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Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. The Houthis have no fighter aircraft in their inventory. The Iranian Ya-Ali has a much longer range due to being imparted with much more kinetic and potential energy when released from a fighter aircraft such as the Mirage type. This airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia is less than 200 km from the Yemeni border. According to Jane's Defense Weekly, the Houthis may have used a Quds 1 GLCM in the Abha International Airport attack on 12 June 2019. It is named after a Shi'ireligious expression beseeching imam Ali.As an ALCM, the Ya-Ali is discinct from the ground launched cruise missiles (GLCMs) in the Houthi inventory.

On February 7, 2015, Iran’s Deputy Defense Minister Mohammad Eslami announced that the missile could previously be launched from only Mirage type fighter planes but it can now be launched from every fighter plane that Iran owns. According to Janes Defence, the missile has a jet engine inlet and possibly uses a version of the Toloue-4 turbojet Iran produces for its longer-range anti-ship missiles and it is reported to have a range of 700 km.

The missile was first unveiled on when Iranian leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visited the Aerospace Force of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. The Ya-Ali (Persian: یاعلی) is an air launched cruise missile (ALCM) built by Iran.

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