Senior U.S. Official Acknowledges Yemen’s Possession of New Advanced Weapons
In a significant development this week, a senior U.S. official acknowledged the possession of new, high-quality weapons by the Yemeni armed forces. This confirmation aligns with the recent declarations made by the leader of the revolution, Sayyid Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, about the substantial advancement in Yemen’s military capabilities and the achievement of exceptional milestones.
The New York Times, in a report published last Friday, quoted a senior U.S. official stating that the armed forces had conducted a test in which a medium-range ballistic missile was launched. Military definitions classify medium-range ballistic missiles as those with ranges between 1,000 kilometers and more than 5,500 kilometers. This suggests that Yemen’s military capabilities have reached significant levels of development.
This statement corroborates the announcements made by the leader of the revolution, Sayyid Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, in several speeches over the past weeks about achieving significant advancements in developing Yemen’s military capabilities. The leader confirmed that existing missiles and drones have been developed to be more effective, and new weapons have been introduced that were used in several recent military operations, surprising the American enemy.
The leader of the revolution recently announced the achievement of military accomplishments that place Yemen among a limited number of countries in the world, implying the possession of rare, exceptional quality weapons.
Last Thursday, the leader of the revolution revealed a major surprise when he announced the expansion of naval operations targeting ships associated with the Israeli enemy to the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope route in South Africa. This indirectly reveals that the armed forces possess high-quality weapons capable of reaching large ranges and hitting moving maritime targets.
The leader of the revolution’s announcement also indicates that the armed forces possess exceptional intelligence capabilities to cover a vast operational theater extending from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean directly. Especially since the nature of naval operations requires precise knowledge of the details and data of ships and their identities, a field in which the Yemeni armed forces have proven great success in the past period.
The acknowledgment by the American official of the Yemeni armed forces’ possession of new weapons represents a clear admission of the abject failure of the American-British aggression on Yemen in influencing Yemen’s military capabilities. Instead, this aggression has rebounded inversely on the enemies who had set a declared goal for their strikes on Yemen, which is to limit Sana’a’s capabilities.
A senior American official had previously admitted in a statement to CNN that the Yemeni armed forces continually surprise the American military, confirming that “the United States has no idea what weapons Yemen possesses,” a fact also confirmed by American officials to the Financial Times recently.