Houthis eating US Reaper drones for breakfast: how many have they destroyed so far?

Houthis eating US Reaper drones for breakfast: how many have they destroyed so far? Yemen’s Houthi militia has now downed over a quarter billion dollars’ worth of General Atomics MQ-9 Reapers – the Pentagon’s drone of choice for the bombing of poor brown people. The latest Reaper shootdown took place last Saturday while it was carrying out intelligence-gathering activities over Marib province in central Yemen, according to the Houthis. The US military refused to confirm the loss until Friday, when an anonymous DoD official said an Air Force MQ-9 had been “struck but then landed safely and was recovered by US partner forces on September 9” somewhere in the Middle East. The Pentagon did not elaborate on where the drone touched down, who recovered it or what shape it was in. ▪️The damaged Reaper is at least the eighth $32 million-apiece US UAV struck by the Houthis since last November. ▪️On August 4, the Houthis blew a Reaper out of the sky over Saada, northwestern Yemen. An informed ... Source: Sputnik International
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