News - Yemen:   The Yemeni Air Defenses of the Army and Popular Committees has shot down a Chinese-made spy drone run by the Saudi Air Force in Hajjah Governorate on Thursday.

 "The air defenses shot down a CH-4 spy drone operated by the Saudi Air Force,” the Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said in a brief statement.

The Armed Forces spokesman indicated that the operation of shooting down the drone was carried out with an undisclosed surface-to-air missile over Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate.

The defenses of the Yemeni Armed Forces have shot down four ScanEagle spy drones last December in Al-Jawf and Marib governorates, in addition to a number of Chinese-made spy drones in Shabwa governorate.

On the 30th of January, a ScanEagle drone was shot down with an undisclosed missile over Marib Governorate.

The Air Defenses were also able, on December 8, 2021, to shoot down a CH-4 spy drone in Al-Wadi district in Marib, in addition to another ScanEagle drone over Al-Juba region in the same governorate. 

Enjoying complete arms, logistical, and political support on the part of the US, Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies started a war against Yemen in March 2015 to restore power to Yemen's former Washington and Riyadh-aligned officials.

The war has stopped way short of the goal, while killing tens of thousands of Yemenis in the process and pushing the entire Yemen close to the brink of outright famine.

The Yemeni Armed Forces have vowed, though, not to lay down their arms until Yemen's complete liberation from the US-Saudi aggression.

Saudi Arabia is keen to bring in combat drones from multiple countries to gain qualitative air superiority, most notably US, China and Turkey.
 
With the ability of the Yemeni air defense to shoot down these drones despite their development, it limits the air superiority of the coalition of aggression, thus weakening the card it is betting on in the battlefield.
 
In the outcome of the air defense's achievements, the coalition of aggression lost dozens of its various aircraft, warplanes and drones.