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@VleckieHond
Sep 1, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Time for my monthly #Yemen UAV roundup for August 2021. As always claimed means no visual confirmation.
1st - A Qasef is downed in Rabaha district, south Marib
2nd - Houthi forces shoot down a large quadcopter described as a reconnaissance drone in Hudaydah governorate. It's actually modified to drop 120mm mortal shells.
3rd - A Rased modified to drop 60mm mortar shells crashes north of Al-Jah, Hudaydah governorate.
4th - Saudis claim downing a bomb-laden UAV towards Khamis Mushait.
4th - A Rased crashes in a refugee camp east of Marib
8th - A Dji Mavic 2 Pro/Zoom modified to drop a small explosive is shot down by pro-Gov forces in Baqim, Sa'ada. No, the 1st and 4th pic aren't the same.
9th - Saudis claim downing 2 bomb-laden UAVs towards Khamis Mushait.
13th - Saudis claim downing a bomb-laden UAV towards Khamis Mushait.
14th - Pro-gov forces claim downing 2 bomb-laden UAVs in Sirwah, west-Marib.
14th - Houthis down a Scan Eagle in Maghdal district, west-Marib.
19th - Saudis claim downing a bomb-laden UAV over Yemen, towards SA.
20th - Pro-gov forces down a Qasef in Al-Baqaa, Sa'ada.
22nd - Saudis claim downing a bomb-laden UAV towards Khamis Mushait.
24th - Saudis claim downing a bomb-laden UAV towards Khamis Mushait.
25th - Saudis claim downing a bomb-laden UAV towards Khamis Mushait.
26th - STC-forces down a Samad-1 in the Karsh area of Lahj governorate
26th - Pro-gov forces claim downing a drone on Kassara-front, west-Marib
27th - Saudis claim downing a bomb-laden UAV towards Khamis Mushait
28th - Saudis claim downing 2 bomb-laden UAVs towards Khamis Mushait
29th - Saudis claim downing 3 bomb-laden UAVs towards Khamis Mushait.
30th - Pro-gov forces down a modified DJI Mavic 2 Pro/Zoom on Kassara front, West-Marib.
30th - A Samad-1 crashes in Al-Nadira district, Ibb governorate.
31st - Saudis claim downing 2 bomb-laden UAVs, both close to Abha airport, the shrapnel of the second injured 8 and caused material damage to among other stuff, an Airbus A320. Pictures are of the remains of the second drone, it's a Qasef.
That's it for this month. Not much out of the usual. Uptick in attacks on SA at the end of the month mirrors escalation in Marib, keeping a few F-15s away from the battlefield.

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Allright, time for me to go through the mud.
Based on satellite imagery I'd marked this quarry as an underground base, and tweeted is out as such.
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Privately I had it marked as a *possible* underground base, a category more for private use, to check up on these sites when there's new imagery. I should have never posted it.
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Allright, lets go through the Israeli strikes from yesterday.
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To get what's being built at Rayyan airport near Mukalla I've ordered some high-resolution imagery Pleiades imagery from the 13th of October. Findings on that imagery will be presented in this thread. Thread on lower res imagery:
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There's also been various other smaller construction projects around the airport visible on the imagery, but these three are easily the most notable.
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I missed it for a bit but a rather interesting drone crashed in Al-Mahrah on August 6th.
It seems to be a Boeing Insitu Integrator Extended Range. I've color-coded some of the debris with their origin.
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Second one with debris allows for a location of actual crashsite. I'm not completely sure about the bushes, but it's at least very close.
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Translation from Houthi: we don't know where our own mines are. Buried cluster bombs... Seriously?
1 - Coalition use of cluster bombs post 2017 is extremely rare at the most, likely stopped altogether. Fighting hadn't reached the mentioned areas by then. Any remaining bombs from the rarer air raids prior to that would be rare.
2 - We know what the Houthi side of the old Hudaydah frontlines looked like since Joint forces captured a good section around Hays. It's mines all the way unsurprisingly. We know they're there in Durayhimi and Tuhaytah too.
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Something's that bothered me for long time now is the proper identification for the Houthi Rujum UAV. whilst it's obviously a modified commercial, the one I've named until now, Yangda's YD6-1000S, didn't have the right shape for the arms, nor the right attachment point for them.
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Whilst I couldn't find a picture of a LY-866 with this colour scheme, I did find one of its slightly smaller variant the LY-866S. (Span without propellors is 1.6 metres for 866, 1.25 for 866S) Therefore I find it likely the LY-866 also exists with this colour arrangement.
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