🇾🇪 ❌ 🇸🇦 | Collapse of Saudi Arabia’s most heavily fortified defense system:

Explosions erupted again in the Saudi capital on Saturday evening, for the third time within hours, amid thick columns of smoke. What does this mean for a city considered the Kingdom’s most heavily defended and home to major US military bases?

As the sun approached sunset today, a massive black cloud covered the sky over Riyadh, the political capital and most important economic center of the Kingdom. The cloud was reportedly caused by strikes targeting oil storage tanks near Riyadh Airport and other locations. Its size was such that it blocked daylight, turning the sky over Riyadh into an early night.

Although this was not the first time explosions had been heard in Riyadh during the previous 12 hours, with the city having already experienced two waves of aerial attacks, according to Saudi Civil Defense, which announced the activation of warning sirens in Riyadh and the nearby city of Al Kharj twice, the most notable feature of this latest wave was that residents reportedly did not see interceptor missiles being launched or hear warning sirens. Instead, they only witnessed explosions followed by heavy black smoke.

According to the report, these developments indicate that the defensive system deployed to protect the Kingdom’s most important capital has effectively collapsed. Videos circulating online allegedly showed Yemeni forces successfully carrying out significant strikes during the first wave, including against air-defense and early-warning systems.

Some of the most prominent footage reportedly showed missiles, believed to be hypersonic, passing through interceptor missiles before hitting their targets with high precision. The report argues that this indicates the first wave of Yemeni strikes was aimed at disrupting Saudi Arabia’s defensive infrastructure at multiple levels.

Saudi Arabia may have spent years deploying various defense systems to protect Riyadh, given the concentration of its military, financial, and political institutions there. However, the continued attacks, reportedly occurring without warning during this latest wave, indicate according to the report that the city has become exposed to further Yemeni attacks, which could continue in the coming hours and potentially target additional locations.

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