The first launch of a hypersonic missile! "Husai" this slipper army! Where did you learn from?

In a recent high-profile military operation, the Houthis successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile called Hadim II, and although this was the first time that the Houthis used such an advanced weapon in actual combat, the results were not satisfactory, and the missile failed to hit the target accurately and deviated from the preset trajectory. Despite this, the Houthis claim that the Hadim-2 missile is the product of their own development, and one cannot help but wonder how the Houthis have mastered such sophisticated technology. And how did they build facilities capable of producing such missiles? In the absence of a clear source of technology, how the Houthis independently developed a hypersonic missile has become the focus of attention and has left many unsolved mysteries.

It's hard to imagine the difficulty of developing hypersonic missile technology that the United States can't achieve. Since China's official deployment of the DF-17 hypersonic weapon, the technology has suddenly become a hot topic in the global technology field, followed by Russia's claim that it has mastered the technology trend, North Korea is not to be outdone by showing off its hypersonic missiles, and even the radical Houthi militant group has sprung up to develop and deploy similar equipment. However, it is embarrassing that the United States has not officially installed any hypersonic missiles so far, and in sharp contrast, European countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom have also failed to make major breakthroughs in this key technology field. Theoretically, whether taking into account France, Germany or the United Kingdom, countries with deep accumulation in the field of military industry, have not yet been able to put hypersonic missiles into real combat. This contrast makes one wonder why the development of hypersonic missiles lags behind some seemingly technologically weak countries.

Although the "Dagger" and "Zircon" hypersonic missile technology routes developed by Russia are significantly different from those of the mainland, they are undoubtedly scientific and technological achievements independently developed by their respective countries, reflecting their advanced strength in the field of military technology, and the progress made by Iran and North Korea in hypersonic missile technology has attracted attention, and it is surprising that Iran and North Korea's hypersonic missiles actually use a waverider warhead design that is very similar to that of the mainland's DF-17. The discovery has sparked speculation about the origin of these two cutting-edge military technologies. Today, with the high development of global military technology, the transfer and reference of technology have become more and more complicated, which has also made the competition between countries in military technology more intense.

Since the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria, Iran has swiftly retaliated by firing hypersonic missiles at Israel. This not only demonstrates Iran's strength in the field of military technology, but also marks the first time that this missile has been used in real combat, and the United States has officially recognized Iran's hypersonic missile technology, which undoubtedly further confirms Iran's progress in the field of military technology. There is no definitive evidence as to the origin of hypersonic missile technology in Iran and North Korea. But in any case, the progress of these countries in hypersonic missile technology deserves our attention. Against the backdrop of increasing global military-technology competition, countries are striving to upgrade their military capabilities to counter possible security threats.

People are often curious about how Iran acquires hypersonic missile technology. In the case of China's DF-17, the design of its waverider warhead is not easy to achieve with a radical aerodynamic design alone. In fact, the research and development of this missile is inseparable from the strong support of the hypersonic wind tunnel group, because only such a wind tunnel can truly simulate the flight state of the hypersonic missile, in the world, there are very few countries with the ability to develop hypersonic wind tunnel groups, and China, the United States, France, and Russia are among the leaders. For example, South Korea also relied on U.S. wind tunnel resources to determine its aerodynamic shape design when developing the KF-21 supersonic fighter.

Aerodynamic design is a complex and delicate process, lacking sufficient experience and theoretical basis, it is difficult to obtain the aerodynamic characteristics of various aircraft or missiles through simple calculations, and it is necessary to conduct thousands of hours of testing in wind tunnel groups, collect a large amount of aerodynamic data, and after repeated corrections, in order to find the optimal solution, considering these, it is extremely difficult for Iran to independently complete the research and development of hypersonic missiles. Unless they have access to complete technical information from third-party sources, they will be able to accomplish this task almost impossible. This has led to a lot of speculation and discussion about the origin of Iran's hypersonic missile technology.

In addition to the all-important aerodynamic design, the power system of the hypersonic missile also demonstrates a high level of scientific and technological content. In general, land-based vehicle-mounted hypersonic missiles generally use a two-stage propulsion system. In the first stage, a rocket engine with propulsion is used to speed up the missile until its speed is reduced to less than Mach 5; Subsequently, when the speed of the missile exceeds Mach five, its power plant will switch to the second stage, the scramjet engine. While North Korea and Iran have shown that they are capable of developing rocket engines, they have yet to make a major breakthrough in the development of advanced scramjet engines.

On the other hand, the Houthis do not have the ability to produce rocket engines on their own, and they also struggle to develop scramjet engines on their own, and the source of the core components of the Houthis' claimed hypersonic missile technology may be obtained from external sources, and the origin of the core components of the Houthi claims to hypersonic missile technology is still unresolved. If this is the case, then the US Navy, and in particular the USS Roosevelt, which could be a replacement for the USS Eisenhower, will undoubtedly face a serious and substantial threat, and the use of hypersonic missiles to attack Western merchant ships is undoubtedly a technological overuse that is as pointless as a cannon shooting a mosquito.

Not only do the Houthis have the power to cut off the Red Sea shipping lanes, but more importantly, their military capabilities are strong enough to pose a direct threat to Israel itself, which is 2,000 kilometers away. In the face of such a display of strength, one naturally raises a series of questions: if the Houthis can have such capabilities, does Allah have similar capabilities? Do Iraq's militias have mastered similar techniques? What hidden forces may be hidden behind these organizations? These questions remain like mysteries, unsolved and thought-provoking.