Employed Weapon Systems by the Coalition Forces in Yemen

– Forced Procurements, Doubtful Results?

Abstract

The multi-stakeholder Yemen conflict has a lot of elements which are worth analysing. The coalition form military intervention, which occurred in 2015 and consisted of more Arabic states from the region, had interesting experiences in many ways. From military aspects, the two strongest and most active members of the coalition are Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Both of them have deployed almost their entire army, all of the different service branches have been used during the operations. A common characteristic in both forces is the extensive use of state of the art military equipment, mainly from U.S. and European sources. However, the result of their conventional equipment’s deployment is not so obvious: we will see significant criticism regarding the efficiency, accuracy and success. This document will examine the deployed military equipment and the experiences of their use.