Any ballistic missile is a hypersonic missile, if you stretch the definition of hypersonic to the point of meaninglessness.
It seems the only real definition of “hypersonic” outside of speed, is that the missile is capable of performing evasive maneuvers during the terminal phase while at hypersonic velocity. Otherwise yea, every ballistic missile is hypersonic. I have to doubt that this system actually qualifies, you never know though, technology proliferates I guess.
Yes, I have read the definition is fuzzy, allowing for the possibility that they are lying, half of war is propaganda. On the counter, Yemen probably does have a true hypersonic or are very close to getting one. Their missiles program is decades old and goes back to when South Yemen was part of the Soviet camp. If they don’t have it now, they will have it before the war is over. Both Iran and Russia have hypersonic weapons, and I bet one of them if not both already sent them the designs for the Yemenis to locally assemble them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Yemen’s Houthi rebel group said on Wednesday that it targeted a Liberian-flagged ship in the Arabian Sea with a “homemade hypersonic missile,” saying it unveiled the weapon for the first time.
“It is a homemade hypersonic missile that possesses advanced technology, is accurate in hitting, and reaches long ranges,” wrote Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sare’e in a post on X.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, run by the British Royal Navy, reported that a ship was attacked on Monday but that its crew is safe after an explosion near its hull.
تفاصيل صاروخ باليستي فرط صوتي من نوع (حاطم2) - الذي يكشف عنه للمرة الأولى ومشاهد إطلاقه على سفينة (MSC SARAH V) الإسرائيلية في البحر العربي pic.twitter.com/PP6Mzun19K
These launches happened about three months after the Houthis were reported in March by Russian state media to have a hypersonic missile that could reach speeds of up to Mach 8.
Notably, Yemen’s latest launch occurred as the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group left the region on Saturday after defending the area for about eight months.
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