American newspaper: Houthis displayed a dangerous torpedo that uses American technology
Exclusive Follow-up – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
American superiority in arms manufacturing in the world remains a significant difference between it and other countries worldwide. This difference is dependent on its ability to preserve the secrets of strategic arms manufacturing in particular.
It seems that this superiority and difference are now strongly threatened because others are also engaged in military manufacturing, striving to fill the gap, surpass the difference, and move beyond where the Americans have stopped. Among those who have taken serious steps in this field are the armed Yemeni forces, which have proven in a few years that they are a force to be reckoned with and have shown steadfastness in their progress in this field, enabling them to confront the US and even force it to flee from the battlefield in the Red and Arabian Seas, reaching the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.
This was confirmed by Business Insider, which reported that military analysts stated that Sana’a’s forces managed to manufacture a weapon resembling a US sea drone that Sana’a’s forces seized years ago.
Analysts said that what they described as Houthi rebels in Yemen showcased a new torpedo, which they said looks familiar, although the Houthis named it “Al-Qar’iah,” which they displayed last Monday in a maritime exercise, but it matched captured US weaponry, a naval drone that was taken whole in 2018.
Analysts stated that this resemblance aligns with other examples of US equipment being reverse engineered into the arsenals of its foes.
Martin Kelly of the UK advisory firm EOS Risk Group said the torpedo could be derived from a US REMUS 600 drone lost in 2018.
While experts attributed this development witnessed by Sana’a’s forces to the Iranians, who managed to copy American technologies and send them to Sana’a, other experts have not ruled out that Sana’a was the one who copied these technologies and managed to innovate in reverse engineering American technology without the need for Iran.
Experts told the newspaper that Sana’a is already using a variety of one-way attack drones, naval drones, and anti-ship missiles to target commercial ships and US warships in the Red Sea.
According to experts, although the torpedo appears very small, to the extent that it can’t pose a significant problem for a heavily armored American warship or destroy it, it can cause significant flooding and critical damage if it hits in the right direction and manner, disable essential systems, or impair the ship’s ability to maneuver, forcing it out of action, impacting fleet operations and morale.