Army spokesman says Yemen’s air defenses shoot down Saudi US-made spy aircraft
The Yemeni army says it has shot down a US-made spy aircraft belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition over the skies of the northern province of Ma’rib.
Spokesman for the Yemeni army and fighters from popular committees Yahya Saree said on Twitter on Sunday that “Air Defenses shot down a US-made spy plane type of (ScanEagle) with a surface-to-air missile while carrying out hostilities in the skies of al-Mushajah area of Sarwah district of Ma’rib governorate.”
The army’s spokesman further said the operation of downing the Saudi spy aircraft and the wreckage of aircraft will be broadcast later.
1- Air Defenses shot down a U.S. spy plane type of (Scan Eagle) with a surface-to-air missile while carrying out hostilities in the skies of Al-Mushajah area of Sarwah district of Marib governorate.
— Yahya Sare'e (@Yahya_Saree) June 20, 2021
The reconnaissance aircraft, whose full name is the Boeing Insitu ScanEagle, is a small, long-endurance, and low-altitude drone built by Insitu, a subsidiary of the American Boeing Company.
Saree stressed that the Yemeni army and the allied Popular Committees would “spare no effort in carrying out their responsibilities in protecting Yemeni airspace & countering all hostilities.”
2- operation is documented by military media lens and scenes of operation and the wreckage of aircraft will be broadcast later
— Yahya Sare'e (@Yahya_Saree) June 20, 2021
Armed Forces confirm that they will spare no effort in carrying out their responsibilities in protecting Yemeni airspace & countering all hostilities
Saudi Arabia and some of its regional allies, backed by the US and other Western powers, have been waging a devastating war on Yemen beginning in March 2015 to reinstall Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah revolution.
The Saudi war, which Riyadh had claimed would last only a few weeks but is still ongoing, has failed to achieve its goals, but pushed Yemen to the brink, killed tens of thousands of innocent people, and destroyed the impoverished state’s infrastructure.
The United Nations has described the war on Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The Yemeni armed forces and allied Popular Committees have, however, have gone from strength to strength against the Saudi-led invaders, and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the Arab country.
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