Heron TP is basically IAI Eitan. It is significantly bigger platform than the older Herons. So carrying capacity, endurance and the envelopes + buffers concerning those and I suppose the general array of sensors/weaponry it can bring to bear are more up to date compared to legacy heron (which...
In anticipation of a friend joining this forum (hopefully soon) to discuss a question posed to me elsewhere, I figured I would start a thread for it more generally.
For first point of discussion, he wanted to discuss the captains/heroes/guests list of Homer--->Joyce---->Fitzgerald in Illiad...
It would surprise me if Houthis hold onto this area....it would probably form too much of salient and be obvious target for KSA forces later (looking at map and also that this is KSA land after all). I think houthis have wisely opted for maximum hit and then retreat...as punitive demonstration...
Let me guess, its our favourite "if crows could laugh" troll. Good to see you guys drop by here to discuss, its new beginning here and 0-troll policy...so you can actually get to meat of something.
Training is one thing (and that needs all kind of things like esprit de corps over long period of time and deep military institutions to cultivate and deploy these)...... but the main failure here is Saudi logistics to have this level and nature of total rout from all sides on their own turf...
Yah corona-2020 took sledgehammer to everything.
It is hard to say if 2019 was genuine recovery/improvement (in Balance of payments which is just one part of economy to begin with) or a one-off driven by whatever transient (or combination of transients), it would have needed a non-corona world...
Not sure where the underlying numbers are from, here they are according to IMF database:
i.e there was a good improvement in 2019 in all (red box highlight) trade balance (goods only and goods + services combined) and also current account (first row at top) from years prior.
Goods +...