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Great article. So, it appears that this "drone" attack was actually an attack by an ultra-advanced cruise missile. A missile with higher range than the limits
by credit_guy 7y ago
Great article.
So, it appears that this "drone" attack was actually an attack by an ultra-advanced cruise missile. A missile with higher range than the limits of the INF treaty (from which the US has pulled recently).
According to this article, the distance between northern Yemen and the attacked facility is more than 1250 km. For comparison this is roughly the distance between New York and Chicago, or between Paris and Rome.
- caf 7y agoThere doesn't seem to be a case for "ultra-advanced", it's more a demonstration on how well you can do without needing "ultra-advanced" technology. Note that the INF treaty was bilateral (it only bound its two signatories, Russia and the US).
- credit_guy 7y agoThis paragraph is somewhere in the middle of the article so maybe it's easy to miss: "The TJ100 however not only has much lower thrust than the original KH-55 engine but also is just your regular old turbojet. This leads to some questions about range. Both the missile’s smaller size and its more fuel-hungry engine make it seem unlikely it’s range would be anywhere close to the the Soumar’s/Hoveyzeh’s range of 1350km " So no, the attacks did not happen with the Quds-1 missile, but rather with a much more advanced one. A missile in the same class as the Tomahawk, or the KH-55. These missiles are not garage-level technology.
- caf 7y ago...or it wasn't launched from Northern Yemen.