[1][2] However, according to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at CNS, the Saudis failed to intercept the missiles following a malfunction of the MIM-104 Patriot system.
Online videos showed what appeared to be a missile fuselage lying on a street in Riyadh.
[4] An Egyptian man was killed and two others were wounded when a fragment of one of the missiles over Riyadh fell over a neighborhood.
The United Nations, Western countries and the Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen all said the Burkan mirrors characteristics of an Iranian Qiam ballistic missile.
They said that suggests Iran either shared the technology or smuggled disassembled missiles to the Houthis, who then rebuilt them.