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Originally Posted by ET2SN
The missile(S) launched from Yemen may not have been targeted on Israel. 
Yemen has been chucking short range ballistics and drones at Saudi Arabia for a while now. I'd wait a bit before I assumed they were aimed at Israel or north eastern Egypt. I don't think Yemen has that kind of range.
Of course, Israel and Egypt were supposed to normalize relations so maybe they were pay-back or a warning to Egypt?  |
Yemen missiles has that kind of range. The liquid-propellant missile that the Houthis has is the Toufan, which appears to be a rebranded Iranian Ghadr. The Toufan could have a 1,350–1,950 km range, potentially enough to place Israel within striking distance. In the past, the Houthis have made threats against Eilat and Tel Aviv. Iran continues to upgrade its long-range precision weaponry and, at least until recently, helped its local Yemeni ally Ansarullah to do the same with its own arsenal. With Iranian assistance, the Houthis have managed to build up an array of precision-guided rockets, ballistic missiles, land-attack cruise missiles and anti-shipping capabilities in a remarkably short period of time.