"With $295 billion 2019 defense budget, Saudi Arabia Saturday failed to stop a drone attack on its oil installations from the Yemeni rebel rag tag militia.
According to the article,
The attacks some 500 miles from Yemeni soil not only exposed a Saudi vulnerability in the war against the Houthis, but demonstrated how relatively cheap it has become to stage such high-profile attacks. The drones used in Saturday's attack may have cost $15,000 or less to build, said Wim Zwijnenburg, a senior researcher on drones at PAX, a Dutch peace organization.
Conflict Armament Research, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the rebels have flown drones into the radar arrays of Saudi Arabia's Patriot missile batteries disabling them and allowing the Houthis to fire ballistic missiles into the kingdom unchallenged."
Says me:
Why do I, on the other side of the planet, have to pay more for gas if Saudi Arabias 295 BILLION dollar Patriot missile system fails?
Should Boeing, the manufacturer be responsible?
How come , if US places sanctions on Venezuela or Iran, severely reducing the worlds oil supplies, doesn't the price of fuel going up , but, only when some hick Afro camel jockeys torch an oil drum?
Wutz da deal?
Who said camel jockeys were smart ?
UAV. They used a UAV. Drones don't fly and it's a rotten misnomer.
They don't need to be smart. They just need $29K and 44lbs of explosives.
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Wim Zwijnenburg isn't aware of commercial UAV being readily available.
Billions spent on U.S. weapons didn��t protect the Saudis�� most critical oil sites
The Saturday attack represented an unusually well-planned operation that would have been difficult for even the most well-equipped and experienced countries to detect and neutralize, experts said.
source: WAPO
OB, you need to subscribe to a real news outlet. El WAPO ranks right up there with Weekly World News. Are they going to claim the Houthis and the Blowup Fish used Bat Boy as a guidance system.
Scroll up and read this posted by NZDOUG
Conflict Armament Research, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the rebels have flown drones into the radar arrays of Saudi Arabia's Patriot missile batteries disabling them and allowing the Houthis to fire ballistic missiles into the kingdom unchallenged."
Far smarter than knuckle dragging missing link simian like yourself.
Why? They are made by Raytheon not Boeing.