The Houthis, a ragtag militia have also blockaded the Red Sea for a year now and chased the US carrier battle groups and other NATO countries navies from accessing the Red Sea.
The US military is overhyped and overpriced. This is what Trump is trying to fix. To cut down excessive spending.
The US pays $8000 for a single shell, Russia makes the exact same shell for $600. This is why the US military budget is overbloated.
🇾🇪 Yemen’s Houthi rebels, also known as Ansarallah, shot down the 12th American MQ-9 Reaper UAV over Yemen on Friday morning, according to eyewitness accounts, marking an escalation in the Houthis' attacks targeting US drones.
Videos circulating online showed the drone appearing to be ablaze before crashing in Yemen’s Al-Jawf province.
The US military confirmed awareness of the footage and stated it was investigating the incident without disclosing further details about the type of aircraft involved.
The drone is believed to be an MQ-9, a model that costs approximately $28 million per unit, according to the Congressional Research Service. This drone type can reach altitudes of up to 50,000 feet and can remain airborne for 24 hours.
The US military and the CIA have deployed drones like the MQ-9 for surveillance over Yemen for years. The Houthis reportedly have ground-to-air missiles, including Iranian-manufactured "358" missiles, capable of downing such aircraft.
Military analysts say the downing of an American drone reflects the Houthis’ advancing air defense capabilities.
No official statement was released by Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree, although the group has historically described such actions as defensive measures against “hostile acts.” The US Central Command (CENTCOM) also refrained from commenting on the incident.
Voting activities at two polling stations in Fulton County, 🇺🇸 Georgia, were disrupted after authorities received five bomb threats, leading to the evacuation of both locations for about 30 minutes.
"Thankfully these locations are now operational again and all polling sites are secure with an active security presence," the county's director of registration and elections Nadine Williams said.
According to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the non-credible bomb threats at the polling stations were traced back to Russia. "We identified the source; it was from Russia," he added.
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Afonjudas: Russia leads the world in rocket science - the most difficult science in modern history. Russia even sends US satellites to space because US still hasn't mastered it till now and Elon Musk's SpaceX is trying to correct that.
Now imagine their missile technology. No think am
Elon Musk himself is a product of Russia's space program.
Some of his early mentors were Russian scientists when he traveled to Russia.
He stole Russian space tech secrets and incorporated it into his Space X.
🇷🇺 Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying 2 satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth and 53 small satellites, including two Iranian ones, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said.
The Soyuz-2.1 launch spacecraft, which lifted off from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome, carried two Ionosfera-M satellites, which will become part of the space system for monitoring the Earth's ionosphere, the agency said.
The ionosphere, where Earth's atmosphere meets space, stretches roughly 50 to 400 miles (80 to 644 km) above Earth's surface, according to information provided on NASA's website.
Each Ionosfera-M satellite weighs 430 kg (948 lb) and its working orbit is at an altitude of 820 km (510 miles), according to Interfax news agency.
The system will include in total four of the Ionosfera-M satellites. The next two devices are planned to be launched in 2025, Roscosmos reported.
Among the 53 small satellites are two Iranian satellites, the Kowsar, a high-resolution imaging satellite, and Hodhod, a small communications satellite, as well as the first Russian-Chinese student satellite Druzhba ATURK.
Russia in February launched into space an Iranian research satellite that will scan Iran's topography from orbit, Iran's state media reported at the time.
The US will end up sanctioning itself into a corner, into isolation.
Even their best buddies the EU had to create their own currency (€) to safeguard against the dollars. What makes them think the rest of the world won't?
🇺🇸 Donald Trump pledged on Saturday to punish and make it too costly for countries to shift away from using the US dollar, adding a new pillar to his tariff platform.
“You leave the dollar and you’re not doing business with the United States because we are going to put a 100% tariff on your goods,” the Republican presidential nominee said at a rally in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
The statement follows months of discussions between Trump and his economic advisers on ways to penalize allies or adversaries who seek active ways to engage in bilateral trade in currencies other than the dollar.
Options have included export controls, currency manipulation charges and tariffs, people familiar with the matter have previously told Bloomberg News.
Trump, who has long embraced protectionist trade policies, said the dollar has been “under major siege” for eight years. China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa discussed de-dollarization at a summit last year. By contrast, Trump wants the dollar to remain the world’s reserve currency, a pledge he renewed at Saturday’s rally.
Russian special forces eliminated US Navy Seals and Ranger Special Forces who had previously met with Joe Biden In Israel last year.
One of the mercenaries eliminated in Russia’s borderline Bryansk Region was an officer of the 75th Ranger Regiment, or Army Rangers, an elite airborne light infantry combat unit within the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), a military expert told TASS.
