Yemeni forces shoot down three US Reaper drones, with Jon Elmer

We are going to move to Yemen now. Um, the resistance in Yemen has continued this week. We pull up this first map to let you get situated. We are now at 40 straight days of US assault on Yemen, predominantly uh in the SA and Sada areas on the western edge of Yemen, but further to the east as well. There's been a number of strikes in Marib Province um that suggest perhaps preparing for um this mercenary uh ground attack that the Americans have been talking about. Um there's been more than a thousand air strikes according to uh Ansarah and the United States Central Command released a statement this week again saying that their operations are 247. They've killed hundreds of people. uh they attacked uh many civilian mostly in in a lot of cases each day most of the targets on a day-to-day basis are civilian targets um and their ability to reach the mountain the buried um installations that Allah and the many armed forces have in the mountains which we'll see coming up um makes uh the aerial attacks by the US um are not destroying the capability of the Yemeni armed forces in Ansar Allah to carry carry out the blockade in the Red Sea. Um, if we look at the next slide, you can see the range of the missiles. I showed you this last week, but I threw it back in this week. Um, because yesterday, for the first time, um, there was air raid sirens in Hifa. So, Palestine 2 ballistic missile fired from Yemen um was on its way to uh, Hifa so they can reach um, the furthest northern areas of Israel. Um and so that's why I have those missile ranges there and also the drone ranges. Um because there was drone attacks also yesterday uh YAFA drone attack against Tel Aviv and there was three of those uh this week. If we look at the next slide, this is the positioning of the US Navy vessels. This is from the United States Naval Institute. So they're showing you the positions. The Harry S. Truman carrier strike group is north of Yemen. It's north of um Jedda in Saudi Arabia. Uh it's around Yanbu and it hasn't come closer than that um on any satellite imagery that we've seen. They're staying um as far out of range uh up in the north of the Red Sea as possible. The USS Benson uh carrier strike group arrived last week into the theater uh as the military calls it off the they're off the coast of Oman right now. They are also staying 5 700 kilometers um even more back from uh Yemen especially back from western Yemen where the missiles the ballistic missiles um the anti-ship missiles the anti-ship cruise missiles and the drones are launched against these vessels and as soon as the Vincan uh arrived in theater it was hit with um a simultaneous attack uh the Yemeni armed forces hit the tum man carrier strike group and its warships and the Vincent's uh carrier strike group and its warships with multiple um anti-hship cruise missiles and drones um 10 in all simultaneously um and that goes along with uh some numbers that uh Abdul Malik al- Houthi the leader of analah said in his Thursday speech uh last week he said that there um had been 78 operations this month um by the Yemeni armed forces that included 171 ballistic cruise uh ballistic and cruise missiles and drones. There was 33 operations so far against the Truman carrier strike group, 122 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, um anti-ship ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles, um and drones versus the Truman. And there's been 26 operations uh against Israel with more than 30 missiles. In that speech, um uh Abdel Malik Alhouthi said, "I call on our dear people to turn out in massive numbers tomorrow in the capital SA and the rest of the provinces according to our arrangements." And did they ever. And they do this every single week, these remarkable demonstrations, massive demonstrations uh in support of both Palestine and in the in support of Yemen fighting for Palestine. Um these massive demonstrations. There's another uh image of it and these speeches by Abdul Malik Alhouthi. I reported a few weeks ago Abu Hamza um postumous speech that was delivered um to a conference in Yemen said that uh that they the fighters on the front lines in Gaza all sit and listen to Abdul Malik al- Houthi's speeches every week on Thursdays. Um and he and Abu uh Abu Hamza said that they listen to them as if he were in the heart of Gaza with the fighters. So um massive demonstrations, massive popular support. So any idea, any talk of the Americans uh in this mercenary ground war where they would have the UAE mercenaries, Saudi mercenaries um and American mercenary companies uh fighting in this war. These demonstrations um show that that is not going to be uh an easy battle if that is the way that this goes. Um and Anar Allah has said that to open this battlefield. They're more than ready for that if that is what is come. Um, if the next slide we look at, we got also a number of Reaper drones down this week. Answer a lot uh showed us this video. Believe these are uh the 358 when you see the um the targeting screen like that. And these drones uh these Reaper drones are very important to the US fight right now because they don't have troops on the ground. They have very little intelligence. We know they're getting some intelligence from the Israelis, but they don't have much intelligence either. And the kind of strikes that the Americans are are launching require on the ground uh information about where to hit. Um, and because of these anti- air because of their air defense systems shooting these drones down, um, the American ships, um, they stay way back, but also the fighter jets that are on the aircraft carriers, they stay far back out of, uh, Yemeni airspace. They're not traveling over like they do in Gaza um, and tearing through the sky and dropping bombs. They're firing long range um uh joint strike munitions that are um far outside the reach of uh air defenses because they're afraid of the many air defenses. So they rely on these reaper drones. And because of that uh the Yemenes have been harvesting these um these reapers, these $30 million drones that we've seen in every sort of uh disrepair like these this guy going through the black box here. Um and these drones, this is drone number 20 um that Ansar Allah has downed. The uh Yemenes are saying this is America under our feet. Um also in Gaza this week, there was reports from sources in Gaza saying they saw MQ9 Reapers flying over Gaza as well. Something that's happened since October. Um so these are the same drones in the same uh battle spaces. And the next one um is another reaper that we can see. We have zoomed in on this one to show you. Um this is one of the few I'm not sure if we've seen another one in actual uh descent like this, but this is an armed uh drone clearly. You can see the munitions explode there over to the right side of the screen. Massive explosion. And the missiles that are hanging off the wings of the Reapers are part of the reason why they're so easy uh relatively easy to pluck out of the air. Radar, they make a massive radar signature. Um with those heavy uh shiny missiles hanging off the wings, um they're low, they're slow, they're lumbering. Um and the uh Yemenes are able to move their anti- um anti-aircraft uh missile defense into position, launch and hit these reapers out of the sky and then get away. Scoot and shoot, shoot and scoot and they are not getting hit. So the there's no followup to this. And you can see these mountains in this shot. These mountains are the mountains where the missile facilities, the missile bases are built into these mountains. Um so it's very difficult and one of the reasons why the B2 bombers have been brought in is um to drop heavier ordinance than the F-18s can drop that take off from the aircraft carriers because um they're buried missile facilities that are not being uh that are not being reached. Um the Yemeni armed forces said that they would match escalation for escalation. Um they have been ready for um for that escalation uh of the ground war. They said that they are ready for it. Um Fox uh the many on the scene in this video. He says that let the world know we have shot down American drones during the Biden era and we will shoot down many more during the Trump era. A Pentagon official told Fox News this week that the United States had 230 Reapers as of uh late 2024. So, we're talking about Ansar wiping out 10% of the Reaper fleet and they've taken seven in this uh month alone, which we can see, look at those mountains. So, that's that's uh that's where the missile bases are. They're buried deep in those mountains. And that's um how they've indigenously produced these weapons um and why they are largely safe from US attack. You can see on the last slide here um that answer Allah has been showing you uh has been showing us every time they down one. Um this is the 22nd downed since uh October 7th and the 26th overall because um the Amen started downing drones um during the American Saudi war uh on Yemen over the previous decade. So that is the resistance report um for this week, day 566 of the war in Gaza. [Music] Hey, hey, hey.