Yemeni army downs another US-made spy drone over Ma’rib

US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)

The file photo shows a US-made Boeing Insitu ScanEagle reconnaissance drone.

The Yemeni army says it has shot down a Saudi spy drone over oil-producing province of Ma’rib, where Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from the Popular Committees, are advancing on Saudi-backed forces.

The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said in a statement on Friday evening that Yemeni forces managed to shot down yet another a US-made Boeing Insitu ScanEagle as “it was carrying out hostile actions a while ago in the airspace of Sirwah district” in the northwestern province.

The statement, carried by Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, added that the spy drone was shot down with “an appropriate weapon.” 

On Wednesday, Yemeni forces also downed a Chinese-made CH-4 spy drone in the airspace of al-Wadi district and another ScanEagle drone over the al-Jubah district in the same province.

Yemeni armed forces shoot down another US-made ScanEagle reconnaissance drone
Yemeni armed forces shoot down another US-made ScanEagle reconnaissance drone
Yemeni armed forces shoot down another Saudi ScanEagle spying drone as it was flying in the skies over the country’s central province of Ma’rib.

On Saturday last week, Yemeni air defense units also shot down another ScanEagle drone in the skies of the al-Jubah district in Ma’rib, and three days earlier, managed to down a CH-4 combat drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Harf Sufyan district of Yemen’s northwestern province of Amran.

Since January, Yemeni forces have shot down at least eight ScanEagle reconnaissance drones, many of which over areas controlled by the army and allied popular committee forces in Ma’rib.

Ma’rib province has been a flashpoint of fighting between the Yemeni and Saudi-backed forces.

Army forces, allies shoot down intruding Saudi-led spy drone in northwestern Yemen
Army forces, allies shoot down intruding Saudi-led spy drone in northwestern Yemen
Yemeni army soldiers and their allies shoot down a Saudi-led reconnaissance drone in the skies over the country’s northwestern province of ‘Amran.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power and crushing the popular Ansarullah resistance movement.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.

Riyadh, allies have no choice but to end war, siege against Yemen: Ansarullah
Riyadh, allies have no choice but to end war, siege against Yemen: Ansarullah
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah resistance movement praises the army’s increasing gains in the campaign of defense against the Saudi-led coalition of invaders, saying Riyadh and its allies are left with no choice but to end their aggression and siege.

Despite heavily-armed Saudi Arabia’s incessant bombardment of the impoverished country, the Yemeni armed forces and the Popular Committees have grown steadily in strength against the Saudi-led invaders and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.

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