Yemen wants killer UAS

Yemen wants killer UAS

כטב"ם Harop בתצוגת האוויר בפריז. תמונה: Defense Update

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Yemen has asked Washington to provide it with armed unmanned air systems (UAS). “I have talked with the US administration about helping us with this technology … Yemenis are clever and can understand it very quickly,” President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi said in a speech reported by the Saba state news agency late Thursday.

Harop killer drone on-display at the paris Airshow.Photo Defense-Update
Harop killer drone on-display at the paris Airshow.Photo Defense-Update

Armed UAS have killed dozens of militants from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, and only the United States possesses such aircraft in the region.

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Hadi defended the use of UAS by saying they were more precise than other weapons.

The cooperation in the field of combating terrorism is not a secret,” said Hadi, referring to his country’s US-backed fight against al-Qaida militants.

HAROP Loitering Weapon in its container-launcher, on display at the Paris Airshow. Photo - Defense Update
HAROP Loitering Weapon in its container-launcher, on display at the Paris Airshow. Photo – Defense Update

We are part of an operations room in Djibouti, and have officers who are part of a control room in Bahrain, in an international military effort to combat and watch terrorists,” he said.

The United States closed 19 diplomatic missions in Muslim countries on Aug. 4 after reported intelligence intercepts from al-Qaida suggested an attack was imminent.

The US embassy in Sanaa, which was seen as the epicenter of the threat, remained shut for two weeks.

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