Houthis claim Saudi F-15 destroyed over Marib
Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Wednesday that it had shot down a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 fighter jet over Marib province, a claim that Saudi authorities had not confirmed and that could not immediately be independently verified. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the aircraft was brought down with a locally manufactured surface-to-air missile while conducting what he described as…
Yemen's Houthi movement claimed on Wednesday that it had shot down a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 jet over Marib province. The Saudi government had not yet confirmed the incident, and it could not be independently verified. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the fighter was brought down by a locally-made surface-to-air missile during hostile operations.
He provided no details about the aircraft's crew, the crash site, or the time of the engagement. Saudi Arabia's government and the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen did not issue any public confirmation of the loss by Wednesday afternoon. No independently authenticated imagery of the wreckage or other evidence supporting the F-15 loss was available at the time of publication.
Houthi air-defense units allegedly confronted two formations of Saudi F-15 and Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft that Saree said were searching for the wreckage, forcing them to withdraw. That assertion also remained unverified.
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