US Uses Spy Satellites, Drone Images to Cue Strikes on Houthi Launch Sites
A fighter jet on the flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Red Sea on March 19.
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The US military is blending spy satellite imagery and other intelligence with photos from MQ-9 Reaper drones to cue preemptive airstrikes against antiship missiles and unmanned aircraft that Houthis in Yemen are preparing to launch against ships in the Red Sea, the Air Force’s top Mideast official said.
“We have a layered intelligence, surveillance and collection strategy” over Yemen to harvest images and other information enabling rapid strikes on Houthi systems, Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich, the head of Air Forces Central, told a breakfast meeting of the Defense Writers Group in Washington on Wednesday.