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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Israeli Faces From Earlier Today :-)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:51:04 -0500
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Houthis again shot down a $65 million American drone (MQ-9), last night 
(their local time) above one of their cities, with an even cheaper than 
Shahed 136 Iranian designed ground to air missile. Same missile has been 
shooting down American Navy's MQ-9s for a few years now.

The missile has an interesting story. It doesn't even have a name, and 
was designed by Iranians some years back to help Houthis prevent the 
Saudi aircraft and helicopters from indiscriminate bombing of them.

American and British navy that intercepted their disassembled form 
several times, en route to Yemen, and stole them, called it "358" and 
the name has stuck. But Houthis are now making their own and have their 
own name for them.

I don't think the disassembled parts seized were complete though. 
Iranians wouldn't place all the eggs in the same basket. So Americans I 
think never got a complete picture of what it exactly could and could 
not do, hence their losing a few of these MQ-9s to them, including this 
last night one.

So this little thing has surprised a bunch of people. Hezbollah also 
used two of them recently to destroy expensive Israeli drones. They 
uploaded the filming of the destruction of the second one to social 
media as well :)

Even Russians are reporting this.

So don't get fooled by the size and price of this little jewel. It does 
the job. It is a novel design because it is something in between a 
surface to air missile and a loitering missile like Shahed 136. So its 
operation is quite different from SAM's. All you need is a piece of 
information anywhere in a 100 km radius that some form of enemy aircraft 
has been spotted in the sky. That's all it needs. It is then launched, 
and it goes finds that aircraft by itself almost no matter how long it 
takes cause it can stay in air and search for a long time. It finds the 
target and destroys it by visual proximity explosion. Nothing else is 
needed!

Every enemy's subsonically moving aircraft are easy targets for it. It 
is launched like a Shahed 136 by a little solid fuel jet which then 
detaches and its main fuel which is liquid gas powers it for a long time 
to do its search.

So, cheaper than Shaheds, it is gruesomely lethal to enemy transport 
planes, helicopters, drones, etc. Many Saudi's attack drones and 
helicopters were shot down by them in Yemen during the later part of the 
war between them, thus helping to bring that war to an end.

I don't know what the Navy was thinking to have their $65 million MQ-9 
fly over Houthis AGAIN. Perhaps the previous ones met their demise 
during daytime and Navy thought 358 cannot see in dark :) Hehe :)

Bad surprise! It can.

More information from horse's own mouth:

https://www.twz.com/bizarre-iranian-loitering-sam-shown-to-russian-defense-minister