it is the one being most affected Syria.

Collaboration between Assad regime and the PKK terrorist organization

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

Are you saying the Arab Coalition played no part in supporting terror in turkey?

arab coalition including many countries and different opinions about the situation in syria but we agree on most things

What about the terror Turkey has had to endure for decades coming out of Syria or that is being supported by the Syrian regime. I can totally empathize with the Turks because Afghanistan did the exact same thing to us that Syria has been doing to Turkey for decades i.e producing instability, producing terrorists, producing refugees etc. Its easy for other states to judge Turkeys actions in Syria but from a Turkish nationalist perspective Turkeys intervention makes full sense as it is the one being most affected Syria.

Collaboration between Assad regime and the PKK terrorist organization

if that is true and i doubt it because kurds demand land from syria and iran and iraq as well then both regimes made a big mistake
btw pkk are angels compared to isil

 

[Oldman1]

Maybe the "Arab coalition" can deploy some of these to Turkey as well? They are more needed there quite honestly.

Don't worry, there are Turkish and American F-16s nearby to cover that just in case the Russians are that dumb to attack Turkey.

 

[Total Destruction]

after Tuchka missile , they must deploy patriot

 

[Ceylal]

Are you saying the Arab Coalition played no part in supporting terror in turkey?

They are Arabs, conspiracies, backstabbing is part of the daily menu...Look what they have done to Lybia, Syria, Yemen, Irak....

Don't worry, there are Turkish and American F-16s nearby to cover that just in case the Russians are that dumb to attack Turkey.

The US or NATO will not defend Turkey...They will find a reason to weasel out of it...They can't even trust them with a Patriot defense system, what make you think that they will intervene for her defense. Turkey's in the echiquier of Western defense against the Russian was replaced by the Blatic countries and ex Warsaw , as Poland, Romania...

 

[Oldman1]

The US or NATO will not defend Turkey...They will find a reason to weasel out of it...They can't even trust them with a Patriot defense system, what make you think that they will intervene for her defense. Turkey's in the echiquier of Western defense against the Russian was replaced by the Blatic countries and ex Warsaw , as Poland, Romania...

The U.S. had plans to pull the Patriots out long before the Russians intervened. You don't see American F-16s being pulled out do you?