News - Yemen: Two field-experienced military analysts say recent Yemeni operations that struck deep into occupied territory mark a new tactical phase, one that exploits gaps in the Zionist entity’s air-defence networks and imposes heavy psychological and functional strain on the enemy’s home front.

New Patterns, New Tools — Diversified Timing and Mixed-Weapon Attacks

Brig. Gen. Ali Abi Raad, a military and strategic affairs expert, told Al-Masirah that footage and reports coming from Zionist entity media confirm Yemen has entered “a new stage” since announcing its participation in the support campaign for Gaza. He argued that Yemen’s Armed Forces have evolved novel techniques in response to strikes, forcing the enemy to revise its threat assessments.

Abi Raad said the shift includes diversification of timing and weapon mixes: from repeated night raids to strikes at unpredictable hours; from reliance on a single type of unmanned aerial vehicle to combinations of ballistic missiles and varied drones — some low-altitude, some remotely steered to fly routes that evade standard detection. Targets have broadened as well, moving from routine military or logistic nodes to highly sensitive infrastructure including airports, transport hubs and sites previously considered protected. That expansion, he said, exhausts and complicates defence-sector surveillance and response.

Defence Failures Against Concealed Routes and Low-Altitude Profiles

Abi Raad highlighted that even some of the world’s most advanced air-defence arrays in the Zionist entity struggled against these new attack profiles. Low flight profiles and concealed corridors — such as routes crossing the Negev desert in the east of occupied Palestine — allowed some projectiles and UAVs to approach or reach highly sensitive objectives undetected or unengaged.

“The Yemenis appear to have identified and exploited internal transit corridors that rendered interception ineffective,” he said, praising the Yemeni forces’ use of concealment, deception and synchronised multi-vector strikes.

Psychological and Functional Impact: Timing Is a Weapon

Brig. Gen. Mujib Shamsan emphasized the psychological and functional dimensions of the campaign. He said deliberate use of timing and location — for example, strikes on tourist areas or vital civilian centres — amplifies fear and disrupts the enemy’s civil life and economy.

“Choosing the moment — late at night or early morning — multiplies panic and confusion within the occupation’s home front,” Shamsan said. He added that the mixture of hypersonic ballistic threats and diverse UAV types makes it harder for enemy commanders to categorise incoming threats, producing contradictory official accounts and media efforts to downplay the effects.

Shamsan pointed to recent examples — from strikes on Ramon Airport to attacks on touristic hotels — as evidence that Yemeni forces can reach distant, sensitive targets despite advanced interception systems. He noted reports of material damage and casualties in some strikes, and acknowledged that millions were driven to shelters amid waves of reported panic.

Findings and Strategic Implications

Taken together, the experts conclude that Yemen’s Armed Forces have built a tactical system capable of:

* Rapidly innovating after each strike and counterstrike;
* Combining ballistic missiles and multiple drone types with careful altitude and route control to exploit detection blind spots;
* Timing attacks to maximize psychological disruption and functional paralysis rather than only seeking immediate material damage.

These patterns complicate the mission of the Zionist entity’s air-defence networks and suggest the campaign’s strategic aim is increasingly to impose sustained logistical, economic and psychological costs on the enemy, not merely tactical battlefield effects.

Since announcing direct operational support for Gaza, Yemen has accelerated long-range missile and drone operations against the Zionist entity. What began in many instances as symbolic demonstrations of solidarity has evolved into targeted campaigns against ports, airports, transport nodes and other sensitive infrastructure.