00:09The video is stunning. A fireball mid-air over the desert of Yemen's Marib province and falling
00:17through that fireball the wreckage of a 30 million dollar American drone. The Houthis say
00:24they shot it down. The footage is circulating globally and the Pentagon silent. Here's what
00:30we know from the videos and images spreading across social media right now. Residents in
00:36Marib city heard loud explosions overhead. They looked up and watched an air defense missile launch
00:42from the Sarwa area west of the city. Then two explosions in the air in rapid succession. What
00:49came down landed in a desert area east of the Wadi district and the debris field is telling.
00:55Images show a tail section reportedly marked RSF 1311 consistent with an MQ-9 Reaper airframe.
01:04Open source analysts examining the wreckage have confirmed the match but that's not the
01:10most interesting part of what's on the ground. Scattered among the debris would appear to be
01:15remnants of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. Specifically a variant called the R9X nicknamed the ninja missile
01:24or the flying Ginsu. A weapon so precise it deploys spinning blades instead of an explosive warhead
01:32to eliminate targets without a blast radius. This drone wasn't just watching it was armed. The MQ-9 Reaper
01:40is one of America's most capable and most deployed military drones. It can fly for over 30 hours without
01:48landing. It operates at high altitude controlled via satellite from thousands of miles away. It carries
01:55surveillance equipment targeting systems and precision munitions, Hellfire missiles, laser guided bombs.
02:02The US military has used it extensively in Yemen for counterterrorism operations and surveillance.
02:08Each unit costs roughly $30 million. And that's before you factor in the weapons payload. It is,
02:15by any measure, a serious and expensive piece of military hardware. And the Houthis just knocked one
02:22out of the sky over Mareeb. This is not the first time. Not even close. Since 2023, the Houthis have
02:30claimed
02:30dozens of MQ-9 shootdowns, though U.S. confirmation has been selective and rare. American officials
02:38typically stay quiet on drone losses in Yemen, neither confirming nor denying until evidence becomes
02:44impossible to dispute. As of right now, the Pentagon has not confirmed the loss. CENTCOM has not commented.
02:52The U.S. Air Force is silent. But the footage is out. The debris is on the ground. The tail
02:57section number
02:58is in the images. And open source analysts around the world are already doing the work the military
03:05won't. A $30 million armed American drone carrying ninja missiles went up over Yemen's Mareeb province.
03:13It did not come back down in one piece.
03:28It did not come back to one India and never miss an update. Download the one India app now.
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