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| Date: | Saturday 8 June 2019 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | West Coast, Hodeidah Governorate -
 Yemen
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Crashed at desert during night. It was targeted by Houti plot system. Most possible it was a R-27T or R-73E air to air rocked adopted to launch from earth platform.
After crash landed, damaged drone was bombed by coalition aircraft.
Sources:
https://southfront.org/houthis-released-video-showing-surface-to-air-missile-launch-at-u-s-mq-9-combat-drone/
https://www.yemenpress.org/yemen/images-yemeni-troops-shoot-down-us-mq9-drone-in-yemens-west-coast/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jun-2019 16:03 | plcedi | Added |
| 15-Mar-2020 20:02 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
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