Yemeni Air Force Carries Out Fresh Attack on King Khalid Air Base, Asir

YemenExtra

M.A.

The Air Force of the Yemeni Army and Popular Committees, on Saturday, conducted retaliatory attacks on an airbase in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Asir, using a squadron of domestically-manufactured combat drones.

A spokesman for the Armed Forces Brigadier, General Yahya Sare’e, said in a brief statement that a number of Qasef-2K drones carried out airstrikes against King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait.

He added that the drones hit fighter jets hangers and runways at the base. He confirmed that all drones successfully hit their designated targets.

Sare’e said the attacks were in response to “the US-Saudi ongoing aggression and siege on Yemen.”

For its part, air traffic watch centers showed disturbance in airplane routes after Qasef-2K attack on the Saudi base, noting that a plane that was about to land at Abha Airport near King Khalid Air Base returned to where it had taken off in Jeddah International Airport. Moreover, an Egyptian Airlines flight has orbited several times before leaving Abha city in conjunction with the attack on King Khalid Air Base.

The Air Force carried out two attacks on Thursday with a number of Qasef-2K against vital targets in King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushayt, where one of the drones hit the base’s communications system while others targeted its fuel tanks and a gas station at the base. All drones successfully hit their designated targets.