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Yemen releases new photos of their "Palestine-2" hypersonic ballistic missile which hit Israel yesterday
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Incredible things are happening in Yemen 
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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Yemen has hypersonic missiles before the US does?
multipolar world let's goooo
Not really, it's "just" a ballistic missile that reaches a hypersonic velocity at some point in its flight, likely in the terminal phase.
Russia did get a "true" hypersonic weapon before the US though, in the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile.
From visual inspection and the statement from Ansar Allah, this appears to be the combination of two different Iranian ballistic missile designs. Quite ingenious. I'll post further analysis in the news megathread and link it here shortly.
What’s the difference between a “true” hypersonic missile and this? Genuine question, I know nothing about missiles
The speed is the easy part, travelling in a straight line. The difficult part is getting the rocket to manoeuvre at high speed.