The attack by Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels that killed at least six people shows how the Arab world’s poorest country has become one of the world’s top battlefields for drones. But while the US uses American-made drones and the coalition has turned to Chinese suppliers, the manufacturer of the Houthis’ drones in both the air and the sea has been a contentious question. THE IRAN LINKA 2018 report by a United Nations panel of experts on Yemen looked particularly at the Houthis’ Qatef-1 drone. The Qatef-2K, which the Houthis said they used in Thursday’s attack, similarly resembles the Iranian designs. The research group similarly said those drones share “near-identical design and construction characteristics” of Iranian drones.

Source: Egypt Independent January 10, 2019 20:26 UTC