2024-06-23 18:10:42
The Yemeni terrorist motion Ansar Allah (Houthis) offered its new unmanned boat “Toufan-1”, designed to destroy each stationary and shifting sea targets. In accordance with the rebels, the boat was designed and produced by them independently.
The Iranian company IRNA reported that Toufan-1 is supplied with a warhead weighing 150 kg, has excessive velocity, maneuverability and stealth, reaching speeds of as much as 35 nautical miles per hour.
Houthi-controlled Al-Masirah TV reported that the Toufan 1 was utilized in an assault on the Greek service provider ship Tutor on June 12. Because of the assault, the crew of a bulk service carrying Russian coal was evacuated to the US Navy guided-missile cruiser Philippine Sea, and the ship itself was left adrift within the Crimson Sea, the place it sank three days later.
Yemen’s Houthis recurrently assault civilian business ships within the Crimson Sea. Thus, the rebels specific help for the terrorist group Hamas in its struggle towards Israel.
The Houthis have acknowledged their intention to assault any maritime vessels which have ties to the Jewish state. Nonetheless, these ships that don’t enter Israeli ports additionally come underneath assault from the rebels.
The US has assembled a coalition to counter the Houthi aggression, which incorporates Britain and different Washington allies. US and British troops are systematically focusing on Houthi bases, however the rebels proceed to hold out assaults.
Earlier, Cursor wrote that new particulars of the Houthi assault on the Tutor ship, which belonged to Greece, had turn into identified.