{"id":492,"date":"2015-10-27T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T10:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=492"},"modified":"2015-10-27T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:58:53","slug":"houthis-claim-to-have-launched-an-anti-ship-missile-against-a-uae-corvette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/10\/27\/houthis-claim-to-have-launched-an-anti-ship-missile-against-a-uae-corvette\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUTHIS CLAIM TO HAVE LAUNCHED AN ANTI-SHIP MISSILE AGAINST A UAE CORVETTE (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A video released by Almasirah TV, a channel run by the Shiia Houthi movement in Yemen, appears to show the launch of a missile against one of the UAE\u2019s Baynunah-class corvettes. The alleged launch took place from a coastal platform close to the port of Mocha in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Based on the sequence of the launch it is estimated that the missile was a subsonic, Chinese made, anti-ship C-801 missile, the export version of the YJ-8\/8A. Yemen bought an unknown number of these missiles from China, which are compatible with the non-Chinese fire control system used by the Huganfen class missile patrol boats of the Yemeni Navy.<\/p>\n

However, none of the Huganfen class missile patrol boats are operational any more. Seven months ago the IHS Country Risk Report for Yemen mentioned the existence of C-801 missiles in the arsenal of the Yemeni Navy, which is non-operational because of the civil war.<\/p>\n

According to the report if the Houthis were to acquire these C-801s, it would be unlikely that they could use them to target shipping.<\/p>\n

If the video is genuine, the Shiia militia of the Houthis must have managed to use these missiles against surface targets located a short distance from the coast.<\/p>\n

Although it is not known how many similar missiles the Houthis may have in their possession, the possibility that they might have engineered a way to use them from coastal platforms could affect the safety of shipping lanes in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.<\/p>\n

Naval forces of the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen have enforced a naval blockade of the country, creating a close security zone around the Yemeni coastline, patrolling the waters and protecting commercial vessels that travel through the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
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A video released by Almasirah TV, a channel run by the Shiia Houthi movement in Yemen, appears to show the launch of a missile against one of the UAE\u2019s Baynunah-class corvettes. The alleged launch took place from a coastal platform close to the port of Mocha in the Red Sea. Based on the sequence of… Continue reading HOUTHIS CLAIM TO HAVE LAUNCHED AN ANTI-SHIP MISSILE AGAINST A UAE CORVETTE (VIDEO)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[201,204,202,33,205,203,200,206],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-bab-al-mandab-strait","tag-baynunah-class-corvettes","tag-c-801","tag-dcss-news","tag-houthis","tag-uae","tag-yemen","tag-yemeni-navy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}