A Pentagon official says he is “shocked” by Yemen’s sophisticated weapons and expresses concern about the accelerated pace of Ansarolá’s military advance.
“I’m an engineer and a physicist, and I’ve been around missiles my entire career,” U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante said at the Future of Defense summit on Wednesday in Washington, this reported. Friday the American news website Axios.
He described Ansarolá’s arsenal of sophisticated weapons as “amazing.” “What I have seen done by the Houthis in the last six months is simply shocking,” he added, referring to the important technological advances achieved by the movement in a short time.
The head of the US Department of Defense assured that the Yemeni popular movement Ansarolá “is becoming terrifying.”
According to AxiosNow, Ansarolá has ballistic and cruise missiles in its weapons inventory, capable of hitting targets with great precision.
Since last November 2023, Yemeni forces have launched more than 1,000 missiles and drones against the interests of the Israeli regime, in response to the brutal military campaign that the Zionist regime has unleashed in Gaza and Lebanon since October of last year.
Ansarollah has targeted ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea and the strategic Bab El-Mandeb Strait, and has even sent some to the bottom of the sea. The group has also carried out several successful missile and drone operations in the occupied territories, especially in Tel Aviv.
In recent months, the Yemeni Armed Forces have displayed long-range hypersonic missiles, advanced drones and unmanned surface vehicles, among other weapons, which have been used to attack Israeli targets and their interests in the area.
Yemen has reiterated that it will cease operations until Israeli aggression on Gaza and Lebanon is stopped and the siege imposed on the Palestinian enclave is lifted.
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