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For the Israeli army, which is fighting in Gaza, the center of Tel Aviv, its second largest city, was attacked by a large drone of the Houthi armed forces, resulting in one death and several injured people being sent to the hospital for treatment. It can be said to be an extremely insulting incident. Fortunately, the drone exploded in the air instead of hitting the ground target, otherwise it would have caused greater damage. Tel Aviv is also the internationally recognized capital of Israel, and the explosion site is not far from the US consulate, which gives the Houthis something to show off. The real weirdness of this incident is: how did the Houthi armed forces' large drone enter the uninhabited area?

1. According to the Houthis, the attack on Tel Aviv saw the first confirmed use of a new type of stealth long-range drone, which is specially designed to bypass enemy air defense systems.

Second, one of the most important reasons is the air defense loophole caused by the withdrawal of US military forces from the Red Sea. The flight route of the Houthi armed forces' long-range drones was proven to fly over the entire Red Sea. This time, they were not intercepted by Western warships, including the US military, which also proves that the Houthi armed forces seized the opportunity to strike Israel in depth. The US military deployed and carried out the "Guardian of Prosperity" operation in the Red Sea, consuming a large amount of US missile resources for nearly nine months, but almost no actual results were achieved.

3. The Israeli army has relaxed its combat readiness. Israel claimed that no air raid alarm was triggered and the drone was not intercepted by the Israeli air defense system due to "human error". Israel "does not rule out any possibility" regarding the source of the drone. The Israeli army also intercepted a second drone on its eastern border, but it is unclear whether the two drones were launched by the same organization.

So why was the Houthi drone strike on the Israeli capital so successful?

Now it seems that it is very likely related to the latter two reasons, because the video released by netizens shows that this is a large drone with conventional pneumatic structure and piston engine. In other words, the Houthi armed forces launched a large, low and slow target at Israel, and it is not a strong stealth target at all. The reason why it was able to fly for several hours and hit the Israeli capital is entirely because of the air defense loopholes of the US military and Israel.

Some foreign think tanks have drawn up a route map of the Houthi suicide drone entering Tel Aviv, which passed through the Red Sea, flew to Egypt's Suez Canal, entered the Mediterranean, and entered Tel Aviv from a direction Israel did not expect. In other words, this large drone flew about 2,000 kilometers in total, and based on its flight speed of less than 200 kilometers per hour, it spent more than 10 hours on the road.

So did the Israeli army really make a human error? This is just one explanation. It is more likely that there is no air defense force deployed along the Tel Aviv coastline. The Israeli army now has many areas to defend, and Tel Aviv's long coastline is not just one or two sets of air defense.Anti-aircraft missilesThe Yemeni Houthi armed spokesman also emphasized this point: declaring the occupied Tel Aviv area an unsafe area. Of course, as long as Israel deploysfighterStrengthening cruise operations along this flight route can largely defend against such attacks, but it will inevitably come at a huge cost.

In general, it is not that the Houthis have long-range stealth suicide drones, but that the US military is undefended in the Red Sea in the short term, and Israel's air defenses have no way to deploy to areas where drones were not expected to attack. Next, whether the Houthis will launch such attacks continuously, how the United States will protect Israel's security, and whether it can withstand more brutal consumption in the Red Sea are all worthy of our further attention.