Italy to deploy warships to protect shipping through Bab al-MandebItalys defence minister warns of severe economic fallout if Bab al-Mandeb becomes impassable, bypassing EU delays.https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2026/9/18/italy-to-deploy-warships-to-protect-shipping-through-bab-al-mandebFew moments later:Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said Friday that an Italian Eurofighter jet was hit in an attack on an air base in Saudi Arabia. The plane was destroyed, but no military personnel was injured.https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2026/09/18/italian-eurofighter-hit-in-attack-on-air-base-in-saudi-arabia-says-crosetto_c410a57f-49d7-4afa-9f6e-fec1e7650929.htmlDeploying warships to Bab al-Mandeb leaves Italian naval assets vulnerable to missile, drone, and proxy strikes. Do they really want to lose warships too and have all their cargo ships sunk or is it just an empty diplomatic gesture? xDVid-rel: satellite imagery shows impacts at a military facility near RSAF King Khalid Air Base, Saudi Arabia. Subtle darkening is visible within the site. Such subtle gray spots often indicate that $50-100M jets were fucked. Due to US actions restricting satellite access and imagery release, it is now extremely hard to assess damage at ME bases (including American ones). Even low-resolution Sentinel-2 was delayed, and higher-resolution evidence is censored or unavailable. A tiny black blurred dot on Sentinel-2 could be a crater, scorch mark, or massive aircraft damage but there is no way to confirm it unless politicians decide to be honest (rare) xD
>>542824588make a deal with them so they let our ships go? what do they like, what do they want? art of the deal lets go
>>542824588>italycan't wait for shitaly to become turncoat and side with Houthi xD
Lmao wasting money to send ship and gamble to not get droned instead of just paying the toll.
>>542824652and france immediately surrenders
>>542824588If they're anything like in WW2 the Houthis have nothing to worry about.
>>542824644They want white pussy and new adidas sandals.
Sentinel-2L satellite imagery shows a possible impact point at King Fahd Air Base in Taif, western Saudi Arabia, where the destroyed Italian jet was hidden.An aircraft/fighter jet shelter at 21.4754, 40.5267 appears to have been damaged in the Houthi attack.But resolution is so ridiculously low that it is impossible to say anything. xDFollowing US diplomatic request, the EU Council approved a 24-hour dissemination delay on public Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery over the Middle East. So it gives Mutts 24 hours to clean the damage so they were not visible even on this low res imagery.Thats how USrael cares about its PR of being "invincible" amid interceptor depletion xD
>>542826051The question is: why doesn't Iran (and proxies) have Geran 4/5s yet.
>>542827054Because Russia doesnt need to supply Iran with weapon. Iran is not a beggar and aid-whore like the country 404 also known as Ukraine. Both China and Russia can help/support Iran more subtely than a simpleton-tier West pushing all its high end weapon system into Ukraine like candies. Iranians developed an advanced MIC on their own despite decades of sanctions. Iran already fields jet-powered drones: the Shahed-238 (similar to Geran-3) is domestically built, jet-propelled, and operational. Its design lineage extends to the Karrar jet UAV, which Russias Geran-5 heavily copies. Therefore Iran possesses indigenous jet drone technology comparable to later Geran models.
This frog boiling is hilarious, you can see massive dieoff recession coming and it's all purposeful, there will probably be a massive killzone created either in one giant section or in several bubbles and while it's being prepared you will get bab el this hor mooz that.
>>542824588That does not at all look like a place where you would a park a jet fighter. No runway visible in the area and hardly any room to move between these buildings. What is this nonsense?
>>542835888Look at this: >>542826051 or vid-rel, MALE drone hangar in King Khalid hit with cm precision few days ago. You need to be a shill or a retard to question Iranian/proxy targeting capabilities after getting so many knockdowns xD
