Yemeni Air Defense of the Army and Popular Committees intercepted and targeted early Wednesday a Chinese-made combat drone run by the US-Saudi aggression in Marib governorate.
“Our air defense shot down a Chinese-made CH4 combat unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the Saudi Air Force in the early hours of this morning with a surface-to-air missile,” Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said in a brief statement.
Sare’e explained that the drone was shot down while it was carrying out hostile acts over Al-Juba district in Marib.
The CH-4, has a wingspan of 18m, a take-off weight of 1.3 tons and a payload of 350kg. The Chinese UAV can carry a payload including Lan Jian 7 (Blue Arrow 7) laser-guided air-to-surface missiles, TG100 laser/INS/GPS-guided bombs, and AR-1/HJ-10 anti-tank missile – the Chinese equivalent to the American-made Hellfire missile.
In the outcome of the air defense’s achievements, the coalition of aggression lost dozens of its various aircraft, warplanes and drones.
