How did Yemen achieve invincible offensive power in 10 years?
The Al Jazeera news website, quoting some informed sources, writes that the Yaffa drone, which targeted the depth of Tel Aviv in the occupied territories last Friday, is similar to the Samad drone collection that the Yemeni armed forces had previously unveiled. Referring to the 2,000 km route covered by this drone, these sources emphasized that the mentioned drone used new routes to mislead the missile defense systems of the Zionist regime.
Referring to the variety of Yemeni armed forces’ drones, Al Jazeera emphasized that some of these drones are used for monitoring and gathering information, while others are explosive drones. The new Yafa drone is also an advanced version of Samad 1, 2, 3 and 4 drones, all of which are capable of performing various missions.
According to this report, Samad 1 was produced in 2017 and had a range of 150 to 200 km. Samad 2, which was unveiled the following year and its range increased to 1,000 km, is capable of carrying 40-50 kg warheads.
Samad 3 is a long-range drone that can fly more than 1500 km. This UAV is equipped with a conventional camera and advanced infrared cameras for day and night missions and uses advanced equipment to transmit information. The additional load that this drone can carry is about 50 to 70 kg.
Samad 4 was unveiled in 2021 and put the dual missions of intelligence observation and attack on its agenda. Probably, this drone has a range of more than 2000 km and has the feature of avoiding radar.
The generation of Samad drones shows the high experience of Yemen’s Ansarullah in drone technology and shows how Yemenis have moved to the stage of using drones in advanced missions.
Ansarullah has also unveiled the 2,500-kilometer “Vaid” drone, which can be used to attack ground targets from a long distance. This drone can be used as an explosive drone and explode after hitting the target.
With a length of 3.5 meters and a width of 2.5 meters, Vaid is equipped with triangular fins and has a warhead between 30 and 50 kg. The motor is included in the price behind this drone.
Ansarullah’s tactics in drone attacks
Ansarullah has made significant progress in drone warfare and their programs in this regard have two special features. The first feature is long-range attacks. In the development of their UAV capabilities, the Yemenis have a special priority on the long-range of the UAVs, and this issue is clearly visible in the development of their missile capabilities, and as we can see, the range of their missiles started from 250 and 400 km in 2015, and with Barkan missiles in 2016. It reached 800 km and in 2023, the Agil ballistic missile with a range of more than 1000 km was unveiled.
Of course, in 2019, Ansarallah tested its Burkan 3 missile with a range of 1,200 km, but another ballistic missile was used by Ansarallah during the Al-Aqsa storm operation, which probably has a range of between 1,350 and 1,900 km, and its explosive warhead exceeds one ton. Is.
Cruise missiles, including the Quds missile with a range of more than 1,650 kilometers, are among Ansarallah’s other missile capabilities, which make it possible to carry out precise attacks at long distances. This missile is able to fly at low altitudes so as not to be detected and destroyed by radar. It is possible to equip these missiles with a traditional warhead or an existing nuclear warhead, and it can be controlled after firing.
A variety of unbreakable tactics attacks
The second essential feature of the missile and drone program of the Yemeni forces is the variety of offensive products in the air field, which gives them more tactical maneuvering power. The use of diverse and common weapons is a fighting method that is used in the framework of the integration of different weapons to evolve these weapons. For example, the Yemeni forces use drones to attack radar systems before launching a major attack, and then attacks are carried out with ballistic and cruise missiles so that the missile defense systems do not have the power to intercept them despite the diversity in the tactics of each of these weapons. to be In such an operation, a third team can also be used, which is responsible for the mission of monitoring and investigating the effects of a possible impact on the enemy’s equipment.
Yemen’s missile power is invincible
James Rogers, professor of war studies at the University of Southern Denmark, says that joint and diverse attacks are carried out to defeat the advanced defense systems of the enemy, and although there was a possibility of success against these attacks in the past, with the advancement of drones that some international parties such as the Yemeni armed forces and Hezbollah has achieved it and they have the power to reproduce or create innovation and diversity in their production, it has become very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with this war method.
This was one of the most important factors that made Ansarullah focus on the development of its drone force from the beginning and expand its technologies in this field.
The import and production of UAV technology is relatively cheap and easy to access, and it has become a serious challenge for fighters in asymmetric wars.
Rogers emphasized that with the beginning of 2040, currents such as Ansarullah in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon will be able to fully automate their drones using artificial intelligence, and this will make drone threats more serious, and in addition to air drones, will provide ground for land and sea drones. he does.