United States Air Force MQ-9 Reaper Shot down

Yemen's Houthis claimed to have shot down a US MQ-9 Reaper over Yemen on 25 April 2024, releasing night-time footage of a surface-to-air missile launch and explosion and daytime video of wreckage including a tail section, propeller, engine and wing parts marked General Atomics, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine. A Pentagon spokesperson acknowledged that an MQ-9 had gone down in Yemen and said the crash was under investigation. The Associated Press located the loss over Saada in northern Yemen. It was the third Reaper shot down by the Houthis in six months, after the aircraft lost off Yemen in November 2023 and over the Red Sea in February 2024.