New trouble for Riyadh; The Saudi is running out of ammunition.
The Wall Street Journal quoted US and Saudi officials as saying that Riyadh was running out of ammunition to respond to Yemeni drone and missile strikes, and that Riyadh had made an urgent request.
The Wall Street Journal quoted US and Saudi officials as saying that Riyadh was running out of ammunition to respond to weekly Yemeni drone and missile strikes on Saudi territory, and that Riyadh was urgently requesting US and Gulf and European countries are to be re-equipped.
According to US and Saudi officials, over the past few months, Saudi Arabia has been hit by more than 10 ballistic missile and drone strikes every week by Yemeni Houthis (Ansarullah).
Officials quoted by the American newspaper claim that the Saudi military has successfully repelled most of the attacks with its Patriot surface-to-air missile system, but its arsenal of interceptor missiles – missiles used to shoot down airborne weapons – has been dangerously reduced.
According to the report, meanwhile, the US military has re-deployed many of its weapons, which provided Saudi defense and security forces and had been removed from West Asia to counter China.
