[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used by a Saudi-led coalition for espionage activities have been downed in Yemen, as revolutionary forces confronting the aggression unveiled its first ever homegrown drone.Military sources said the two intruding spy drones were shot down by the Yemeni army’s air defense forces on Sunday, the Arabic language al-Masirah news network reported.
The sources said the first drone was targeted by the air defense forces in al-Aqaba area in Jawf province while the second one came down in al-Fariza military base in Jizan province.
It came two days after al-Masirah reported that a Jordanian F-16 warplane had been shot down by the ’anti-aircraft defenses’ of Yemen.
Saudi media, however, claimed that the fighter jet crashed due to ’technical reasons’.