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Yemen’s Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced late on October 17 that they shot down a Saudi AH-64 Apache attack helicopter near the border with the kingdom’s southern province of Najran.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the movement’s military spokesman, said the American-made helicopter had been targeting Houthi positions along the border.
“Our armed forces, with the help and grace of God, managed to shoot down an Apache belonging to the Saudi enemy opposite Najran while it was carrying out hostile actions against our forces’ positions along the border,” Saree said. “It was shot down with a suitable weapon.”
The Houthis operate a range of air defense systems, from man-portable weapons to interceptors and medium-range surface-to-air missiles.
The Apache is Saudi Arabia’s principal attack helicopter, with a modernized AH-64E estimated to cost about $52 million per helicopter according to recent U.S. Army procurement figures.
Open-source inventories list 22 Apaches with the Royal Saudi Land Forces and 12 others with the Saudi Arabian National Guard.
The announcement came just days after the Houthis said they had struck a Saudi Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet over Yemen’s Saada province. The group later released footage showing a missile hitting the jet during flight, supporting its claim.
Including the latest claim, the Houthis have announced 18 shootdowns since the start of the ongoing confrontation with Saudi Arabia. Aside from an American-made F-15SA fighter jet, all other warplanes shot down by the Houthis were combat drones.
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ansar allah destroys american supplied weapons ? yes they do !
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for example one of the russian counterparts such is aligator have ejection seats, and crew of two sitting next to each others. this one doesn’t have ejection seats, so they probably dead.
ah-64 apache attack helicopter is infamous and notorious criminal asset and machine (on pair with d9). because of this bullshit julian assange is still in prison and loosing his mind.
thank you brethren of yemen!
assange signed a deal in 2024 to plead guilty and accept a sentence of “time served” and is free since.
why he would plead guilty for speaking the truth?
assange is a psyop character- he was dancing at nightclubs and totally in the open when they were supposedly trying to find him. he also has psychopath eyes, i have seen that look before from a psycho/ sociopath.
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