Yemen's Houthi rebels claim downing US Reaper drone, release footage showing wreckage of aircraft

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Source: ABC News/AP

April 27, 2024, 11:21 AM


JERUSALEM -- JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday claimed shooting down another of the U.S. military's MQ-9 Reaper drones, airing footage of parts that corresponded to known pieces of the unmanned aircraft.

The Houthis said they shot down the Predator with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of assaults this week by the rebels after a relative lull in their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bryon J. McGarry, a Defense Department spokesperson, acknowledged to The Associated Press on Saturday that “a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 drone crashed in Yemen.” He said an investigation was underway, without elaborating.

The Houthis described the downing as happening Thursday over their stronghold in the country's Saada province. Footage released by the Houthis included what they described as the missile launch targeting the drone, with a man off-camera reciting the Houthi's slogan after it was hit: “God is the greatest; death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews; victory to Islam.”

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[Voltaire2]

1. It's not really an 'assault' to shoot down

a weapon trying to kill you.

[erronis]

2. Exactly. Am I not to swat at the bug that wants to sting me?

The skies are becoming really difficult to control. Better when most everything was two-dimensional, in trenches with a few cannonballs launched into the third dimension, briefly.

Now we have weapons and surveillance systems operating a few meters above ground level and then everything up to space.

I know. Let's let AI take control of all these systems and we can go back to mowing our grass and drinking pina coladas, until we die.