The Yemeni Ansar Allah have showcased increasingly advanced weaponry, including missiles with capabilities described as “amazing,” according to the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer.

Speaking at an Axios-hosted defense event, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante expressed alarm over the sophistication of these weapons.

The YAF have been employing drones and missiles for over a year to disrupt shipping routes in waters off Yemen as they impose a blockade on the Israeli occupation over its genocide in Gaza and aggression on Lebanon.

“I’m an engineer and a physicist, and I’ve been around missiles my whole career,” LaPlante said at the Future of Defense summit in Washington, DC. “What I’ve seen of what Ansar Allah has done in the last six months is shocking.”

In a recent operation, two US Navy destroyers were attacked while navigating the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the critical waterway linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

Al Mayadeen

Those who commit, enable, or support to commit a genocide should be locked up in the deepest dungeon.

Let us put them to shame.