Yemeni forces battle US aircraft carrier, with Jon Elmer

We're going to bring in Yemen here. If we can look at number 10, take a look at the map and get ourselves situated in uh the Yemeni front. Um you can see here it's the battle in the Red Sea. uh taking place. Um this is now it's been going on since uh openly since March 15th when the United States uh attacked Yemen um and the blockade of the Red Sea was stopped by the Ansarah and Yemeni armed forces when the ceasefire in Gaza was into effect. Um since the American attack, there's been more than 200 air strikes um on Yemen, but Yemen continues to carry out its legal uh obligations to stop to intervene uh in a genocide. Uh Abdul Malik al- Houthi said the other day that no matter how many strikes uh the Americans give uh hit Yemen with, it is impossible for the American aggression to affect our position and the position of our people in supporting Gaza. The American aggression against us will not affect our capabilities and there are good tidings coming in the development of our capabilities. So stay tuned essentially is what he said about that. Let's take a look at number 11. You can see the USS Harry Truman strike group. You can see this from the satellite. This is from maritime tracker MT Anderson using uh EU satellite uh Sentinel 2 satellite footage. And this is from this weekend. So you can see the uh carrier strike group and its destroyers that are around it. Um like I said, more than 230 air strikes u and Tomahawk cruise missile attacks um that have taken place. We're talking about dozens a day, every day, day and night, as Trump uh said in all capitals in his social media posts. We don't bring those in too often because I don't think they're worth uh saying much, but he said that uh these attacks will continue until uh the Ansarah and Yemeni armed forces give in, which we know they won't do. If we look at this next map, you can see uh where on the map that those satellite footage uh puts them. So, they're north of Jedda um off the coast of uh Yamu uh Saudi Arabia. So, they're pretty high up in the Red Sea. They've kept a distance. We haven't seen any footage of the American aircraft carrier strike group within 500 kilometers of Yemen. Um, and Al Houthi has been telling us that they're consistently about 1,300 kilometers away. Um, but that does not put them out of range of anti-ship uh ballistic missiles or the drones that um the many armed forces launch at them. Um so if we look at the next one you can see the carrier strike group's position and you can see a number of his uh US forces uh in the region and the buildup is happening and it's intensifying. Um the Pentagon uh someone in the Pentagon, an unnamed source spoke to defense news uh this week and talked about the Pentagon sending an additional airwing of third F-35 fighter jets to Jordan. Um the Pentagon further rushed military assets to the Middle East Central Command. The USS Truman carrier strike group deployment in the Red Sea was extended. Uh the other day the US aircraft carrier Carl Vincent and its strike group would be joining the USS Truman. Um that is steaming uh on its way. It should the second aircraft carrier strike group should uh arrive in the next 10 days in theaters. So there will be two uh aircraft carrier strike groups for um for the Yemeni armed forces to target. Um and of course that looks like this buildup is a buildup for there's a lot of talk that it's a buildup for Iran, but this looks to me like a buildup for Yemen. The Pentagon also sent multiple A-10 warthogs, which are um closeair support for ground troops to the region. And six uh B2 stealth bombers are being sent are are in the Navy support field. Uh the Navy base um at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which is just um south of where that map shows us right there. Um puts them well in range um of carrying out the attacks. And B2 bombers are they carry like 10 times the ordinance uh of an of an F-18 which is what takes off from the flight decks of these aircraft carriers to bomb Yemen. At the same time, Defense News said the US has redirected multiple scarce air defense systems from South Korea to the Middle East, including Patriot batteries and one one terminal highaltitude area defense, a THAAD uh air defense system. So they are bu they're building up for this uh battle their uh significant increase in uh troop numbers and weaponry in the region. This is now a tens of billions of dollar enterprise. If we look at the next one, you could just see the different ships. These are the the ships that are uh in that strike group that you saw in the uh satellite footage. Um, so their super the F-18 Super Hornets take off from the USS Harry Truman and then those uh cruisers and guided missile destroyers um are what send the Tomahawk cruise missiles and the standard missiles that are uh shooting down the drones um and uh ballistic anti-hship ballistic missiles that are sent by uh the amenes essentially every day. Um if we look at the next um slide, you can see um Yahiasari the spokesperson for the many armed forces said um that they had targeted in the past, this was the third engagement in the past 24 hours. So they're having multiple engagements a day. The engagements can last several hours. Um we know from uh uh previous uh engagements with the USS Carney right early on in the war that some of them last 9 hours of continuous uh attacks and there was uh another one today. So this message uh I'll update this message is was just from today just before we came on air. Uh they said in response to US aggression against our country, the naval missile and drone forces of the Yemeni armed forces targeted enemy warships in the Red Sea led by the aircraft carrier US uh the US aircraft carrier Truman with a number of cruise missiles and drones in an ongoing engagement until the time of this announcement which is the third in the past 24 hours. And the day before there was uh a similar statement that you're seeing there that also talked about the third uh engagement in the past 24 hours. So the operational tempo is picking up uh in this battle. The armed forces operations against the American enemy continue targeting its warships in the declared operations area and an increasing pace. It says, "The operations of the armed forces against the Israeli enemy by preventing its navigation in the Red and Arabian seas and by targeting its military and vital installations aimed to stop the genocide against the oppressed people of Palestine in the Gaza Strip, which is continuing in full view of the Arabs, Muslims, and the entire world. These operations, our operations will not stop until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted. So essentially attacking these ships uh according to the amen is putting them in a defensive position um because their fighter jets and um destroyers are tied up trying to knock down the cruise missiles um and drones that are being fired at them. Um also if we look at the next slide um they're still downing drones. This is footage from uh two days ago of the final stages of a $32 million Reaper drone hitting the ground. This is hard down as the military likes to say. That's that's what a hard down is. Uh into flames. Uh this was um this took place east of SA in the Marib province. Um and you can see the footage from there. We are going to uh they're showing you this the next day and you can see key parts of it. The voices uh on this video are saying this is wreckage of an MQ9 that was downed yesterday. It was down by the many armed forces. And you can clearly see that it is. At the end of this video, you're going to really see that it is where you see the uh uh American military randle, the round, the the logo of the American uh of American Air Force's uh planes. You don't need Pentagon confirmation. You see it there, and you'll see get a better shot of it uh towards the end of this video. You don't need uh Pentagon. See, he's holding it there. Uh, it's pretty good clue that that that's the real thing right there. Um, that's the RDLE for any American military aircraft. Um, the Americans are they mostly admit to these. They they do it off the record or they do it uh anonymously to the military press and Stars and Stripes. Uh, when they downed the last one, they had admitted to 13 of them downed. Um, and this is the 16th down in the Battle of the Red Sea and 20th overall. If we look at the next map, you can see they released for us u uh a map of where they all are. This is since 2017 when they got the first one. The Americans confirmed the first four between 2017 uh and 2021 during the um US Saudi war against U. Yemen. uh and then the 16 more uh in this battle and then today just before going on air uh they announced uh another one uh shot down. So two in the last 72 hours have been shot down. Um also ballistic missiles fired at Israel. Um let's show the next slide is this is the eighth attack um since the war resumed um ballistic missile attack against uh Israel. Um, and we can see the statement that attached uh to this one. We can show I'll show the next slide. The next slide is a video uh of the missile that's used, the Palestine 2. I broke this down on an earlier show, but um this is this is old footage um to show you the the weapon that's being launched. It's got the kafia nose cone. Um and the uh Yemeni armed forces said on Saturday that in support of the oppressed people of Palestine and the backing of their noble and valiant resistance, the missile forces carried out a military operation targeting Bengurian airport. Through this operation, the Yemeni armed forces affirmed the failure of the American aggression in preventing Yemen from continuing to support uh it continuing its support operations for the oppressed people of Palestine. The dozens of daily air strikes will not deter the armed forces from fulfilling our religious, moral, and humanitarian duties. And as Craig Mccyber pointed out on our show last week or the week before, it's also a legal obligation uh to intervene in a genocide. Um so you can see the launch uh of these missiles. These uh have a range of 2150 kilometers. Um they travel at Mach 8 which is technically hypersonic although hypersonic in missiles uh relates to the ability to maneuver at that speed which we have so far not gotten confirmation of that. Um although we have seen these missiles land um I've shown you on this program a number of times these missiles landing in uh Israel particularly in southern Israel uh but we also see them partially intercepted and the Israelis are firing multiple arrow uh systems at missile anti anti- missile defense systems at uh these uh ballistic missiles and the aerosystem is a $3 million warhead. They're firing multiple at each of these uh Palestine 2 ballistic missiles and the arrow battery itself is $175 million battery. Um so again, we're just talking about um extreme amounts of money that the Americans are investing into allowing Israel to continue this genocide. This is all for the Americans to allow Israel to continue the genocide because answer the Yemeni armed forces have made it very clear if the blockade on Gaza ends, if the war on Gaza ends, if the ceasefire is on, all of this attack, all of these attacks um will stop. And for the Americans, they don't care. that they wanted to support Israel in this brutal conflict in any uh in any way that they can and every way that they can at this point. The bill military buildup that I just described earlier is uh tens of billions of dollars. Those bombers themselves, the B2 bombers are uh multi-billion dollar bombers. And that's a shot of the uh Kafia uh nose cone for um that. So again, the many armed forces, these operations against the Israeli enemy will continue until the aggression on Gaza ceases and the siege is lifted. So they have been consistent on that. That is the resistance report for day 545. [Music]