Houthi Militants Deploy a Drone Sub for the First Time

Published on February 19, 2024

In this 2022 file image, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unveils a new model of torpedo-shaped drone submersible. Iran is the provider of advanced weaponry to the Houthi movement (IRGC file image)

In this 2022 file image, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unveiled a new model of torpedo-shaped drone submersible. Iran provides advanced weaponry to the Houthi movement (IRGC file image)

Since the Houthi rebel faction began attacking Red Sea shipping last fall, U.S. forces have encountered and engaged a wide variety of anti-ship weaponry in and around Yemen. Shoot-downs and on-the-ground destruction of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, airborne drones and suicide drone boats have become a matter of routine. Over the weekend, U.S. forces identified and destroyed a new class of weaponry in Yemen: a drone submersible, known in the trade as an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV). 

The new sighting occurred during routine self-defense strikes over the weekend. Overnight Friday, U.S. forces hit an anti-ship cruise missile and one suicide drone boat within Yemen. On Saturday afternoon, Central Command hit three more anti-ship cruise missiles, one more drone boat and - for the first time - one unmanned underwater vessel (UUV), or drone sub. 

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