Mostly Iranian or tweaks and updates old Chinese rockets and even Soviet rockets. Number of missiles the rebels have Houthis in their bases Yemen It’s an undisclosed secret, but the US Navy knows its classes. And they exist 12 types to be opposed in the anti-missile interception of the Aegis defense system have been identified from mission ships Guardian of Prosperity…or to neutralize in their silos and batteries ground attacks since two weeks.
According to reports from naval forces operating in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region (including a Spanish frigate in the Atalanta Counter-Piracy Mission), the Houthis’ anti-ship rockets include: cruise missiles (equipped with wings for flight) and ballistic missiles (ballistic trajectory launched at high altitudes).
In the first phase, there was a phase of the Houthi rebellion in which the Houthi rebellion was the most intense and almost the only one. rubezSoviet manufacturing and 80 kilometers range. These were the missiles that the Yemeni armed forces had before the civil war began in that country.
However, with the beginning of the rebellion, Yemen’s Shiite-oriented fundamentalist militias Significant stockpile of flying bombs from Iranto the point of now possessing a considerable arsenal United States of America And United Kingdom They are trying to destroy.
Evolution
In 2014, the first Iranian donation, confirmed by periodic analyzes of Military Balance, a reference publication in the field of weapons and military equipment, consisted of old Soviet-made SAM ballistic missiles converted into models. Mohit For Iran.
Nine years later, last September, on the ninth anniversary of the coup that sparked the war, Houthis display long-range ballistic missiles at military parade Typhoon (also called Flood), a variant of the Iranian Ghadr missiles with a range of up to 1,900 kilometers.
Now, the most popular Houthis’ ballistic rockets may be: AsefIt is an Iranian converted version of the Fateh missile, which hits targets 300 kilometers away.
Rockets considered the most dangerous by experts due to accuracy/range balance (also the fewest in the Houthi arsenal) SayadA Yemeni work based on the tuning of Paveh scored by Iran. Both this model and a later model, Jerusalem 4 And Jerusalem Z-0It has an autonomy of 800 kilometers in radar guided flight.
The Houthis also have Chinese rockets, such as the C-801, that have been refurbished by the rebels. Seizure of Yemen’s arsenals before the war and turned into a rocket Mendeb 1for attacks on ships close to the coastline (no more than 20 miles).
modern systems
The current wave of attacks on commercial ships bound for Israel or other destinations, Red Sea It is not carried out only with missiles. Houthis also throw suicide drones against ships. In this area of expertise, Yemeni Shiite rebel militias have two clearly Iranian-inspired models: Samad various degrees (2, 3 and 4) and unityBased on Shahed drone. However, the Ayatollah regime was equipped with an autonomous device that could reach targets 2,500 kilometers away.
Houthi spokesmen stated the following on various occasions: own engineers for maintenance the use of these unmanned aerial vehicles and the tuning and modernization of missiles. As the spokesmen of the Houthi militias admitted, the unit of technicians will have received training in Russia, Syria, Iran and North Korea in the last five years.
Between 2016 and 2023 alone, American, French, Saudi, Australian and British navies blocked the road. 17 major arms shipments Iran, according to the census conducted by the Middle East Institute.
Not all of these shipments contained missiles alone (among them were models not specifically mentioned here). anti-tank rockets), also very modern technology. Important in these shipments are some of the guidance systems required for the modernization of any old rocket.
This gift equips ballistic missiles Burkan 2H, Mayun, Al Bahr and Faleq, same as rocket Al Quiam from Iran. All of them have a radius of action of more than 1000 kilometers.
This proliferation of anti-ship rockets in the Strategic Bosphorus Bab al-Mandeb It led to an increasing and intense militarization of the Red Sea, as noted in the forecast report published by the Middle East Institute on October 20, as soon as the attacks on civilian ships began. It seems that Operation Guardian of Welfare, which a group of EU countries now want to participate in, will not last long.