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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) unveiled on June 26 a new ballistic missile that was used two days earlier to target the Israel-linked Liberian-flagged MSC Sarah V merchant vessel in the Arabian Sea.
Brigade General Yahya Sarea, the group’s military spokesperson, said in a brief statement that the missile, dubbed Hatem-2, is “a homemade hypersonic missile that possesses advanced technology, is accurate in hitting, and reaches long ranges.”
Video footage released by the Houthis showed the launch of the missile. The video’s text claims it is a solid-fuel missile with an intelligent control system and that multiple generations of the missile exist with various effective ranges.
The attack on the MSC Sarah V was confirmed by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a detachment of the Royal Navy, which said that a vessel was attacked on June 24 but that its crew is safe after an explosion near its hull. The attack’s location indicates it is one of the longest-range anti-ship strikes launched by the Houthis so far.
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.
The missile unveiled by the Houthis appears to resemble the Iranian-made Fattah-1, which Tehran claims can travel at an effective speed of up to Mach 15, or 15 times the speed of sound. The missile has a range of 1,400 kilometers.
Last March, the Sputnik news agency reported that the Houthis successfully tested a solid-fuel hypersonic ballistic missile that can reach speeds of up to Mach 8.
The Houthis, who are backed by Iran, have attacked dozens of vessels affiliated with Israel or owned by the United States and the UK in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea since November in response to the Israeli war and siege on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip.
In addition, the group launched dozens of drones and missiles at the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat and shot down six American-made combat drones over Yemen and nearby waters.
Since January, the U.S. and the UK have carried out hundreds of strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in an attempt to deter the group and degrade its offensive capabilities, but to no avail.
The Hatem-2 hypersonic ballistic missile is the third weapon to be unveiled by the Houthis in recent weeks. On June 6, the group unveiled the Palestine solid-fuel ballistic missile. And on June 21, it unveiled an uncrewed suicide boat dubbed Tufan-1.
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guys in flip-flops have hyper-sonic missiles and “the exceptional nation” hasn’t. kim is laughing.
so the guys in flip flops only ever tell the truth??? ……..there is something called war propaganda. it is something that can be compared to lies because it is nothing but lies to make yourself look bigger than you are.
us hollywood propaganda make them believe they can do everything and get away with everything. but. the world has other plans with this filthy neo-colonial country.
iran have it, so “ansar allah” could have it too, it’s obvious. anyway they are able to damage vessels and ships with cruise and ballistic missiles, uavs. hyper-sonic missile is not the big boost, because their stock of ordinary tools is quite big, if they are launching something everyday. but it’s very important symbol and warning to aggressors.
it was a combined attack, and i think a remote-controlled explosive boat did the most damage. i didn’t even think of a remote boat until they did it. the houthi are clever. you have to be when you’re a little guy facing a huge monster.
the houthis, hamas, hezbollah have got balls of steel. real men.
shlomo is running whingeing to big sugar daddy uncle sam.
what a contrast to the pathetic, corrupt, quisling whore cocksuckers running most of the arab states.
and the us govt is the biggest liar of all. if our govt says something you can win most bets by claiming the opposite. our governmedia doesn’t even try to make good lies anymore.
“the exceptional nation” may also mean, that the muricans are exceptionally dumb.
for me “exceptional” in that meaning = “chauvinist”. when obama says about exceptional state it sounds like “uber alles”. exceptionalism is form of pathological superiority that justifies any crime. “i am a trembling creature or whether i have the right?” as raskol’nikov thought before the murder in dostoevskiy’s “crime and punishment”. he did nothing to have the right, because he’s young stupid student. us have the same age as the grand theater in moskva, young as raskolnikov.
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target a carrier, i want to see one sink
aircraft carriers are very well protected……they are also protected against war propaganda missiles that supposedly fly at mach 10000000000. in addition, an aircraft carrier is powered by 2 nuclear reactors and the destruction of such a carrier would be an environmental disaster. stop repeating this propaganda nonsense and use your brain.
so, you’re saying the carrier can’t be sunk or damaged with a missile scoring a bulls eye?
whoever sinks a carrier will probably be nuked of the face of earth while the rest of the world will hurry to show the usa their unwavering support to not be next.
that’s what the west wants you to think. but if the usa nukes anyone it’s not going to go well for them.
this isn’t the 80s. the us can’t handle afghanistan, ukraine or yemen, i really don’t think larger nations fear the us anymore. drones and missiles are the great equalisers and the us threw their headstart out the window to go invade iraq. they showed the world their order of battle and they’re generals got where they are through nepotism so they can’t invent new strategies. the pax america died an unlamented death and the world will be a better place without the “rules based order”.
i took one four-star general to win wwii. now the pentagon has 40 and they’re all politicians, not real generals.
they said the same about battleships before ww2.
yeah, and look what happened to ‘force z’.
excuse me-the eisenhower retreated back to base after being hit by a missile or two.
thats a huge aircraft carrier running away.
you have no clue, this is war do you seriously think generals are going to sit down and ponder environmental disasters? nord stream showed there are no thoughts given to the environment
but the pentagon does ponder gay marines. orders from the top.
funny how it fled so fast and there are no pictures of it. if it was undamaged there’d be current propaganda pics all over. the only pic was n old pre-attack photo the admiral put up. it’s easy to see when you are being bullshitted.
super duper missiles….huthi version. politicians and their owners should be used as warheads, then there would be no more wars in the world.
lets see hatem rain over haifa. destroy all their refineries. put the little zionist scam out of business shmizness
haifa, shmaifa.
made in rusia or made in iran. bad news for nato.
china and dprk have them too, so…
how about that, the houthis got their own hypersonic missile, the zionists are in deep shit now
poder e vitória aos invencíveis houthíes!
won’t be long now when we hear about hit and sunk aircraft carriers and others, couldn’t happen to a bunch of more than deserving loser zionists
a true hypersonic weapon doesn’t require a ballistic arc. the nomenclanture has been mistaken by those who have english as a second language.
it’s not arc, it’s a first stage, a booster, which is dropped away after acceleration. “sarmat” has the same way to deliver the “vanguard” glider to the space, at least 3 units in one time.
it must be an aircraft carrier.
everyone thinks the houthi missiles all come from iran. maybe not. they survived blistering attacks from the us and saudi arabia for years. they seem pretty resourceful. there are smart people in every nation. the north vietnamese and afghans also beat our vast military complex with resourcefulness.