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Exclusive Follow-ups – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:The website “House of Saud,” a news platform covering the affairs of the Saudi royal family, political developments, and defense and security news related to the Kingdom, published a report titled “The Houthis Identify What Saudi Arabia Cannot Defend.”The site indicated that the Ansar Allah Political Bureau announced a target list including the oil infrastructure of Saudi Aramco, including oil wells, transmission lines, oil tankers, refineries, export ports, and petrochemical plants, in a statement timed to coincide with the Saudi air defenses’ inability to counter the threat.The site added in its explanation of what Ansar Allah threatened on July 18, that a member of the Ansar Allah Political Bureau, Hazam Al-Asad, announced in a statement carried by Press TV and Mehr News Agency, that “oil wells, transmission lines, oil tankers, refineries, oil export ports, stations, and petrochemical plants” are potential targets. This threat came following Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi’s televised statement on July 17, in which he affirmed that “all Saudi oil facilities and vital installations” fall within the range of Houthi missiles and drones if “Riyadh moves towards escalation.”He explained that this language represents a deliberate shift in targeting logic, as Al-Asad’s specific reference to “massive fire and thick columns of black smoke” is read as a preemptive assignment of responsibility, directed at Aramco shareholders and the global energy market, in addition to the Saudi government.The site revealed that this statement is not merely a show; Saudi Arabia’s PAC-3 interceptor missile inventory is only 400 rounds out of 2,800 – i.e., 14% – and no new supplies are expected from Lockheed Martin before 2028. The Pakistani HQ-9 battery operates outside Saudi Arabia’s integrated air defense system. The Yanbu port, the Kingdom’s only oil export port on the Red Sea that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz, is operating beyond its sustainable capacity. This threat exploits a structural, not temporary, defensive gap. Furthermore, the Pakistani HQ-9 battery at PSAB base has not recorded any confirmed combat interception to date.The site mentioned that the target categories are not ambitious; “transmission lines” and “oil export ports” located in Ras Tanura and Yanbu fall within the proven range of “Houthi” strikes. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has confirmed that the Samad-3 loitering munition is capable of reaching Saudi targets up to 900 miles from northern Yemen, and the Zulfiqar ballistic missile – derived from the Fateh-110 – with a range of 1400 kilometers, can also reach, putting every category mentioned within engagement range.Analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) described the attrition rate of Saudi defensive missiles as unprecedented in the history of this system’s operation. Lockheed Martin’s factory in Camden, Arkansas, cannot provide replacement rounds before 2028, and at the consumption rates observed during March and April, the remaining 400 interceptor missiles could be depleted within two to six weeks of renewed intense fighting.He added that the Pakistani HQ-9 battery, the only supplementary air defense system within Saudi territory, is not linked to Saudi Arabia’s integrated air defense system. This battery operates independently under the command of Pakistani personnel only, with a maximum range of over 200 kilometers, but it lacks the ability to exchange tracking data with Saudi fire control networks. A single battery cannot compensate for the coverage shortfall of the PAC-3 system in the face of multiple, simultaneous threats.The site affirmed that the defensive vacuum is not a gap that developed gradually, but rather the result of 38 days of attrition during the defense against Iranian missiles and drones, a coalition that has not fired a single shot since a truce it contributed to collapsing, and a supplementary system that was not structurally integrated into the force it was supposed to reinforce.The site revealed that the strategic repercussions go beyond the immediate military risks. Over four years, the ceasefire allowed Saudi Arabia to redirect its defense resources away from the Yemen front. Air defense system positions were changed. The assumption of a dormant southern front affected procurement schedules, deployment decisions, and the allocation rate of PAC-3 interceptors for operations in the Iranian theater, which consumed 86% of the inventory.The site said that Saudi PAC-3 batteries are deployed in the south, but these batteries are operating at only 14% of their capacity.He explained that the “Houthi” arsenal, the Samad-3 loitering munition, the Quds-2 land-attack cruise missile (with a range of about 1400 kilometers), and the Zulfiqar ballistic missile, put Buqayq, Ras Tanura, and Yanbu within engagement range. The PAC-3 system is designed to target one target per interceptor missile, requiring one projectile per drone or cruise missile. Therefore, a saturation attack combining Samad-3 drones, Quds-2 missiles, and Zulfiqar ballistic missiles on several Aramco facilities simultaneously would force PAC-3 operators to use a limited inventory across multiple axes. With 400 rounds remaining distributed across the entire Kingdom’s air defense network, the calculations do not support sustainable defense of even a single major facility against a multi-directional saturation attack.
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