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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen had successfully tested a hypersonic missile, Sputnik reported on March 14, citing a source linked to the Iranian-backed group.
Hypersonic missiles travel and maneuver at least five times faster than the speed of sound at low altitudes in the atmosphere, which makes them extremely difficult to track and intercept.
“Missile forces of the movement have successfully tested a missile that can reach speeds of up to Mach 8 [over 9,800 kilometers per hours] and is powered by solid fuel,” the unnamed source told the Russian news agency. “Yemen plans to begin manufacturing it for use in attacks in the Red and Arabian Seas and the Gulf of Aden, as well as against targets in Israel.”
Such a missile would reach Israel, which is more than 3,200 kilometers away from Yemen, in just ten minutes. Israel’s existing anti-missile systems were not designed to deal with such a threat.
The source also told Sputnik that the Houthis had upgraded their existing missiles and drones to carry more powerful warheads.
The report came after the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in the early morning that the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Yemen in the direction of the Gulf of Aden a day earlier. The command said in a statement that the missile did not impact any vessels and there were no injuries or damage reported.
In the same statement, CENTCOM announced that its forces had struck four drones and a surface-to-air missile in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen.
“It was determined these weapons presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region,” the command said. “These actions are taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S. Navy and merchant vessels.”
The Houthis have targeted dozens of Israel-affiliated vessels and others owned by the U.S. and the United Kingdom in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November 19 in response to the ongoing Israeli war and siege on the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
The group may have managed to develop a hypersonic ballistic missile with help from Iran. Last year, Iran unveiled its first hypersonic missile, the Fattah.
The U.S. and UK launched hundreds of strikes against Yemen in recent months in an attempt to deter the Houthis. Nevertheless, the group’s attacks are increasing and its military capabilities appear to be growing.
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congratulaions
this is mocow ‘s doing. don’t make it any one other’s one.
you know, i’ve never been to mocow, and i suspect it was iran, cause russians certainly don’t want the us or uk to gain access to that tech, and russian hypersonics are designed and integrated in to their mobile launcher forces and air launched platforms, of which, the houthis have none. that said, the houthis will be able to take out ships with it like iran did to the kurdish mossad agent in iraq…boom.
love to moscow yemen iran china and any good man who seeks to destroy zionism, israel, jews, lgbtq usa, etc..
we no sonic only hyper dumb
the uk has hypersonic gauss cannons, but still in development, they have completed work on their dragon’s fire air defense laser weapon system, which is probably useless in bad weather, and the idiots who funded it forgot that the uk is almost always under bad weather, which is no problem for the russian hypersonic missile systems. hyper dumb, like you pointed out.
emp will render laser weapon useless and it’s also useless against the poseidon nuke that is underwater
wooty for the houthis… this will be a game changer, specially if those missiles can range out to the criminal cartel air bases located in cyprus, and israel. if not, we can only hope they can deter the yankee boat gang in the red sea from playing anymore stupid games without suffering significant loses.
what a humiliation for the us, if sandal guys are really managed to make a hypersonic missile! (probably they have got some help, but anyway…)
yeah in a garage, with couple of tools and washing machine chips
still better than the multi billion program the us had and kept failing
love to yemen death to usa and all zionists
they assembled it in a garage and it was good at first attempt .. same as bill gates with microsoft … suckerberg with facebook
yeah, when you ruminate on the intelligence of bill gates, it’s obvious that he invented nothing.
sadly this will only increase the cost of goods globally. thanks booties!!!
maybe tell your government to stop helping saudi arabia kill yemeni children in their beds and end the genocide of the palestinian people who are being terrorized by zionist occupation fores.
lol you clown, say thank you to the zios and the usa for the actual situation and for all other conflicts in the whole region since decades.
the us government and its organs, particularly the cia and the pentagon lie about everything. they never tell the truth about anything. my guess is this is a setup for a coming false flag. blow up one or more of our own carriers and blame the houthis ???
i forgot that what makes products more expensive is our stupid green agenda, i shouldn’t eat so much sugar.
absolutely awesome houthis! support you from us and a!
houthis stronger then u.s army trannies!
to by šlo. trvalo to síce ale dúfam, že čoskoro budú nasadené, aby sme mali možnosť vidieť úspech, ktorý dosiahli husiovia. svetu mier!!!
this is fuckin awesome
things would be easier if israel weren’t in the process of slowly starving civilians, peppering children with shrapnel, mutilating their bodies, murdering their families in front of them, and forcing children and civilians to be amputated w/o anesthetics and then slowly starved anyway. it’s really pathetic that it’s come to this at all. the blackmailed child rape government will now carry on offering aid to israel for such crimes and bombing yemen anyway.
the hardest times create the greatest men.
great men are born great, their every reaction pre-programmed. the only thing that changes are the circumstances of their life. all of those things can be learned by great men from learning history and having an imagination.
america’s “all options are on the table” bounces back.
the us government and its organs, particularly the cia and the pentagon lie about everything. they never tell the truth about anything. my guess is this is a setup for a coming false flag. blow up one or more of our own carriers and blame the houthis ???
it’s a premeditated global collapse operated and planned by lucifer and the freemasonic bitches in basically every country. they all meet together and give their handshakes, babylonian/egyptian secret signs and go through the same rites to make sure they are the right sort of ammoral person. the war is partially real, but scripted and ran by the people who they have been installing in various countries for centuries in some cases. notice the ukraine war being mostly depopulation.
our hillbilly scientist hypersuck test fail—our military ranked 129 after taliban
uncle joe, the pentagon’s budget and all the drug money laundered by the cia is just enough to change the sex of the soldiers.
it would be great to know the total cost uncle sam has spent firing $2 million missiles to take out $5,000 drones. it has to be approaching $1 billion.
i may oppose nato but i oppose the islamic world more, the way they behave in north america is unacceptable, and if we use the pretext we had for invasion of iraq, these hypersonic missiles completely justify an equal response from nato, at least they could be useful instead of fighting russia.
giving hypersonic missiles to yemen is like teaching a psychotic chimpanzee how to use a revolver and letting it run around shooting people.
israel is the psychotic chimpanzee of the region. only modern government to be committing such crimes. with the imaging technology they have, they know exactly how many children they are about to maim and murder with every bomb and missile. they torture hospital staff for the hell of it, and tell them to leave safely and then gun them down with snipers.
wrong fat buddy, jews (pigs) and britards (faggots) are the poison of the world no the arabs, btw nato don´t have hypersonic missiles because they are lazy and useless just like us corrupt military.