Beginning in 2015, Saudi Arabia led a coalition of forces to intervene in the civil war in Yemen. Different types of airframes like fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and drones have been lost due to accident or enemy action in the course of the war.
Piston and jet aircraft losses | ||
---|---|---|
Airframe | Destroyed | Hostile fire |
Beechcraft Super King Air | 1 | 1 |
Ilyushin Il-76 | 1 | 1 |
CASA CN-235M-300 | 1 | 1 |
IOMAX AT-802i BPA | 1 | - |
MiG-29 | 2 | 2 |
Su-22 | 4 | 4 |
Su-24 | 1 | 1 |
Eurofighter Typhoon | 1 | - |
Boeing F-15S Strike Eagle | 3 (2 damaged) | 2 (damaged) |
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon | 3 (1 ,1 ,1 ) | 2 + 1 claim |
Dassault Mirage 2000 | 1 | 1 |
Panavia Tornado IDS | 3 | 2 |
Rotary wing and tilt-rotor losses | ||
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Airframe | Destroyed | Hostile fire |
NSA 407MRH | 1 | - |
Boeing AH-64 Apache | 10 (9 , 1 ) | 3 + 2 claimed |
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk | 3 (1 , 1 , 1 ) | - |
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey | 1 | - |
Bell 214/Huey | 2 | 2 |
SA-365 | 1 (damaged) | 1 |
Mi-24/35 | 1 | 1 |
Mi-8 | 1 | 1 |
Unknown Helicopter type | 1 (1 ) | 1 claim |
Unmanned aerial vehicles losses | ||
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Airframe | Destroyed | Hostile fire |
ES Falco | 1 | 1 |
Seeker 400 | 4 (3 , 1 ) | 4 |
Qasef-1/2 | 3 | 1 + 2 claim |
CAIG Wing Loong/Wing Loong II | 7 (3 , 4 ) | 6 |
CH-4 | 14 | 13 + 1 claim |
RQ-1 / MQ-1 Predator | 6 (3 , 3 ) | 6 |
MQ-1C Gray Eagle | 1 | 1 |
MQ-9 Reaper | 12 | 12 |
Schiebel Camcopter S-100 | 7 | 7 |
Vestel Karayel | 4 | 4 |
Samad drones | 3 | 3 |
RQ-20 Puma | 2 | 2 |
RQ-21 | 1 | |
EMT Luna X-2000 | 1 | 1 |
ScanEagle | 12 ( ) | 10 + 2 claim |
Samad-1 | 2 | 2 |
Unknown/Various drones | 5 (3 , 2 ) | 5 claim |
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Saudi SA 365F Helicopter, January 30, 2017, Al-Hudaydah Coast (on the Medina ship)
UAE MQ-1B Predator UAV, February 14, 2017, Al-Manin, Marib Province
The Yemeni rebel group Ansar Allah (Houthis) released a video on 12 February showing a Luna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that it said was shot down near the Saudi border.
UAE Wing Loong, April 19, 2019, Saada
مأرب - مشاهد للحظة اطلاق واصابة الطائرة التجسسية المقاتلة من نوع "CH4" في مديرية Video of the shootdown
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(help)One of the drones appeared less damaged than the other. The video at one point shows a sticker that correctly bears the Commercial and Government Entity, or CAGE, number for Insitu, the Bingen, Washington, company that builds the drone. Insitu is a subsidiary of Boeing Co