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by dragonwriter 899 days ago
> but they could likely pull off a single fast attack on Cairo or Suez if they were so inspired.

No. They couldn't. Yemen to either is like three times the range of the SU-22 on a shortest distance path, which would take them through Saudi Arabia and close enough for mistakes of intent to Israel, either of which—as well as Egypt—has Air Forces more than capable of intercepting and destroying them if they magically gained the range to try to pull of that kind of flight.

The Houthi Air Force is useful for their civil war, and not a whole lot else.