However, the Houthis have surface-to-air missile systems capable of shooting down high-flying American drones. In November, the Pentagon acknowledged the loss of an MQ-9, shot down by the rebels over the Red Sea. Since Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized the country’s north and its ca...
SunniIslamistswho worried that Saleh’s government was conceding too much in the name of unification. Although he managed to remain in power for more than three decades, years of rule through suppression had resulted in deep-rooted divisions that surfaced after he was removed from power in ...
MQ-9 Reaper drone apparently crashed in Yemen, with the Houthis claiming they fired a surface-to-air missile at it. The U.S. Air Force didn’t report any aircraft missing, leading to suspicion that the drone may have been piloted by the CIA. As m...
Navy officials said the carrier strike group fired more than 400 air-to-surface missiles and 55 air-to-air missiles. "We put a bomb down for every air surface engagement, and then a silhouette of airborne target for every air-to-air engagement that we had," Orloff said. The car...
Saudi Arabia has the U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air anti-missile system, which President Donald Trump credited for bringing the Nov. 4 missile down. In the almost three years that the Saudi-led coalition has waged war with Yemen's rebels, dozens of other missiles have been fired by ...
Ali Bin Hadi, a retired general of the Yemeni government forces, questions the effectiveness of the airstrikes carried out by the American-British air force, emphasizing that they are unlikely to provide a solution. On February 18, the Houthis fired two missiles at Rubymar while it was passin...
The destroyer crew decides to engage the missile at maximum range and selects the Standard SM-2 medium surface-to-air missile. The SM-2, first fielded in the 1980s, is an all-air-defense missile capable of engaging a wide spectrum of aerial threats, from low and slow cruise...
A statement by the UK Defense Ministry noted that the Royal Air Force targeted several very long-range drones identified through intelligence analysis at a former surface-to-air missile battery site several miles northeast of Sana'a. The RAF used Paveway IV precision-guided bombs against the drone...
While playing defense, the U.S. Navy is likely using Standard Missile-2 surface-to-air missiles, which cost more than $2 million a piece, to take down Houthi attacks. The Navy may also be using Standard SM-6 missiles, which cost more than $4 million each. ...
On Thursday, President Joe Biden finally lost his patience. The U.S., in coordination with the United Kingdom and a multinational coalition,launched a series of strikesagainst a dozen Houthi targets across four Yemeni cities. The operation, conducted by U.S. aircraft, surface ships and su...