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Doesn't make sense to underestimate their capabilities.

Anti ship missiles are really 1930s tech, there's not necessarily much modern electronics involved.

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No, but you need to have working industrial capabilities and without Iran that just stops. This is an Iranian proxy.

There are a dozen countries in that area with people sympathetic to their cause. I'd not be surprised if the majority of their logistics is privately sourced.

This is the reason they still exist, it's just easy to blame a single villain and call it a day.

The Iranian backing of the Houtis is not exactly a secret and sufficient to explain what's happening. Anything else is icing on the cake but not enough to supply them, if Iran would drop away as a supporter then the Houtis would fail.

A cruise missile is 1930's tech??

Cruise missiles are for targets many hundreds of kilometers away. These just have to make it from the shores of the Red sea to the middle, a considerably shorter distance than what cruise missiles are really meant for.

These are more like howitzers with self propelled projectiles. These are much simpler than cruise missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-propelled_artillery

Technically a V1 is a cruise missile if you stretch the definition a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb

40s, I'd say Fritz-X was a good example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X

1944 v-1 is I think the first cruise missile. In ww2 the Germans had guided anti ship missiles and the US had aa shells with very simple radar.

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