Local Editor
Yemeni naval forces have unveiled a domestically-designed and -manufactured sea mine that can target and destroy military vessels of Saudi Arabia and its regional allies, which have intruded into Yemen’s territorial waters in the strategic Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The Mersad (Ambush) naval mine was introduced for the first time in a documentary entitled “Sea of Fire” and broadcast on Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network on Thursday evening.
The documentary showed that Yemeni naval forces had sophisticated anti-ship and coastal defense systems in their inventory, which are entirely domestically-manufactured.
It further showed the scenes of an Emirati HSV-2 Swift hybrid catamaran in flames after being targeted by Yemeni forces off the coast of the Red Sea port city of Mukha in southwestern Yemen on October 1, 2016.
On Wednesday, Yemeni naval forces, backed by fighters from Popular Committees, reportedly targeted a Saudi military vessel in a missile attack off the coast of the country’s northwestern province of Hajjah.
A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told al-Masirah television network that the gunboat was targeted with a guided missile in waters near the port city of Midi.
Saudi Arabia and some of its allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan, launched the brutal war in an attempt to reinstall former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and crush the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has played a significant role, alongside the Yemeni army, in defending the nation.
Some 15,000 Yemenis have so far been killed and thousands more injured as a result of the bloody campaign which has also left a record 22.2 million Yemenis in a dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger, according to UN statistics.
Yemeni Health authorities announced last week that 1 in 3 Yemeni children suffer from severe malnutrition and that 8,000 dialysis patients may face death if the Saudi blockade persists in the war-torn country.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
