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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced on August 4 that they shot down a United States drone over Yemen and targeted a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden in response to the Israeli war on the the Gaza Strip and to recent American and British strikes on their country.
In a statement, Houthi military spokesman Brigade General Yahya Sarea, said that the group shot down an MQ-9 Reaper combat drone of the U.S. military over the northern province of Saada using a “locally made surface-to-air missile.”
The group didn’t share footage of the downing. Nevertheless, photos showing the drone’s wreckage were posted to social networks.
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The Houthis also attacked the merchant vessel Groton in the Gulf of Aden with “a number of ballistic missiles,” Brig. Gen. Sarea said, noting that the ship was targeted because it is owned by a company that violated the group’s ban on shipping to ports in “occupied Palestine.”
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a detachment of the Royal Navy, reported two attacks on a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden, confirming that it was hit. No casualties were reported by the agency, however.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces salute the valiant Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip for 300 days of steadfastness, heroism and sacrifice in defense of the nation, its pride and dignity and in victory for its sanctities,” Brig. Gen. Sarea concluded his statement, stressing that “the Yemeni Armed Forces will continue to carry out military operations … until the [Israeli] aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.”
The Houthis, who are backed by Iran, have attacked dozens of vessels affiliated with Israel or owned by the U.S. and the UK in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea since November in response to the war on Gaza.
In addition, the group launched dozens of drones and missiles at Israel and shot down seven American-made combat drones over Yemen and nearby waters.
Since January, the U.S. and the UK have carried out hundreds of strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in an attempt to deter the group and degrade its military capabilities, but to no avail.
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lol @ mq9 “weeper”
that makes 7 weepers downed in yemen since november. defending your genocide babies comes with a cost, doesn’t it sugar uncle sam?
through the dollar debt and interest system this cost is shared globaly between all tax payers so no problem for the elites.
7 mq9’s here, 500 merkava’s there, a few dozen iron dome here, a dozen hermes over there.. and on and on it goes.
yes, they won’t go bankrupt overnight, but even the biggest empire can crumble one piece at a time.
if they’re lucky they’ll wake up and realize the zionazi project burning through their taxes is the reason they have sh*t schools and roads, and no healthcare, if not they will crumble all the same.
what we know is the resistance can, and will, go on forever. but how long can the us and iskhael sustain this? decade after decade the balance of power is shifting in their detriment.
the only question is will they stop their maddness before of after they are totally destroyed?
we will see i am pesimistic in this. every chance in power in an anti us country gives them another chance to install a pupet and bring the country back in the western fold like they did with argentina. now they are trying it again with venezuela, they will continue to try with belarus and georgia, they managed with armenia. just imagine the followup on putin or xi being one of their agents like it happened with lenin. all the progress of the global south will be gone.
whose puppet or agent was wladimir iljitsch uljanow ???
americans are committed to their ignorance. despite their hatred of trump, barely any of them have woken up to the fake trump assassination and have failed to realize what the trump circus has done. they will not wake up to reality until the mark of the beast is upon them, and most will take it like cattle they are.
houthis need kinzhals. everything changes when they get them and use them.
they will only get weapons of importance by agreeing to be neutered geopolitically or if russia throws off the yids and freemasons.
15% of the israeli population speaks russian, around 1.5 million people. get serious
yemen could be the turning point for russia: turning back the kindness usa is showing them.
but russia want rather endure civillian losts than kicking it’s enemies where it will hurt.
it’s got something to do with the jews and freemasons at the levers of power. most russians would rather stick it to the people who have done their countrymen in with advanced weapons. the prevarications are about ‘stability’ and ‘being an adult’ but in actuality it is about their real masters in london and israel.
the us just lost $30 million with the loss of that drone. the houthis probably only lost $1k. lol
keep up the great work against these zionist isreali genocidal maniacs.
if they are able to shoot down 30 million dollar mq reapers using a “locally made surface-to-air missile.”, all i can say is they are really sharp shooters…
hobbyists regularly make their own guided rockets and drones are quite slow, not that i’m saying your implication is wrong necessarily. programming + the right electronics soldered together and some motors for the fins. yemeni with the skill and desire to mix up rocket fuel are plentiful and the ingredients.
the sad fact is that for each drone that is shot down the us military industrial complex profits as they get to buy more at taxpayer expense. so for every drone that is shot down… champagne corks are flying in washington.
one day the usadmin will wish that they hadn’t wasted a drone by flying it into the pentagon, to cover up massive fraud amongst other things.