In a televised statement on Sunday, Yemeni military spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree confirmed that the strike was carried out with a hypersonic missile dubbed “Palestine-2.”
“The operation successfully achieved its objective,” Saree said, adding that the attack triggered air raid sirens, disrupted flights, and “halted airport activity” in the occupied territories.
The Yemeni spokesman said the strike was part of a wider campaign in response to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, now in its 22nd month, and in retaliation for Israeli air raids on Yemen.
Probably true. Although there has been a ton of interest in hypersonics recently for obvious reasons. Fills up half the R&D grants/proposals for DoD
Yes. It has become a buzzword. Outlets, governments, and everyone else are all calling cold war missiles “hypersonic” to make them sound like the latest big bad when they’re just ballistic missiles. That same is true for “kamikaze drones” that are better described as cruise missiles.