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Please explain the need of a biggest naval operation in 80 years against opponents who don't have navy.
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I looked up the range of one of the british destroyers in the area and it had a 25km by 25km range.
The sea is fucking BIG. They have fuck all anti air coverage and gaps are easy to find.
So basically they're using the ships to do the closest thing to an orbital bombardment as possible?
They're using the ships to create a patchwork of anti-air defence in the hope they can stop things but the size of the area to cover is simply massive and it's very easy to fly missiles/drones around the perimeter of the ships with a little intel.
Iran has satellites and their own launch system for satellites so my assumption is that they have fairly good intel on ship locations in the area, provided to the Houthis by Iran. This is the only logical way they could be as successful as they have been.
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