Alwaght- A domestically-manufactured Yemeni ballistic missile has successfully targeted a Saudi radar station in the kingdom's southwestern border region of Asir.
According to the official Yemeni news agency, Saba, Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees launched the retaliatory missile attack that destroyed the radar station in Asir.
The ballistic Badr-1 missile struck the designated target just outside Khamis Mushait city, located 884 kilometers southwest of the capital Riyadh, with great precision on Sunday, Saba reported.
Sources say apart from inflicting heavy damage to the Radars the missile also killed an unspecified number of Saudi troopers.
On Friday, Yemeni forces struck Saudi regime's Quwat al- Wageb military base with short-range Badr-1 missile and inflicted damage on the camp, killing and wounding an unspecified number of Saudi troopers.
The development comes days after Yemeni forces fired a ballistic missile at Aramco storage tanks in Saudi Arabia's southwestern Jizan region. Shortly after the announcement, the kingdom’s state-run al-Ekhbariya television network claimed that the missile was downed by the Saudi air defenses over the skies above the region.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition, in a bid to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Over 14,000 Yemenis have been killed and tens of thousands injured in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them being civilians, especially women and children.
However, the allied forces of the Yemeni army and popular committees established by Ansarullah revolutionaries have been heroically confronting the aggression with all means, inflicting huge losses upon Saudi-led forces.
The Saudi-led coalition – which also includes UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Kuwait – has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of the aggression.
