Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing.
On May 4, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) announced that their air defenses had shot down a Chinese-made Rainbow CH-4 combat drone of the Saudi-led coalition over the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajjah.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Yemeni group, said that the drone was shot down with a “locally-made” ground-to-air missile over the district of Harad after violating the UN-sponsored ceasefire agreement in Yemen, which went into effect on April 2.
The Houthis’ Military Media released footage showing the wreckage of the downed drone, which was reportedly armed.
The CH-4 was developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation to carry out reconnaissance and combat missions. The Saudi military purchased an unknown number of the drone a few years ago.
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This was the second Saudi CH-4 combat drone to be shot down by the Houthis over Yemen this year. The first drone was shot down on February 10, also over Harad.
The Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis have been exchanging accusation of ceasefire violations for the past month. Despite this, no significant military operations in Yemen or attacks on Saudi Arabia have been reported since the start of the ceasefire.
The shot down of the CH-4 drone, which was likely just a response to recent violations by the Saudi-led coalition, will not likely effect the ceasefire agreement which is set to end on June 2. The UN hopes that a permanent ceasefire agreement will be reached before the end of the current one.
Not sure if these drones are bad or Saudis can’t operate them properly.
I still think Russia should import bunch of these
Why tho? Russia has its own drone program and they aren’t running out of drones…
Both tbh, remember Iran shot down RQ-4A Global Hawk BAMS-D with 3rd Khordad SAM? That cost the US $ 222,700,000 USD. Was it the fault of the operators of the drones? No. Was the drone shit? Not really.
In Ukraine, the Turk-isis-stan drone alone got shot down over 12 (that is the number Ukraine gives btw) so the real number is like 18 to 20+ drones so far… Drones are very good if your enemy has a very bad air defense system.
You can see it in Ukraine as well, Turk-isis-stan drones achieved fuk all for Ukraine so far, they can only attack troops on the move who aren’t under Russian air defense systems in the first place.
The US supported Saudi royals and zionist regime are the cancer of the Middle East.
agree US Saudi Zionist does not want Yemen to become a better country
like Gaddafi in Libya
Yes, Mr.UN, permanent ceasfire wull be established only after every single square feet of Yemen is liberated. That is when.
Locally made missile? From poor Yemen? Like i can make a stable, homing-in missile here in my kitchen?? Come on! Weapon dealers just sell to ALL sides. As usual. WAR is business. Loads of people to kill, Who cares?
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