Houthi rebels shoot down 7 US military Reaper drones worth $334m, in recent weeks

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360666149/houthi-rebels-shoot-down-7-us-military-reaper-drones-worth-334m-recent-weeks

Houthi rebels in Yemen have shot down seven US Reaper drones in less than six weeks, a loss of aircraft worth more than US$200 million (NZ$334m) in what is becoming the most dramatic cost to the Pentagon of the military campaign against the Iran-backed militants.

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ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Somebody installed Signal on their phone…

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BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Houthi rebels didn’t shoot down any US drones when Obama was president.

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mathemachristian@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
spirit-bomb

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stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I assume you need fairly sophisticated SAM systems to take out these drones. Are they all coming from Iran? Is this a step up in their missile capability?

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- freeman@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you can shoot any aircraft at a given attitude you can shoot this type of drone. It’s not fast, has no stealthy design and its not even small like some other drones.
  
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  - stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You would have thought for $33mil a pop they would have some countermeasures. I guess they are still several orders of magnitude cheaper than a jet with an expensive pilot so are more disposable?
    
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