U.S. Navy Destroyers Strike Houthis with Tomahawk Missiles
CENTCOM stated that a cruise missile attack from U.S. Navy destroyers with BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles hit Houthi command, storage, and production facilities.
Houthi News
Weapon / Missile
Bilateral Relations
POTUS Lifts Saudi Arabia’s Ban
Reuters states that the administration of US President Joe Biden decided to lift the ban on the United States selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia.
Analysis
A Review of Houthis’ New “Hypersonic” Missile
Houthis have released a video of their new missile, dubbed Hadim 2, allegedly a hypersonic missile used against a cargo ship in the Arabian Sea.
Bilateral Relations
The US Sends Fighters to Defend UAE Amid Houthi Attacks
The US has announced the deployment of fighter planes to the UAE in response to missile assaults conducted by Yemen’s Houthi movement against the Gulf state.
Global Defence Trend Brief
- 09:00 NATO pushes allies to fill US air and naval capability gaps - Washington is pressing European allies and Canada to provide more manned and unmanned aircraft plus...
- 09:00 AI-driven drone swarms rise as a new NATO planning priority - NATO officials are warning that AI-enabled drone swarms could reshape warfare within five years, pus...
- 09:00 Counter-drone demand expands beyond battlefields into critical infrastructure - Growing drone incursions around airports, ports, oil facilities and data centres are accelerating de...
- 09:00 Europe’s loyal wingman race becomes a core airpower trend - Collaborative combat aircraft took centre stage at Berlin Airshow 2026 as European companies and air...
- 09:00 Ukraine’s drone combat know-how is becoming an export asset in Asia - Ukrainian drone firms are marketing battlefield-proven systems and swarm concepts in Japan, Taiwan a...
- 09:00 NATO accelerates live testing of counter-drone technologies - Alliance members and industry partners are expanding field trials of drone detection and interceptio...
- 09:00 Hypersonic threats keep driving demand for persistent tracking networks - The spread of hypersonic weapons continues to push Western defence planners toward integrated radar...
- 09:00 Military space resilience shifts toward larger distributed constellations - Armed forces are increasingly favouring proliferated satellite constellations over a small number of...
- 09:00 Autonomous maritime systems gain importance in surveillance and strike planning - Navies are broadening interest in autonomous surface and underwater systems for persistent ISR, infr...
- 09:00 Industrial surge capacity is becoming a decisive defence metric - Across missiles, drones and air defence, governments are placing more weight on production scalabili...
