Houthis Shot Down Their Latest MQ-9 Reaper Using Soviet Kub Missile System, Source Says

The Yemeni militia shot down its first MQ-9 over Sanaa in October 2017, mastering the use of a domestic variant of the Soviet 2K12 Kub medium-range surface-to-air missile system and other mostly aging SAMs to destroy the heavy $31 million apiece General Atomics unmanned aerial vehicles.