{"id":148928,"date":"2024-11-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-mq-9-reaper-drones-shot-down-over-yemen\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:00:12","slug":"why-are-so-many-us-mq-9-reaper-drones-being-shot-down-over-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=148928","title":{"rendered":"Why Are So Many US MQ-9 Reaper Drones Being Shot Down Over Yemen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> has long         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028759\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-does-usaf-use-mq-9-reaper-drone\/\" >used the MQ-9 Reaper drone to carry out ISR and surgical strike missions<\/a><\/span> in many low-intensity conflict zones around the world. While the fact that low-tech             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"55281\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/yemen\/\"  >Yemen<\/a><\/span> Houthi rebels are constantly shooting the Reapers down proves they are vulnerable, that doesn&#8217;t mean they are obsolete &#8211; as is shown in         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032987\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-india-buy-31-general-atomics-mq-9b-reaper-drones\/\" >India moving to purchase 31 MQ-9B drones for patrol missions<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps well over a dozen advanced US drones have been shot down or otherwise lost over Yemen, underscoring their vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4160,567,423,1328,9900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-drones","category-guides","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force","category-yemen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148929,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148928\/revisions\/148929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}