US MQ-9 Reapers in the Line of Houthi Fire, Second Drone Downed In A Week, Fifth Since November 2023

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed that they had shot down another American MQ-9 drone on May 21. The Houthis did not say when the downing took place but alleged the drone “was carrying out hostile missions” over the southern province of Bayda. Yahya Saree also boasted of the growing Houthi capabilities against Western weapons. According to the spokesperson, this was be the second MQ-9 Reaper drone downed by the Houthis over the past week. Watch the video to find out more.
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0:00 - INTRODUCTION
01:57 - HOUTHIS DOWN FIFTH MQ-9 "REAPER" OVER YEMEN?
03:45 - WHY ARE US MQ-9s IN THE LINE OF HOUTHI FIRE?
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[@user-be2vn6en6x]

US is completely silent about what is happening in Yemen, because they failed miserably 😂🤡

[@fisophia1734]

Alhamdulillah 😊😊😊🤲🇵🇸

[@monahaque1660]

Yemen may be small in might, but they are VERY BRAVE MEN!!!!!!

[@mr_khan_11]

Yemen 🇾🇪 a great nation and new world 🌎 superpower and powerful military in the Middle Eastern region and standing with Palestinians people's justice independent state declaration of the Palestine 🇵🇸 occupied 📜 i support of Palestinians brother's ❤❤❤ from India 🇮🇳

[@hyhhy]

Yemen is showing why these expensive drones were never given to Ukraine. They drop like flies to any decent air defense.

[@loranmarmes]

They all do, none of them are set up to defend themselves. They even use them to sniff out air defenses, when they shoot the drone, the defensive site is targeted

[@greenc1088]

@@loranmarmes yeah, sniff out air defenses at what cost lol

[@loranmarmes]

@@greenc1088 there's always a cost. Using the drone, you don't lose a pilot or a 250M $ aircraft. How is that so hard to understand?

[@indiamylove4833]

​@@greenc1088sniff to get ass fu ck😂😂😂😂😂what a westernian logic

[@quanboi420]

@@greenc1088a bigger cost than the drone to us😂that air defense system probably costs more, especially when we spend 900 bil yearly, that drone is nothing to us😂

[@zed2056]

England people love Yemen 🇾🇪

[@nazaimohamammdi5488]

Please correct it. War didn't begin on Oct 7, but it was started 5 decades earlier.

[@mehdideilami3888]

So, this marks the sixth MQ-9 taken down by the Houthis, bringing the total damage to just over $200 million for these drones alone. They're aiming for a whopping $1 billion. Quite a journey ahead!

[@quanboi420]

Oh no, $200 Mil out of our $900 Bil yearly defense spending what will we ever do!!!😢😂

[@mehdideilami3888]

@@quanboi420 And with a projected debt of 40 trillion soon, BRICS countries will make it impossible for you to afford spending even 100 billion annually within less than a decade.

[@mehdideilami3888]

@@quanboi420 And with a projected debt of 40 trillion soon, BRICS countries will make it impossible for you to afford spending even 100 billion annually within less than a decade.

[@mehdideilami3888]

@@quanboi420 And with a projected debt of 40 trillion soon, BRICS countries will make it impossible for you to afford spending even 100 billion annually within less than a decade.

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[@notout841]

Even Yemen is superpower in the middle East...now think about Iran.

[@ozioz6285]

Iran is nothing.they can't even locate their president.

[@giovannygallardo692]

Iran and Yemen are both shit USA doesn't want kill civilians cause it's election year Wait till after November 🎉

[@albertnawab9211]

Can US stay in his limit? Why US is interfering in other countries affairs? Sending drones is violation of that country's Airspace. All countries must aware of this danger.

[@khanaliqasim1757]

As you may know,US is special

[@albertnawab9211]

@@khanaliqasim1757 Then you must support Houthis.😁

[@khanaliqasim1757]

@@albertnawab9211 Yes I do

[@mehdideilami3888]

These drones were designed specifically for Afghanistan and subsequently deployed in various locations where the U.S. could easily achieve air superiority due to the absence of effective anti-air defenses. Capable of circling overhead indefinitely, these drones possess the ability to target and destroy targets at will. However, the era during which the U.S. could effortlessly secure air dominance has come to an end. Without air superiority, the U.S.'s military capabilities are significantly diminished.

[@trumpforever6706]

Imagine what would happen if the US also lost satellite superiority. Putin and Russia knows it.

[@vonilao2209]

they let to retire those things, .. i noticed that it uses propeller, so? it is low flying craft

[@vonilao2209]

​@@trumpforever6706 i think, it wont happen, USA has SPACEX That send 60 satellite per lanch, if u kill a satellite, they send MORE satellites , so? they run out of rockets and thats not economical if they try 😎😎😎😎😎 ubos

[@balachdr5]

They put GOD willing in front of any announcement.

[@quino7557]

Smart, putting in the creators hands

[@danielmartin7838]

Their god is not!

[@quino7557]

@@danielmartin7838 we all have the same god, just because you speak a different language or live in a different area or call your god a different name, doesn’t mean its any different from any one else is god, that just divided and concur

[@ricomiller1713]

Why did you change the subtitles to Houthi when he mentioned Yemeni armed forces ?

[@user-ww7uj2fw7w]

This is why Americans dont have free Healthcare 💪🏼💪🏼🇾🇪😎

[@ziaulahsan6169]

The Pentagon needs an even bigger budget now. Getting humiliated by Houthies is unacceptable. 5th fleet is a useless floating toy or what?

[@Dravidian-Secularism]

usa weapons are flying coffin 😂😂😂

[@loranmarmes]

You get that there is nobody in the drone right?

[@SevenHeadViper]

The reaper is not cheap bro

[@loranmarmes]

@@SevenHeadViper Yes, it is compared to a manned fighter, that is why they get used in areas like that. The reaper is getting phased out also.

[@quanboi420]

@@SevenHeadVipercompared to our yearly defense budget it is😂

[@karrole88]

​@@loranmarmesI am 💯 % sure F35 is worse.

[@hakimdrammeh6787]

This is the second time within a week that the HOUTIS are downing a US MQ9 drone, taking the total to 5 US technology and war machines are overrated. This further proves that how how sophisticated Iranian technologies are ,

[@qefewfwdcwdc]

HAHAAHHAA what a dreamer.

[@mehdideilami3888]

This is the 6th drone downed by the Houthis

[@vncnthgy]

"sophisticated Iranian technologies" so what happened to the president and the helicopter he's in? 💀

[@MThgv]

You need a reality check😂

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@@qefewfwdcwdc what a bot

[@monahaque1660]

Shouldn't there be an international law that needs to be abided by ALL COUNTRIES irrespective of their might at that point in time, to protect & RESPECT THE SOVEREIGNTY of OTHER NATIONS & NOT TRESPASS THEIR AIRSPACE?

[@dirtman5045]

the west is about to learn that ansarullah are NOT somali pirates. and the west will be humiliated even more infront of the whole world.

[@TornadoOfCards]

Wtf are my idiot military doing? Those things are 30 mill a pop. My tax dollars getting wasted. Whoever is controlling those things, I think you might wanna replace him. Smh.

[@rxonmymind8362]

That drone operator is flying really low. They keep making the same mistakes again and again and not learning from the previous mistake. WTF.

[@quanboi420]

So that wouldn’t even cost a cent to you😂especially when our yearly defense spending is 900 Billion😂

[@user-ng9tm6nx1b]

Seems like Biden is piloting those drones 😂

[@TornadoOfCards]

@@user-ng9tm6nx1b you would think 😂. I can see him now sitting in a nice plush recliner with his ice cream in one hand and a controller of a 30 million dollar drone in the other. Smh.

[@TornadoOfCards]

@@quanboi420 I didn't say I bought the damn thing. But parts of our tax dollars are getting destroyed none the less.

[@user-dc7nt5od3u]

Parabéns 🤝 por ter conseguido isso os americano São apoiadores das maldades do governo israelenses a muitos anos parabéns Houthis rezbolllah Irã 🤝 ass:Isaias do Brasil apoiando Palestina Houthis

[@FopaSado]

Plus de 60 millions de dollars du contribuable américains perdu en à peine deux semaines.

[@rxonmymind8362]

They have already brought down for them. Two of them were shot down before this article in the United States blamed some glitch in the Drone. This makes four drones.

[@glumour3081]

the prowess of American military equipment; tanks, fighter planes, drones, etc... only for military parades, not for conventional war Proff. Wolff

[@ShahNawazKhan-ud4sv]

Allahhumdolillah

[@sanjayjadhav3435]

Yeman proves that they can down even f35 and rapter also.

[@jay5968]

These are like 30 million dollar drones too btw😂

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[@kalayksfuwant8523]

pfffftttt 😂😂😂😂😂😂 MQ-9 Reaper downed by fire crackers 😂😂😂😂😂 USA the strongest military in the world next to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Yemen 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@HarveyDent-hr5hk]

Mor0n

[@kalayksfuwant8523]

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[@karrole88]

​@@HarveyDent-hr5hkdeep down you know he is right.

[@scholesred1833]

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[@nilarnilar970]

Yaman is ❤❤

[@notout841]

Ansarullah ❤

[@narayan1916]

some hit planes and helicopters where others drones.... yet not balance, and there won't be. both sides are asked: let's stick to humanity and stop war

[@centrilla1169]

This drone has a shorter life expectancy.

[@davidrobert7180]

If it was Russian drone, we won’t hear word

[@_ace786]

They keep sending this scrap....

[@alejandrojr.albarracin4432]

Shut!! I don't unederstand !!!????

[@d_lollol524]

US should use stealthy drones that hover on very high altitude .

[@karrole88]

Your technology is overrated and useless junks, including F35

[@LeoAugustoRovin420]

It's stupid to make expensive drones, wouldn't cheap cost efficient be better ?

[@quanboi420]

Well they aren’t expensive to us because we spend $900 billion yearly on defense🤷‍♂️

[@FopaSado]

​@@quanboi420en vivant au dessus de vos moyens avec une dette de plus de 33,0000 milliards de dollars. Bientôt la planche à billet ne fonctionnera plus'

[@oqilbekaxmatov-no6zh]

Omad Alloh panohida asrasin amin

[@SevenHeadViper]

31 million dollars per drone, do the math, your toilet paper cost you $25 now.

[@user-nf6pn8rk7w]

بذن الله اليمن يرجع من الدول ال٦ العظمى والله ماشي عنده مستحيل

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i is operational use force contact

[@huzib.8623]

Not in CNN

[@119Augusta]

👍👍👍Houthi加油💪💪💪

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[@williamnguyen7641]

The US citizens has paid Taxes for the Arsenal and for the support to Israel and in the end what’s profit for US people in return ?!?

[@Ar-ti]

Still like the pink hat

[@umarkhan2222]

Billion dollars turn into shit

[@vishal7731]

Thats most expensive 🫰

[@rizwansardar2347]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ruling BJP government in June 2023 announced to acquire 31 MQ-9B armed drones from US estimated cost of USD 3.99 billion. Such advanced drone was downed by Houthi, Yemen like Indians playing kite festival.

[@Amine--Z]

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[@AsJOKER960]

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[@user-ez1lq2hn9v]

I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 6 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 15,000 Yemenis among us, and now we owe 45,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if one of us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967717415667 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/--~«««~-♡~♡~♡~~•~•~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡♡♡~~~: ~:~¡~¡~¡~;I.i.i.i.i.i. i.I.|-........،...

[@abushahab-sf2hl]

نصاااااااااااااااب في شكل فتاه لاستعطاف الناس

[@user-pf6yd9we6z]

اطورت الئ الانجليزيه عصابه مافيا هاذي انتبهو

[@il_yasin]

شمتوا بنا انتي لستي يمنية

[@shakirmengal8340]

Appreciated 👍

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No problem , they will put it under Jesus travel expenses account heading 😅

[@samanthagoodwin2369]

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[@akahoswu]

What are US doing.just watching movie.

[@mysticjoy2924]

30 Million dollars 💰🤑 one of them 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂and half of America is addicted or homeless

[@yvonnefurniss138]

Boeing Drones. 😆😆

[@user-tn4wc2xt5u]

USA is crumbling down every Ware end of an area is visible in every sector if you compared their infrastructures to other country s like china Russia you can clearly see the poor state of USA china Russia has more modern transformation facilities now next to Euro countries while USA very out dated and poor conditions

[@pourzadzahedi2758]

Il y 'avait un missile sur cette drone .et l'Iran le voulais depuis longtemps maintenant c'est fait .sans doute il est déjà en Iran plus la reste de ce drone .merci les Americain .envoyer des nouveaux drones on a besoin .

[@quanboi420]

Oh no, 30 Mil out of our 900 Bil yearly defense spending what will we ever do!!!😢😂

[@johnjohn-gt4eg]

cope harder..... what are you trying to prove??? america got money???

[@mehdideilami3888]

​@@johnjohn-gt4eg And with a projected debt of 40 trillion soon, BRICS countries will make it impossible for you to afford spending even 100 billion annually within less than a decade."

[@cosmos4003]

He is trying to tell us that the american tax payers are sheeps and they wouldn't be questioning their leaders about wasting their resources for no strategic reasons. Let the yemeni military air defense continue training lol

[@John-il4mp]

The problem is usa spend like 700 bilion with all the bases over sea not in fabrication lol... you guys dont think with your head.... Usa spend most of there budget on maintaining all there basé and soldier around the world. If you lucky they are spending maybe 20% on fabrication.

[@johnjohn-gt4eg]

@@John-il4mp The most recent data from the US Census Bureau shows that the national poverty rate is 11.5%. To put that into perspective, that's 37.9 million people living in poverty in America.

[@ibrohimmadymarov1054]

Да здравствует ЕМЕН

[@Faiez-rh1gm]

How dare they shoot down the So Called Global super power MQ drone

[@ronnybe7994]

Embarrassing

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[@5254m]

MAY ALLAH PROTECT ALL OF UMMAH❤

[@user-vo2hg4dl1p]

😂

[@gazh4984]

The 5th down and all the same picture and video of all 5, yeah I’ll know who illl believe

[@apizzo007]

It's only a drone and the intel gathered and the subsequent strikes after are more than just a drone

[@user-oc1cg4ui1w]

🇺🇲😭🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@simonschulz415]

Hilarious more taxpayer money in the toilet ❤❤

[@Infiniti_Rico]

Meanwhile children in Yemen are so hungry that they eat their own hands. Lol

[@quino7557]

Americans can’t afford food, inflation, whats your point? Everyone is starving

[@messianic_scam]

oh Zionist messianic rico pico only what your schemming govs other than that we have no food problem

[@karrole88]

Millions of Americans including military veterans are homeless and eating their shit.

[@Animation68990]

No bro they eat missiles

[@quino7557]

@@Animation68990 i wonder how you would feel if you were eating missiles, at least they’re fight back while your being a tough guy on internet in your mother’s basement

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Use pland like s counter measures

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[@user-zm6qe1uu2n]

Yemen 🇾🇪 is superpower of zioinst superpowers 😂

[@pradipnandy8220]

He is the next quasim soleimani

[@Abdus-em6hj]

this is future of usa

[@abizerchhatriwala2354]

This is the time to make UNA (UNITED NATION OF ARAB) stand Together to make new nation....

[@komporme7470]

There will be a time that this houthi spokeperson will be stop shouting like raisi😂😂😂😂

[@AmirAmir-hc5vc]

لا تقلق كثيرا . اليمن وإيران ليس بلدين عقيمين. فهناك دائما رجال يولدون

[@komporme7470]

@@AmirAmir-hc5vc you know nothing.