Huthi shoot in rows of expensive US drones

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Huthi shoot in rows of expensive US drones

The United States had to accept losses in the fight against Huthi terrorists in Yemen. Several expensive educational drones were lost.

The United States has been flying attacks against the Huthi terrorists in Yemen since mid-March. But in the past few weeks there have been several setbacks. Because the terrorist group has succeeded in locating and shooting down the modern Reaper drones of the United States. In the meantime, seven of the unmanned aircraft are said to have been destroyed, reports the AP news agency. The total damage is more than $ 200 million (around 187 million euros).

Officially, the United States does not want to confirm the losses of the drones, but an official said CNN that it was probably caused by enemy fire. The drones-MQ-9A model-from the manufacturer General Atomics cost $ 30 million per piece. You can fly up to twelve kilometers. The Huthi have slaughtered the drone shots for their propaganda.

Three drones were shot down in the past week alone. According to AP, this could be an indication that the Huthi has improved its technology. The drones, which are used for both attacks and for clarification, have fallen into the water or on land, said US sources from the news agency.

US President Donald Trump announced a new wave of attack with “overwhelming fatal strength” in March. He wanted the terrorist group to end their attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

The spokesman for the US Central Command, Dave Eastburn, said on Thursday evening that the United States had attacked more than 800 Huthi destinations in the past few weeks. “These attacks have destroyed several command and control facilities, air defense systems, advanced arms production systems and advanced arms camps and killed hundreds of Huthi fighters and numerous Huthi leaders,” said Eastburn.

In the past six weeks, in return, the Huthi have fired 77 disposable attack drones, 30 marching aircraft, 24 ballistic medium-range missiles and 23 floor air missiles either on the US armed forces, into the Red Sea or Israel, according to two of the officials.

According to CNN information, the original plan of the United States had been to weaken the terrorist group after a wave of many attacks and track down the leaders of the Huthi. This also requires the educational drones, as the US broadcaster CNN reports. Since the United States itself does not have troops in Yemen, they are largely dependent on air reconnaissance. With the loss of the Reaper, it becomes more difficult to assess the situation and find out what damage has been done and where the ammunition warehouse and hiding places are located.

But the Huthi have already shown themselves to be resistant in the past. They hide their weapons in underground camps, which can hardly be identified from the air. The terrorist group has survived years of attacks from Saudi Arabia, and former President Joe Biden could not switch them off either. According to CNN calculations, the attacks ordered under Donald Trump have already cost over a billion dollars. Government circles always speak of the fact that important goals have been destroyed. But an end is not foreseeable.

As in many crises, Donald Trump probably thought in Yemen that he could quickly end the matter. But apparently the president has also misjudged here, and now the US armed forces have to pay a high price for it.

According to CNN information, resentment within the US Navy is already stimulating. Some officers complained that rockets are wasted that you should urgently have in the Arsenal in the event of a threat by China.

Once even criticism was publicly expressed. “We have to maintain a high degree of mindfulness so that we can get these forces back if there is a crisis that is more urgent than that in the area of ​​responsibility of the central command,” said Admiral Sam Paparo, the command of the U.S. command for the Indopazacific region, at the beginning of the month before the Senate’s armed forces committee. Previously, a complete Patriot air defense battalion had been moved from the Pacific to the US Central Command to the Middle East.