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editor of every economic report: bi luming

according to cctv news, on the night of september 7th local time, yahya saraiya, a spokesman for the yemeni houthi armed forces, said in a speech that the houthi armed forces shot down a us military mq-9 drone over the country's marib province.

in early august,yemen's houthi armed forces claimed to have shot down another us mq-9 drone. yemen's houthi armed forces spokesman yahya saraiya said on august 4 that the organization shot down another us mq-9 reaper drone in saada province in northern yemen.

in a statement issued on the same day, sarea said that the houthi air defense forces used a "homemade surface-to-air missile" to shoot down the drone, which was carrying out "hostile actions" against the houthi armed forces. sarea did not disclose the specific time when the drone was shot down, but claimed that this was the seventh time the organization had shot down this type of drone since october last year.

it is reported that mq-9 is also known as "reaper".nickname: "death"it is an enlarged version of the us military's mq-1 "predator" drone. it is a long-flight, medium-to-high altitude large-scale "reconnaissance and strike" drone developed by general atomics of the united states. it is also considered to be the most powerful multi-functional drone in the united states. it contains some of the most advanced american technology. it is currently only sold to a few nato allies such as britain, france, germany and italy, with a unit price of up to us$32 million (approximately rmb 220 million).

according to cctv global news radio, the basic driving force behind the development of drones is modern warfare, and the united states, which has brought the world into war mode, has naturally become the leader in the drone field.

the u.s. military drones were put into combat in the vietnam war, and then appeared in the middle east war, the gulf war, the kosovo war, the afghanistan war, the iraq war and other local wars directly or indirectly launched and participated by the united states. after that, they appeared frequently. among them, the mq-9 reaper has been active in various corners of the middle east for a long time and can be said to be the drone with the most actual combat times in the world.

the most provocative combat experience of mq-9 in recent years was the launch of a hellfire air-to-ground missile outside baghdad international airport in iraq on january 3, 2020, which killed soleimani, a senior general of the iranian islamic revolutionary guard corps.

after the new round of israeli-palestinian conflict broke out in october last year, the houthi armed forces used drones and missiles to attack targets in the red sea and the gulf of aden, demanding that israel stop its military operations in the gaza strip. since january 12 this year, the united states and the united kingdom have launched air strikes on houthi armed targets many times, causing casualties. some countries condemned the actions of the united states and britain, believing that this was an infringement on yemen's sovereignty and would exacerbate regional tensions.

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