All signs of American weapons are smashed, and Russian-made weapons have to be reported and sold?

Russian-style weapons have sold well in recent years. On the one hand, it has something to do with their actual combat performance in Syria; but on the other hand, it is also related to the extremely poor performance of US-made weapons in the hands of the Saudi coalition forces. Some time ago, the United States sold four Littoral Combat Ships to Saudi Arabia for $11.2 billion. See if the wool comes out of the sheep, and the real money lost in other places is not found in the "close allies" to make up for it, so it won't be sweet to breathe any fairy scent!

It's deep enough to be able to brush the record like this...

We have seen many examples of guerrilla warfare against the regular army in the history of war. Many of my friends don’t believe it, thinking that the guerrillas must not be able to shoot the regular army with those few guns.

As a result, in the Yemen battlefield in the past few years, a case of guerrillas teaching regular soldiers to be a man has been staged alive, which is the most vivid teaching.

On November 30, 2019, the Yemeni Houthis released a video showing guerrillas hitting a helicopter in flight with a missile.

The aircraft is an American-made Apache armed helicopter equipped by the Saudi Arabian army. It is also regarded by many as the most powerful military helicopter in the world today.

After the Apache was destroyed, the two pilots on the plane, one captain and one lieutenant, were reportedly dead.

As we all know, the popularity of Apache gunships is very high. It created an amazing record in the Gulf War in 1991. According to statistics, the Apache helicopters of the U.S. Army fired a total of 5,000 Hellfire missiles at that time. The tanks alone destroyed them. There are as many as 500 cars.

After the Gulf War, the reputation of Apache helicopters spread like wildfire, and a large number of exports began.

As an important ally of the United States in the Middle East, the Saudi army began to equip Apache helicopters in the 1990s. So far, the total number of Apaches in the Saudi army is about 80, which is not a small number.

In 2015, Saudi Arabia organized a coalition force to launch a military operation against the Houthi forces in Yemen. It was originally estimated that the war might be quickly resolved, but it was unexpected that the coalition forces would repeatedly lose under the flexible tactics and tenacious resistance of the Houthi forces.

Taking the situation on the battlefield in Yemen in the past six months, the situation on the Saudi coalition side is not optimistic.

On June 11, 2019, the King Khalid Air Base in Saudi Arabia was attacked by drones;

On August 1, 2019, the Houthi armed forces used drones and missiles to attack a military parade of Yemeni government forces, resulting in the death of more than 40 people, including Brigadier General Munir Yafi;

On September 14, 2019, a major oil processing facility and an oil field of Saudi Aramco were attacked by air strikes, resulting in a reduction of 5.7 million barrels of Saudi oil production per day, which is equivalent to 57% of the daily oil production of Saudi Arabia and 5 of the world’s daily oil production. %;

On September 28, 2019, the Houthi armed forces defeated three coalition brigades near the Saudi border in Najran. The battlefield video showed a large number of armored vehicle wrecks of the coalition forces. According to the Houthi armed forces announced that they had captured thousands of people;

On October 30, 2019, the UAE announced that the withdrawal of its troops from the Yemen battlefield has been completed. Earlier, Saudi officials said they deeply regretted the withdrawal of the UAE;

On November 2, 2019, the Houthi armed forces announced that more than 8,000 Sudanese troops who participated in the war in Yemen had been killed or injured, of which 4,253 were killed.

Behind the series of failures of the Saudi coalition forces, the loss of the large number of US-made weapons equipped with it is also very staggering.

In the case of Apache gunships, it is not the first time that the downed case has been on the battlefield in Yemen;

Not only helicopters, but also fighters equipped by the Saudi Army are inevitably destroyed.

On January 7, 2018, the Houthi armed forces released a video claiming that they used missiles to shoot down an F15 fighter jet.

Since this may be the first clearly documented case of F15 being shot down, many people on the Internet made analysis.

However, based on the overall situation, that F15 may not have been shot down, but was injured;

On the same day, the Saudi army announced that one of its Tornado fighters had crashed due to a "technical failure." This fighter may have been shot down. The wreckage announced by the Houthi armed forces afterwards also looked more like Tornado fighters.

But no matter how you live, it is not easy to shoot down and damage two Western-made fighters in one day.

What is interesting is that on November 21, the Houthi armed forces used missiles to attack the F15 fighter. Although they claimed to have been shot down, there was still no strong evidence.

What can be confirmed, however, is that the air defense forces of the Houthi armed forces do pose a threat to the Saudi air force. This is evident from Saudi Arabia’s large purchases of Chinese-made drones.

What's more important is the fact that the real hammer's downfall or the almost meaning of "declared down" is actually in the publicity level.

Since the 1990s, US-made weapons have appeared to many people to be "invincible", but on the battlefield in Yemen, powerful F15 fighters have no choice but to take the guerrillas, and they can be damaged by them and may be shot down. ；

The reputation of the Apache gunship "King Kong is not bad" has long been pierced.

If the real hammer record of the aircraft is not easy to confirm, then the ground equipment is more intuitive.

We know that the core equipment of the Saudi army is made in the United States. Taking its army as an example, a large number of M1A2 tanks and M2A3 combat vehicles are "blind".

In 2015, when the war broke out, the Saudi Army was also very ambitious, thinking that destroying the Houthis was just a trivial matter.

As a result, the operation was as fierce as a tiger, and Houthi beat him out.

The Saudi Army doesn't know how to cooperate with tanks and guns, and it never conducts reconnaissance in operations, as if the Houthi armed forces are about to surrender when tanks enter Yemen.

As a result, the Saudi army in the marching column was repeatedly ambushed by the Houthi armed forces. Think about it, you can be ambushed by others on that bare landform in the Middle East. How much is this reconnaissance?

Moreover, relying on the AKs and RPGs armed by the Houthi, if the reloading forces cooperate tacitly, it will be okay to be ambushed;

However, the uncles of the sand army peeed on their pants as soon as they heard the gunshot (actual situation, not deduction), and ran away directly after abandoning the car. As a result, the good M1 was given to Hu Sai as a background board for taking pictures, and they were often captured.

Seeing that they couldn't bear it so far, Saudi Arabia greeted Sudan and other small partners with a lot of money to send troops to the front line, retreating to the second line, and dare not be reckless.

But you are the boss, so how can you be a brother?

Therefore, the American armored vehicles and the mine-proof and anti-ambush vehicles that Saudi Arabia equips the poor brothers have also become piles of scrap iron.

At the same time, the Houthi armed forces have become bigger and bigger, not only posing a threat to the Saudi coalition aircraft, but also using missiles to destroy US-made transport ships, extending the front to the sea.

After playing with drones and missiles, the Houthi armed forces simply attacked targets in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is equipped with a large number of Patriot air defense missile systems, but cases of defense failure abound. Taking the Houthi armed forces attacking its oil fields in September as an example, the air defense system did not respond at all.

Others, the United States, is still counting on the Patriot missiles to make money. Your brother's state, isn't it the sign of other American weapons!

In particular, looking at the battle conditions in recent years, the American tanks and infantry fighting vehicles that were once known as the strongest in the land war were dismantled into scrap iron.

The fact that the F15 was destroyed in the air has also played a role in public opinion propaganda;

Even the cowhide of the most lucrative Patriot series was stabbed a few times.

Although we know that weapons sold in the United States must be the "monkey version," and everyone knows that the key to the effectiveness of weapons depends on people.

But when it comes to buying arms, the truth is the same, but actual combat performance seems to be more critical.

In the Gulf War, were Soviet weapons really so unbearable?

Not necessarily.

But after the war, everyone recognized American products, but not Russian products. This is a fact.

In recent years, the performance of the Saudi military has indeed more or less affected the reputation and export of American weapons, causing some customers to turn to Russian-made weapons.

In 2018, Russia’s arms exports reached 13.7 billion U.S. dollars, and there are still 65 billion U.S. dollars in execution or preparation orders. This is the result of the United States and the Western world calling for sanctions.

Russian-style weapons have sold well in recent years, on the one hand, it has something to do with their actual combat performance in Syria;

But on the other hand, it is also related to the poor performance of US-made weapons in the hands of the Saudi coalition forces.

After all, sometimes my performance is the same thing, and the contrast of my peers is also very important.

The United States has a good way of making money. Since you have ruined the reputation of my weapons, then you should pay more!

Some time ago, the United States sold 4 Littoral Combat Ships to Saudi Arabia for $11.2 billion.

See if the wool comes out of the sheep, and the real money lost in other places is not found in the "close allies" to make up for it, so the breath is not sweet!