Video: Yemeni Air Defenses Shoot down highly advanced US-made spy drone
SANAA, March 23 (YPA) – The Saudi-led coalition warplanes have continued to fly intensively over the capital city of Sana’a in the two hours after one of their drone planes was shot down on the outskirts of Sana’a province on Friday at midnight.
It has been observed that coalition warplanes deliberately and intensively fly high over, which is widely seen the result of their fear of being shot down by the air defences of the Yemeni army.
The air defenses of the Armed Forces shot down an unmanned military aircraft belonging to the coalition in the sky of the Sana’a province, on Friday.
The drone was “carrying out surveillance mission,” a military source said. The source confirmed that the air defenses targeted a modern hostile drone aircraft in the Hamdan district of Sana’a province, which caused it to crash immediately.
Video footage released by the military media of the army forces showed the moment when the U.S. MQ-1- unmanned aircraft over the sky of Hamdan district outskirt of Sanaa province.
Photos showed the wreckage of the U.S. MQ-1- unmanned aircraft
The same source explained that the plane was an American-built MQ1 that was carrying out espionage operations in the sky of the capital Sana’a.
Previously, the Yemeni air defence unit has shot down an American unmanned aircraft of the MQ-9-Type on October 1, 2017near Qadissiyah market in the center of the capital Sana’a.
The US MQ1 aircraft comes from the latest series of aircraft manufactured by the United States Air Force General Atomics, and the flight steering and control crew consists of 82 people to carry out a 24-hour mission.
The length of the US MQ1 aircraft is 8.22 meters, with a height of 2.1 meters, and a length of 14.8 meters, which enables it to fly at approximately 70 knots and to reach 1100 km and an altitude of 7620 meters.
The aircraft, although relatively large in size, is lightweight, with a “net weight of 512 kg and weight of 1020 kg, designed to withstand 204 kg anti-tank rockets”.
The destruction of such a highly advanced US-made unmanned aerial vehicle is a testimony to the professionalism and skill of the Yemeni air defences.
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