Yemeni Armed Forces managed to down a reconnaissance drone operating for the Saudi-led coalition, military spokesman announced on Wednesday.

Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said that the Yemeni forces launched a surface-to-air missile at the Chinese-made Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and shot it down.

“It was downed while on a hostile act mission in Marib,” Saree said on Wednesday.

CASC Rainbow (Cai Hong, abbreviated as CH) is a series of UAVs developed by the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, an entity under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Yemen has been since March 25, 2015 under aggression by the Saudi-led coalition in a bid to restore power to fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is Riyadh’s ally. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been killed or injured by Saudi-led airstrikes.

The Arab country has been also under harsh blockade b the coalition which includes in addition to the Kingdom, the UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt, Morocco and Sudan.

Source: Agencies