تشغيل الحوثيين — تحليل مكوّنات الصواريخ الحوثية

وثّق محقّقو مركز كار أكثر من 800 مكوّن من مكوّنات الصواريخ والطائرات المسيَّرة، استُرجعت في عمليات مصادرة بحرية حديثة في البحر الأحمر

وتكشف هذه الأصناف مجتمعةً عن جوانب جوهرية تتعلّق بتركيبة منظومات الأسلحة التقليدية المتطوّرة لدى الحوثيين — مثل الصواريخ والطائرات المسيَّرة — وطبيعتها.

POWERING THE HOUTHIS

CAR field investigators have documented more than 800 missile and UAV components recovered in maritime seizures in the Red Sea in 2024 and 2025. These provide critical insight into the composition and nature of advanced conventional weapon systems—like missiles and UAVs—in Houthi possession. This Frontline Perspective examines the missiles and UAVs available to the Houthis in Yemen, as identified through CAR’s analysis of documented components. It provides evidence of a continuing supply of Iranian-origin materiel to the Houthis in Yemen and explores the nature of the multipurpose components on which these missiles rely.

WEAPON SEIZURES IN BAHRAIN

This report examines common features of seizures of conventional weapons and ammunition carried out in Bahrain between 2013 and 2018 — a time of heightened tensions in the country, and in the wider region. It identifies three main commonalities: links with items recovered in maritime seizures in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden; the co-location of weapons with components and chemical precursors used to make improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and a pattern of obliterations of unique identifying markings.

This report draws on CAR’s wider investigations in the region to assess linkages between the weapons seized in Bahrain at this time, and illicit supplies across the Gulf, which have continued into 2024.

DISTRIBUTION OF IRANIAN AMMUNITION IN AFRICA

This report documents six years of collaborative investigations into the distribution of Iranian ammunition in Africa. It is the first comprehensive study of Iran’s weapon ‘footprint’ on the continent.

Focusing on nine African states, it identifies Iranian-manufactured ammunition in service with government forces and a variety of non-state entities, including foreign-backed insurgents, rebel forces, Islamist-oriented armed groups, and warring civilian communities.