Yemen has long been a testing ground for highly lethal modern weapons, evidenced by the Houthi strike on Gulf Coalition forces and Yemeni allies in December 2015, using a Tochka ballistic missile, which killed well over 100 soldiers. For their part, forces allied to the Yemeni government have hammered Houthis with relentless airpower, inflicting thousands of casualties in grinding battles around Marib province from 2021 to 2022. In the past, both Houthis and Yemeni forces enabled some of this
