Eine US-amerikanische Reaper-Drohne wurde in der Nähe des Jemen von vom Iran unterstützten Huthi-Kämpfern abgeschossen, sagt ein Verteidigungsbeamter

by Ralphieman

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  3. I’m actually kind of impressed they managed to hit it. its not a very big radar cross section and the engine is the size of a pumpkin so not a very big electromagnetic signature either. Certainly not stealth or super fast, but the rebels should tip their arms dealer for supplying that missile, because they got the good shit.

  5. It seems like a bad idea to waste air defense resources annoying the US, when the US has such easy ways they can make you pay for it.

  6. New drone. Houthis? Anyone more informed on UAV capability here that can tell me how hard/easy it is to shoot this particular model down?

  9. More than likely the American government sent this over as a “dummy”. Strip down version of the reaper meant to be shot down to see what missile capabilities they have. A reaper can loiter at 50,000 feet for about a good 24 hours.

  12. A reaper drone is 30M$, a SA missile is like 1M$ thats very cost efficient.

  14. Damn they shot down our “Military Advice”.

    United States Armed Forces, in a non-combat role, continue to provide military advice and limited information to the Saudi-led Coalition for defensive and training purposes only as they relate to territorial defense. Such support does not involve United States Armed Forces in hostilities with the Houthis for the purposes of the War Powers Resolution.

  15. Imagine Turkey flying a Bayraktar drone off the coast if California and complaining we shot it down 😆

  16. You know they are ripping optics out of them.

    Or any drones with better optics.

    They didn’t confirm this before. The statement was they didn’t know about any missing reapers.

  17. Has this been confirmed? Last I saw it wasn’t confirmed by the DOD. This is hearsay as of this moment. “Anonymous official” is not a valid source.

  20. What’s it doing over there anyway? Just hanging around sovereign airspace?

  21. The whole point of Drones people forget is recon or attack aircraft in place of manned aircraft. We lose a machine but no pilots lives have been lost. The attacker’s though may soon be on the receiving end of the US Navy.

  22. This is the third time MQ reapers got shot by the houthis.

  24. I’ve had it with these motherfuckin houthis, in this motherfuckin area

  26. Is this not a declaration of war? Or not because it’s a terrorist group?

  27. Ahhh, someone is about to get some Harpoon/JDAM doorbells ringing…

  29. Defense contractors gotta be fully cocked at this point.

  30. If I’m president I’d order Iran bombed until they called and thanked me for it personally.

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