{"id":282118,"date":"2024-02-20T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282118"},"modified":"2024-02-22T07:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T07:31:43","slug":"houthis-claim-to-shoot-down-us-mq-9-reaper-drone-in-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282118","title":{"rendered":"Houthis claim to shoot down US MQ-9 Reaper drone in Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Greg Norman, Liz Friden \u2013 Fox News Feb 19, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Two U.S. officials have confirmed to Fox News that an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/military\/air-force\">Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone<\/a> crashed near Yemen after Houthi rebels claimed to have shot down an American aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 crashed off the coast of Hodeidah, Yemen, and are investigating the cause,&#8221; a U.S. official told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The officials stressed that it was unclear if the Houthis were involved. If they are, it would be the second time since November 2023 that the Iranian-backed militant group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/iran-backed-houthis-shoot-down-us-reaper-drone-coast-yemen\">has taken out a Reaper drone,<\/a> which has a wingspan of 66 feet and costs about $32 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Hodeidah, the Yemeni air defenses were able to shoot down an American plane \u2013 MQ-9 \u2013 with a suitable missile while it was carrying out hostile missions against our country on behalf of the Zionist entity,&#8221; Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said earlier in a statement, referencing Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The drone crash comes as U.S. forces in the region continue to strike at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/middle-east\">Houthi targets in Yemen<\/a> in response to the militants targeting commercial ships transiting the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Houthis released a video showing an MQ-9 Reaper drone being shot down on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that a U.S. military MQ-9 remotely-piloted aircraft was shot down off the coast of Yemen by Houthi forces,&#8221; a senior U.S. official told Fox News at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/houthis-claim-shoot-down-us-mq9-reaper-drone-red-sea\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials have confirmed that a Reaper drone has crashed near Yemen although they didn\u2019t elaborate on the cause. If indeed the Houthis were responsible it will be the second Reaper drone they have downed. The Iranian-backed militants shot down another US Reaper last November   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":47653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282119,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282118\/revisions\/282119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}