Breaking: US Reaper Drone (MQ-9) shot down in Yemen

President Trump need to send 2-3 Tomahawks as response and take out few of their aircraft or AA sites.

I want to see the video... Usualy russian R-27T (infrared guided)air to air missiles - shoted from land with an IR camera to fix the target.

Shot down by Houthi Millitia. Probably a infantry carried surface to air missile(manpad).

R-27T (infrared guided)air to air missiles - manpads dont climb so high... 15-18kms

When a reaper costs a few million and a missle to shoot it down costs a few thousand how can you win a war if you dont print the money supply.

So a drone gets shot down over another countries airspace and your response is to shoot missiles at it??

I wonder how the US would react if a Yemen drone flew over America

I BET THAT WE'RE TRYIN TO GET THEM TO TAKE THE THING BACK TO THEIR SECRET BASE..AND WE GOTZ A TRO-JAN HORSE IN DERE WAITIN TO HACK EVERYTING BACKWARDZ....AND DROP A J-DAM IN THER AS WELL...HA!

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#BREAKING: Here is the video showing the alleged #USAF's MQ-9 Reaper armed drone which #IRGC's #Houthi rebels claim that they have shot it down over #Thamar, #Yemen an hour ago.

Here is pictures of wreckage of the #USAF's MQ-9 Reaper armed drone which was shot-down by #IRGC backed #Houthi rebels. They claim that they have used domestically made surface-to-air missile to shoot it down. If ture then it means that they used #Iranian made Sayyad-2C.

The MQ-9 Reaper armed drone which #IRGC backed #Houthi rebels shot down over #Yemen was armed with AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles.

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Also Iran got a Hellfire missile in good state, to copy it and use agains USA, hahaha

Might makes right, always has, always will.

Let’s do it.

Nice, thanks man

The missile is not cheap either.

US seriously need to add self destruct to our weapons. If damaged they should blow themselves to smithereens so technology don’t get stole.

Ah you're right of course. Thought maybe it flew low altitude.

Found this footage of R-27 launched from ground launcher.

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We need to lose drones on a regular basis , It's good for
the thousands of workers in the defense industry . Gotta
feed America's war machine .

This proves Obama allowed Clinton to topple Libya knowing damn well these weapons would lock down the Middle East airspace from US air power so Iran could finish nuclear testing

That is true!

That picture shows a propeller. Drones use propellers?

MQ-9 is fairly cold running drone. Be surprised if a IR missile got it. Wonder if it has flares or DIRCM.

DIRCM
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I don’t see any obvious IRCM on the MQ-9


Last Edited by Xeven on 08/21/2019 11:29 AM

Why is the U.S. even in Yemen?
Let the Saudis and Yemenis duke it out, get us the hell out of there.

We should have retaliated after they downed our Global Hawk drone in Hormuz, but Trump somehow has a cooler head than all of us lol.

Last Edited by Goblin Slayer on 08/21/2019 11:38 AM

We don’t want the Iranians and their proxies taking over the region, that would be pretty bad for us and our allies.

I agree but we can’t keep letting them take our stuff out without making it costly for them. We don’t have to start a war when we can do some minimal but appropriate stand off retaliation.

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Last Edited by Xeven on 08/21/2019 11:33 AM

What are they shooting our drones down WITH? Soviet hardware? Donkey-mounted Ack-ack guns? I really want to know

I think this shows that Iranians are in Yemen working sophisticated surface to air sites for the rebels.

Think of how often the U.S. flies over Iraq.

How many aircraft, manned or unmanned, have we lost?

It probably was most likely one we sold to Saudi Arabia. It’s not the first one of the SA that’s been shot down.

Merica!We kill more people by 05:00 than most nations do in a year!

No, Tel Av iv!

What was that murder machine for cowardly fucks doing there anyway, 'mericuh? Violating a sovereign nation's airspace, spying at the very least up to bombing turd world weddings, meddling in a genocidal civil war by proxy ... All for whom? The headchopper rag-head dictators of Al Saud?

The Geneva convention ... Do you even adhere to it or do the rules only apply to defenseless poverty-stricken shitholes in case they catch some of your brainwashed cannon fodder?

Nauseating.

yes, they are on the rear.