Screengrab. (The Houthis’ Military Media)
The Houthis (Ansar Allah) have released video footage showing the moment an MQ-9 Reaper combat drone of the United States military was shot down by their air defenses over the northern Yemeni province of Saada on April 25.
MQ-9 combat drones, which cost upwards of $30 million per a unit, are primarily used to collect intelligence, but have the ability to conduct pinpoint strikes. The advanced drones can operate for more than 27 hours and reach altitudes of over 25,000 feet.
The footage released by the Houthis suggest that the drone was armed with AGM-179 JAGM missiles, which are guided by semi-active laser and millimeter-wave radar and have a range of up to eight kilometers, when it was shot down.
The Houthis apparently used one of their medium-range anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down the drone. These missiles are the Fater-1, a copy of the Soviet-made 3M9 used in the Kub system with a range a little bit over 22 kilometers, the Barq-1 and 2, both are thought to be derivative of the Iranian-made Taer-2 with a range of 50 and 70 kilometers respectively.
The Pentagon confirmed on April 26 that an MQ-9 combat drone was lost over Yemen, without admitting that it was shot down by the Houthis.
The drone was the third of its kind to be shot down by the Houthis over Yemen since the group began a confrontation with Israel, the U.S. and the United Kingdom over the Israeli war and siege on the Palestinian Gaza Strip last November.
In addition to shooting down these drones, the Houthis targeted dozens of Israel-affiliated ships and others owned by the U.S. and the UK in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. The group also launched several drone and missile attacks at the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat.
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 Houthis and degrade their capabilities. However, the group’s recent operations suggest that none of these objectives have been achieved so far.
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wtf?! why can those desert people do this much better then our nazis in eurotardland? maybe we shouldve get them on boards instead.
the eu cant do jizz.
drizzle drizzle!
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today i was with my psychotherapist louise hjul, she told me that i had a ” chronically progressive shitzophrenia with hypobulically negativistic symptomatic”
the danes are all stupid, i want to go back to ukraine again 🤡 😆😆😆
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so, like mine your mother is a wh0re too, right?
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and next a us destroyer or a uk one or a french one! that will hurt good! or anything from the eu-efforts, hopefully something with von der lugen onboard!
that witch needs be set on fire in public square with huge pile of dutch farmer pooh…
vondersula prefers to “sink” in luxury of her brussels’s office and evening parties of her sodomite friends.
yes, that is right.
definitely with her on her luxury yacht. monaco will be bigg ass burn on the map.
i enjoy watching $30 million amerikunt junk go pop
why is that c.rap even worth 30 million? iran can make that bs for 1k.
russia might bring over some houthis to a newly established houthis embassy on the spit in crimea, and let them continue downing us drones and atacms guidance planes over the black sea, just to help them, you know, train up their skills, without ‘official russian’ involvement per say, like the uk training nazis in summerset…
the houthis on snake island would stop all nato involvement in the black sea.
good animator with interesting challenges for foreign tourists. some people would call him anti-semitic, but he is a semite himself.
today i was with my psychotherapist louise hjul, she told me that i had a ” chronically progressive shitzophrenia with hypobulically negativistic symptomatic”
the danes are all stupid, i want to go back to ukraine again 😂😂😂
the drone operator probably shitted their pants.
😂😂😂
today i was with my psychotherapist louise hjul, she told me that i had a ” chronically progressive shitzophrenia with hypobulically negativistic symptomatic”
the danes are all stupid, i want to go back to ukraine again 😂😂😂
very good news indeed, may allah watch over and protect the houthis!
day in day out humanity rejoices in the destruction of the evil anglozionazi empire of filth. ain’t karma wonderful! zzz
hit them martillo, you are the man!
finally the houthis are advancing their weapons a.a systems, they can’t fight to achieve their ‘freedom’ using stones and arrows. but it’s a paradox because shooting down a mq9 drone that delivers freedom and democracy to the world. lol! it’s the paradigm of our age. freedom vs freedom. lol!
and just like that, the us and nato’s military edge was gone.
another (north) american crap bite the dust