(Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Yemeni rebels said they attacked a Saudi Aramco oil facility in Jeddah as part of a wave of drone and missile assaults today as a huge cloud of smoke was seen near the Formula One venue in the city. Smoke billows from an oil storage facility in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on March. Saudi officials downplayed the damage, but it was a propaganda coup for the Houthis. Last month, three Samad-3 drones struck the Saudi Aramco 2222.SE refinery in Riyadh, starting a fire and raising a column of black smoke visible from where the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was held. and France announced that they were sending advanced fighters and other hardware to the UAE to help defend against Houthi attacks after drones hit Abu Dhabi international airport and killed three people. A combination of Houthi drones and missiles set fire to the Abqaiq oil processing facility in 2019, causing a blip in crude oil prices. Most Houthi drones are shot down, but some still get through, despite the efforts of batteries of U.S.-supplied Patriot missiles and F-15 jets. They are made from commercial components including engines from Germany or China and other parts from sources as far afield as Ireland and Korea, with a simple, locally-built airframe. Captured examples showed Samad was essentially a scaled-up Qasef with a 15-foot wingspan and a smaller (40 lb.) warhead, giving increased range – claimed to be over 1,200 miles (and over 1,500 miles in the latest version). Many more strikes followed and it was soon apparent the Samad was very real. A captured Samad drone used by Houthi forces, a garage-built kamikaze drone able to carry out.
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