{"id":9646,"date":"2025-04-24T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2025-04-24T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:12:08","slug":"old-video-falsely-linked-to-houthi-announcements-of-their-hypersonic-ballistic-missile-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/old-video-falsely-linked-to-houthi-announcements-of-their-hypersonic-ballistic-missile-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video falsely linked to Houthi announcements of their hypersonic ballistic missile launches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cFedayeen Sayyed Abdul Malik Al Houthi\u201d<\/a>\u00a0account on \u201cX\u201d posted\u00a0a video clip of a missile being launched, claiming that it belonged to the Houthis. The clip was accompanied by the following text: \u201cIt is Yemen, gentlemen… the first Arab hypersonic (surface-to-surface) missile.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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One source of the claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif verified the video via the Invid tool, and found it to be old and incorrectly linked to Houthi announcements of their hypersonic ballistic missile launches. The clip, which was circulated in November 2023, depicts the Iranian Fatah 2 hypersonic missile.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sputnik Brasil<\/a>\u00a0account\u00a0on X published the video on 22\/11\/2023, with the following description: \u201cIran launches its hypersonic missile, Fatah-2. The footage broadcast by Fars News Agency on Tuesday evening shows the moment the new Iranian hypersonic missile, Fatah-2, was launched and accurately hit its target.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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The video was posted on Sputnik Brasil account on X on 22\/11\/2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Sun<\/a>\u00a0also posted\u00a0the clip on YouTube on the same date, 22\/11\/2023, with the following description: \u201cIran unveils new hypersonic cruise missile.\u201d The clip\u2019s description stated that on 21\/11\/2023, Iran showed footage of a new hypersonic cruise missile test called the Fateh 2. The Sun quoted the Iranian Fars News Agency as saying that the missile has a range of 1,400 kilometers and a speed of between Mach 13 and 15, while engineers hope to increase its range to 2,000 kilometers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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The video was posted on The Sun on X on 22\/11\/2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Houthis frequently announce targeting Israel with hypersonic ballistic missiles. The most recent announcement was made by Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman\u00a0Yahya Saree<\/a>\u00a0on 23\/4\/2025, about targeting a vital target in Haifa with a hypersonic ballistic missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of Claim<\/td>Sources of Verification <\/td><\/tr>
Fedai Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi<\/a>
<\/a><\/td>		Sputnik Brasil<\/a>

The Sun<\/a>

Brigadier General Yahya Saree<\/a>
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\u201cFedayeen Sayyed Abdul Malik Al Houthi\u201d\u00a0account on \u201cX\u201d posted\u00a0a video clip of a missile being launched, claiming that it belonged to the Houthis. The clip was accompanied by the following text: \u201cIt is Yemen, gentlemen… the first Arab hypersonic (surface-to-surface) missile.\u201d\u00a0 Kashif verified the video via the Invid tool, and found it to be old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,131,83,44,56,158,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-9646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-facts-in-english","8":"tag-claim","9":"tag-fact","10":"tag-houthis","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-kashif","13":"tag-verified","14":"tag-yemen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9648,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions\/9648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}