Saudi Arabia Appears To Have Used Its Secretive Stash Of Ballistic Missiles For The First Time

Images from Yemen’s Marib governorate show debris marked as a Chinese DF-15A short-range ballistic missile, which open-source observers attribute to Saudi Arabia. If verified, the incident would be the first known Saudi combat use of this missile class and reveal an inventory Riyadh has never publicly acknowledged. The solid-fuel, road-mobile DF-15 family is generally assessed to offer roughly 600–900 kilometres of range depending on variant. Ownership, identification, target and launch outcome remain unconfirmed, and the wreckage could reflect stage separation, a malfunction or a crash rather than a successful strike.