{"id":14113,"date":"2018-06-17T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T09:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2018-06-17T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T09:42:06","slug":"ansarullah-targets-saudi-led-coalition-forces-in-with-tochka-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/ansarullah-targets-saudi-led-coalition-forces-in-with-tochka-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansarullah Targets Saudi-Led Coalition Forces in with Tochka Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On June 15, the Yemeni Missiles Force of the Ansarullah revolutionaries announced that it had launched an OTR-21 Tochka missile at a gathering of Saudi-led coalition troops along the western coast of Yemen. The Yemen al-Masirah TV reported that dozens of coalition fighters had been killed in the missile strike.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ansarullah Targets Saudi-Led Coalition Forces in with Tochka Missile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.english.alahednews.com.lb\/uploaded2\/Essays\/2018\/June\/June%2016\/tochka.jpg\" alt=\"Ansarullah Targets Saudi-Led Coalition Forces in with Tochka Missile\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Yemeni Missiles Force said that one of its Unnamed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) managed to detect the Saudi-led coalition gathering along the western coast of Yemen, earlier. This is the first time the pro-Houthis force reveals such an important detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Soviet-made OTR-21 Tochka tactical ballistic missile has a range of over 70km and a 482kg high explosive warhead. The Soviet ballistic missile is also known for its high accuracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is not the first use of OTR-21 Tochka in the Yemeni war. On September 4 of 2017, the Ansarullah launched a Tochka missile at a base of the Saudi-led coalition in the province of Marib. Back then, the missile strike killed over 100 service members of the coalition and destroyed millions-worth military hardware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Saudi-led coalition is yet to comment on the new missile strike. This may mean that the coalition air defense force failed to intercept the missile, which has a very high speed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The use of advance missiles such as the OTR-21 Tochka confirms that the Ansarullah and their allies from the Yemeni Army are willing to use all of their limited resources to repel the ongoing attack of the Saudi-led coalition on the port of Hodeida.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 15, the Yemeni Missiles Force of the Ansarullah revolutionaries announced that it had launched an OTR-21 Tochka missile at a gathering of Saudi-led coalition troops along the western coast of Yemen. The Yemen al-Masirah TV reported that dozens of coalition fighters had been killed in the missile strike. The Yemeni Missiles Force said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14115,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions\/14115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}