Alwaght- Yemen Air Defense Forces (YADF) introduced a domestically developed surface-to-air missile system.
According to the country’s official Saba News Agency, the new missile system has already shut down the Saudi-led coalition’s UK-supplied Tornado military aircraft while it was flying over Saada province and in the meantime, targeted another enemy’s US-supplied F-15 plane over the capital Sana’a, the Yemeni Air Force and Air Defense said in a statement released on Tuesday.
It said that despite enemy attacks to get the Yemen’s Air Defense System out of service, the unit has revived gradually and now was able to attack enemy military aircrafts,” read the statement.
The Yemeni Air Force and Air Defense Unit vowed to keep developing the air defense system to defend the homeland against foreign attacks.
The report did not reveal the type of this system as it wants it to be surprise for Saudi-led aggression forces so they may not buy new defenses for it.
Yemen occasionally announces production of sophisticated homegrown weapons that can be independently verified.
The statement issued by air defense forces, said minutes ago, that the missile system is “a completely indigenous technology.”
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for almost three years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Nearly 14,000 Yemenis, mostly women, children and the elderly, have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war. The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic and famine across Yemen.
