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U.S. drone shot down by Houthi rebel forces in Yemen
The WashingtonTimes ^
| November 8, 2023
| Mike Glenn
Posted on 11/09/2023 6:08:06 AM PST by McGruff
Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen shot down a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone operating in international airspace off the country’s coast, a Defense Department official confirmed Wednesday.
U.S. Central Command is currently piecing together how Yemen’s Houthi rebels were able to destroy one of the remotely-piloted aircraft, which can carry up to eight laser-guided Hellfire missiles and cost more than $30 million each, the Pentagon official said.
A spokesman for the Houthi forces said the MQ-9 drone was carrying out “hostile monitoring and spying operations” when it was shot down by the group’s air defense forces. Houthi officials claimed the drone was operating over Yemeni territorial waters.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Yemen
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:08:06 AM PST
by
McGruff
To: McGruff
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:09:12 AM PST
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
To: McGruff
bomb these terrorist assholes out of existence
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:09:26 AM PST
by
canuck_conservative
(there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
To: McGruff
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:12:39 AM PST
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
To: kinsman redeemer
No! John Holmes is...
Signed the dumbest generation.
To: kinsman redeemer
Sorry bro, but that is not an MQ-9.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:20:05 AM PST
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
To: McGruff
We are trying to figure out how? How about with a air defesce missile? Where ever that was launched from needs be turned into a concave sand pocket.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:29:50 AM PST
by
Mouton
(US Home to one party rule)
To: McGruff
Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen shot down a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone operating in international airspace off the country’s coast, a Defense Department official confirmed Wednesday. LOL. Yesterday the report was that this drone was flying in Yemen's territorial waters.
You'd have to be retarded to believe anything a "Defense Department official" says these days.
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:41:21 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
To: everyone
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:42:46 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: McGruff
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posted on
11/09/2023 6:56:14 AM PST
by
sauropod
(The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
To: McGruff
"Houthi rebels were able to destroy one of the remotely-piloted aircraft, which can carry up to eight laser-guided Hellfire missiles" A demonstration is needed, but Biden doesn't have the stones.
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posted on
11/09/2023 7:26:56 AM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: McGruff
I imagine a half-dozen B-52s would do quite a number on their launch site.
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posted on
11/09/2023 7:27:49 AM PST
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: McGruff
Houthi’s are maniac fighters
Too bad u can’t clone them
Here take this rpg and charge that hill!
Kill tank!
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posted on
11/09/2023 7:28:54 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
To: wardaddy
The Turks may come close to that only much smarter.
When I was a boy shortly after the Korean War I recall hearing that the Norks feared our Turkish allies for good reason.
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posted on
11/09/2023 10:53:41 AM PST
by
Pelham
(President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
To: Mark17
Thanks!
I got the picture from HERE and then I assumed too much.
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posted on
11/10/2023 9:28:07 AM PST
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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